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Conflict Resolution: Towards Problem Solving, John W. Burton
Conflict Resolution: Towards Problem Solving, John W. Burton
Peace and Conflict Studies
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From earliest times human societies, like those which proceeded them, have been subject to rule by the relatively strong. In contemporary legal terms there have been "those who have a right to rule, and others who have an obligation to obey." Feudal societies, then industrial societies, had structures that reflected these we-they relationships based on relative power.