Conflict Resolution Through Consensus Building: Experiences from the Dayak Than Community of Sarawak, East Malaysia.
This paper examines conflict management and resolution, focusing specifically on the Dayak Iban society of Sarawak. It argues that conflicts can be substantially reduced if people are socialized to accept their respective roles in the socioeconomic and political structure of society. Conflicts amo...
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Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
1996
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3104/1/Conflict_Resolution_Through_Consensus_Building_Experiences_from_the.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3104/ |
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| Summary: | This paper examines conflict management and resolution, focusing specifically on the Dayak Iban society of
Sarawak. It argues that conflicts can be substantially reduced if people are socialized to accept their
respective roles in the socioeconomic and political structure of society. Conflicts among the communal Ibans
are kept to a bare minimum because their sociocultural values promote harmonious interdependence among
individuals. Those who transgress the community accepted norms of behaviour are quickly ostracized,
reprimanded and made to feel greatly ashamed. Iban acceptance of their positions and roles within the
social, economic and political structure of society has helped to maintain social harmony, economic justice
and political stability. On a higher order, that is in Malaysian society, it is the realization of this sense of
justice that made the NEP acceptable and successful in allocating the benefits of economic growth among the
various ethnic groups in the country. In other words, each community according to its needs as seen by
political leaders. |
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