A Movement From The East

A Discussion on Conflict Management

(A Follow-up Group)

APMD Campus Hall, April 17, 2015

On April 17, 2015, APMD campus became a host of conflict management discussion. This activity pioneered by Imanuel (APMD), Imelda (Stikes Bethesda), Fred and Ronny (UGM). They are students who are eager to share the importance of being a peacemaker among students. That is why the event was held as a forum to share experiences on how to manage conflicts wisely. Lasting since 5 PM until 8.30 PM, the  student participants showed great enthusiasm.

Imelda opened the forum by inviting participants to introduce themselves to other participants, then Indah briefly introduced what Stube-HEMAT is. To create familiarity atmosphere, Nuel delivered a fun game and started the discussion. The material about understanding and identification of conflict was conveyed by Ronny. In his presentation, Rony assessed that a conflict may occur from individual or group interest, caused by seizure of natural resources for example. Start from the issue, Ronny invited participants to map and analyze the conflict. A complete analysis and valid data will help the mediation process between both conflicting parties. The method used to assist in mapping the conflict is taken from onion analogy and conflict tree.

Furthermore, Fred applied a role-play to understand the phase of conflict and how to solve it. The role play was played by three groups and the formulation analysis and list of alternative conflict resolution were explored and implemented, until all phases can be clearly understood by participants.

Some cases proposed by each group are conflict between students and lecturers who are difficult to meet for any reasons, domestic conflict between parents and children about kids delinquency, and third-person conflict between couples that triggers a fight.

This sharing experience is a follow-up activity of Conflict Management training conducted Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta a few days ago. The event was attended by 25 students from various campuses, such as Stikes Bethesda, UKDW, UKSW Salatiga, STMIK AMIKOM, ITY, UAD, UIN Sunan Kalidjaga, STPMD APMD, INSTIPER, UGM, STTNAS, UWMY, UST and activists from YMCA. The next plan of this group is discussing advocacy process conflicts with LBH Yogyakarta. (PIAF)