Conflict

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  Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema

  • Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes, Mónica Dias, Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes, Mónica Dias, Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes, Mónica Dias(Authors)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • Palgrave Macmillan

    (Publisher)

  One of the striking aspects of this very condition, one that translates an essential equality among human beings, is that it is so plural in nature that it becomes arduous to propose typologies comprehensive enough to describe and explain all the different Conflicts that have beleaguered humanity throughout history. Moreover, the very patterns of Conflict are in permanent transformation, in tune with ever-changing definitions of power, place, human being. Technological development also adds to the complexity of determining what Conflict is. This collection of essays brings together different perspectives and angles of analysis, displaying different notions of ‘Conflict’ related to time and geography. Consequently, the volume embraces the broadest definition of Conflict as ‘a situation in which two or more parties seek to undermine each other because they have incompatible goals, competing interests, or fundamentally different values. In this sense, Conflict is a natural part of everyday life rather than an exceptional circumstance’ (Baker 2006, p. 1). ‘Conflict’—and, a fortiori, ‘post-Conflict’—is a fluid, controversial concept, with imprecise borders and difficult to map. From the onset, Conflict inhabits the human heart: torn between nature and culture, biology and intellect, human beings are often at war with themselves. In ‘Civilization and its Discontents’, Freud proposes three main causes that produce suffering and lead to the belief that happiness was not on the agenda of the ‘Creation’: We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other. (Freud 2005, p

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  New Technologies and Branding

  • Philippe Sachetti, Thibaud Zuppinger(Authors)
  • 2018(Publication Date)
  • Wiley-ISTE

    (Publisher)

  2.2. What is a Conflict?

  If we follow what is indicated by its etymology, Conflict is a moment of imbalance between two forces. By defining it as such, we then need to distinguish it from violence and hostility.

  “In actual fact, it is the causes of Conflict – hatred and envy, misery and lust – that are truly the elements of dissociation. Once Conflict has erupted for one of these reasons, it is in fact a movement of protection against the separating dualism” [SIM 15, pp. 19–20].

  Conflict is the breakdown of a state of hostility by any one of the parties that begins to take action.

  A crisis that starts a Conflict is therefore not an accident. It proceeds from a decision to break from the status quo, and an intention to make a lasting or definitive change to the context that created it. Conflict progresses like many diseases by alternating between periods of malignancy or crisis (where the signs of hostility are paroxysmal) and periods of calm or remission.

  If the events that gave rise to the Conflict do not disappear completely, the Conflict will not go away. Therefore, a Brand that is drawn into a Conflict cannot hope to muzzle its critics forever. At most, it can eliminate the causes of the Conflict, change its practices or soften its positions, appease its assailants, etc., but it cannot be certain that the Conflict will not re-emerge if nothing is changed at the end of a period of crisis.

  Conflicts are primarily based on a question of dynamics. Pointing out a simple situation of contrast is not enough when talking about Conflict. We would then simply remain in a stage of latent hostility. The mere existence of a difference is not a Conflict. A simple contrast or opposition of values is not a Conflict.

  2.3. When is there a Conflict?

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  Crafting Category Romance

  • Amy Lane(Author)
  • 2020(Publication Date)
  • DSP Creatives

    (Publisher)

  It’s important to know enough about Conflict to meet reader expectations, and enough about what’s expected to throw in a surprise or two to keep things fresh. But more than that, a good writer is aware of not just Conflict, but of the degree of Conflict. Small Conflicts make for fun banter. Giant Conflicts make the wedge that threatens to drive our characters apart. Medium Conflicts can be practice to overcome the larger ones.

  Keeping the friction in balance is the difference between engaging a reader and frightening them away, and that’s why it’s important to identify and use the types of Conflicts that appear naturally, using romance tropes.

  Keep things lively—not irritating.    

  The Inside and the Outside

  There are essentially two kinds of Conflict: internal and external, the beast within and the wrecking balls of God without.

  The important thing to remember about these Conflicts is that they are not separate. In fact, in really well-written fiction, they work together to affect character transformation, which is the heart of romance and romantic fiction. But since good romance starts with character, the central Conflict of the story has to start with character too. So that’s where we’ll start.

   

  Internal Conflict: The Beast Within

  Romance typically starts with characters in emotional, if not situational, stasis. Change arrives in the form of an inciting event. With category romance’s shortened timeline, it’s helpful if the inciting event is the other character. Their collision results in Conflict as they struggle to change inwardly in order to accept the change that this other person makes in their lives. No matter what the plot tropes, it’s this inward battle that makes up the characters’ internal Conflict .

  Sources of internal Conflict vary—and often they depend on the character itself. The list of character tropes is a place to start. The Tragic Past, the Orphan, Cinderella, the Sexual Butterfly, the Protector—each one of those characters obviously comes with their own baggage, and all of it is fighting the good fight in this poor character’s soul.

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