Be Smart to Manage Conflicts

Villa Taman Eden 1, Kaliurang

March 27 – 29, 2015

Hearing the word ‘conflict’, most people define a problem that should be avoided, something bringing negative impact and will be ended with violence. Actually, conflict could bring positive impact for our life. Based on the limited knowledge about conflict among students, Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta held a training on Conflict Management with a topic  of “Be Smart to Manage Conflicts “, on March 27 – 27, 2015 in Villa Taman Eden 1, Kaliurang.

The training was attended by 30 participants from various universities in Yogyakarta. The speakers  delivering the materials are Rev. Wahju Satria Wibowo,M.Hum (UKDW), Romo. Baskara T. Wardaya, Rev. Paulus Hartono, M. Min, and Hamzah Wahyudin, SH from Legal Aids Institution (LBH) Yogyakarta.

 

The training is started with introductory material conveyed by Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta team and continued by a session to understand personal conflict potencies delivered by Rev. Wahju Satria Wibowo, M.Hum. In this session he explained that in fact, many people judge a person or group just based on perception or 'stereotypes'. It often causes misunderstandings among them. Rev. Wahju also said that everyone has epistemology ability, an ability to process information to make an understanding.

Pastor Baskoro told further about “Hope of Peaceful Life”. When someone wants to be a 'peacemaker', s/he should be ready with all risks and having courage and hope. Pastor Baskoro also mentioned some world peacemaker figures, such as Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Alfred Nobel, Pope, Chico Mendes and many other figures mentioned by participants.

Pdt. Paulus Hartono, M. Min, talked about differences between conflict and violence. Violence will lead to conflict and conflict  does not always lead to violence. Next, participants were trained how to map symptoms of conflict, to analyze conflict, and to reach final step for conflict resolution. To get a better understanding how to analyze conflict and conflict resolution, the participants were invited to perform a role-play. At first, the participants were divided into four groups and asked to analyze the conflict and how to solve it. At last, the discussion of each group were performed in a short drama.  The drama helped participants to see obviously the causes of a conflict  that’s helpful to get the solution.

The last day of training emphasized on how to handle legal process. Legal Aids Institute (LBH) Yogyakarta sent Hamzah Wahyudin, SH., as the representative. He explained procedures how to make indictment to police that will be processed after completing  five requirements of evidences  including; 1) witness (must be more than one person), 2) clues/indications, 3) description of the accused, 4) testimony (from the hospital as evidence of persecution), and 4)  expert’s testimony.

Some action plans that participants want to do are sharing the experience to friends and other communities, doing a session and environmental action, having a further discussion with LBH  for deeper study on conflict resolution. (ITM)