Handbook of International Negotiation by Mauro Galluccio

Author:Mauro Galluccio
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

In such traumatised communities, the ‘other’ can be seen as a threat and not as another human being with the similar feelings and needs as oneself. Having been on the receiving end of a dehumanisation process which deprived them of a sense of being human in the eyes of their oppressors, they may replicate this in their violence over the ‘other’ if and when conditions require it or allow it. Any threat to such a community’s existence will easily trigger off feelings of fear and the threat of annihilation. All ‘others’ will be judged by who they stand for: ‘If you are not with us, you are against us’. The stage is set potentially for another round of violence.

Traumatised Israeli communities, when fearful of being attacked or of losing land they consider belongs to them, on religious grounds, may re-enact similar scenarios with the Palestinians: the latter can easily become the Nazis of their parents’ nightmares, a nightmare that led to the creation of Israel for and by the survivors of the Holocaust.

These are some of the possible trauma-related scenarios that may be brought to international negotiators; in such cases, an understanding of the potential vulnerability of those who may be attending or being represented needs to be kept in mind. In such cases it may help to use a cooperative approach if at all possible and to remember that what a traumatised individual cannot bear is to feel helpless or humiliated.

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