This essay, written in Japanese, is an attempt to construct an integrated framework for analyzing and engaging multi-faceted meanings of history that correspond to different communal experiences of social conflict. The concept of conflict history is introduced to describe a worldview of a conflict party in search of a coherent explanation of the conflict’s origin, evolution, and significance. Four interconnected approaches to conflict history – orthodox, different, mediative, and alternative – are explored to link the factual to the counterfactual, the manifest to the potential in an attempt to expand the scope of historical inquiry. This exercise of theory-building draws on the author’s applied practice in conflict resolution dialogues on US-Pakistan relations, as well as on the Taiwan Strait. It examines working hypotheses emerging from his field experience from sociological, psychoanalytic, and other social scientific perspectives. (An English version forthcoming.)
- conflict,
- peace,
- history,
- identity,
- experiential learning,
- Taiwan,
- China,
- Pakistan
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tatsushi_arai/4/