THE PROCESS OF INSTITUTIONALIZING SOCIAL CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The article examines the process of institutionalization of Social Conflict Management. Social conflicts are processes aimed at changing public decisions or making new decisions. In most cases, the goal is to create government actions for social regulation, administrative processes, rules or regulations that streamline the activities and interventions of state actors as well as private actors, such as the activities of extractive industries. Thus, government decisions or public policies are the main causes of disputes arising from conflicts. A significant part of the production cycle of public policy is crossed by public disputes with the active participation of the media and communication platforms. In open and democratic societies, public space is the meaning of government, so the discussion takes place in an open light. On the contrary, in authoritarian societies, discussion is suppressed, disputes are hushed up, and conflicts end in violence. However, all these efforts and development have not been enough to reverse, redirect and transform the complex, intense, recurring conflicts that are rooted in true processes of development and social coexistence. This gives us a hint that conflicts need to be dealt with in parallel, urgently promoting social coexistence, respect, and democratic practices. We can then strive for a state policy of conflict transformation, which is the result of an analytical, reflexive and consensual process – and therefore with confidence – on how to conduct dialogue and organize ourselves as a country in order to directly influence the problems and structural causes that continue to give rise to social conflicts.