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    1. The document presents a general theory on disputes and conflicts with three main premises: that democratic societies have no conflicts, only disputes, while authoritarian regimes only experience conflicts. National states can transform conflicts into disputes. 2. Conflicts are issues that lack a legitimate forum for resolution, while disputes have recognized forums meeting criteria like transparency. 3. Democracies promote differences and have processes to maintain peace, while authoritarian regimes suppress issues seen as challenges to the state. National states can create policies to transform inter-state conflicts into dispute management systems.

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    1. The document presents a general theory on disputes and conflicts with three main premises: that democratic societies have no conflicts, only disputes, while authoritarian regimes only experience conflicts. National states can transform conflicts into disputes. 2. Conflicts are issues that lack a legitimate forum for resolution, while disputes have recognized forums meeting criteria like transparency. 3. Democracies promote differences and have processes to maintain peace, while authoritarian regimes suppress issues seen as challenges to the state. National states can create policies to transform inter-state conflicts into dispute management systems.

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    A General Theory on Disputes

    and Conflicts
    Raymond Shonholtz, General Theory on Disputes
    and Conflicts, A, 2003 J. Disp. Resol. (2003)
    The General Theory on
    Disputes and conflicts
    raises three premises

    1. There are no conflicts in democratic society


    2. In authoritarian regimes there are only
    conflicts, no disputes.
    3. National states can transform conflicts into
    disputes.
    CONFLICTS

    In this article, conflicts are defined as


    those issues that lack a legitimate,
    reliable, transparent, non-arbitrary
    forum for the peaceful settlement of
    differences.
    Disputes
    Disputes, conversely, are
    pre-described as having
    recognized forums for their
    expression and resolution
    that meet the above criteria.
    1. THERE ARE NO
    CONFLICTS IN
    DEMOCRATIC
    SOCIETY
    Democracy, by its very ideology,
    actively promotes differences by
    encouraging diverse opinion

    The democratic principles are now


    universally recognized as simply
    stated in the Preamble to the United
    Statese used as lectures, speeches,
    reports, and more.

    In democratic society, the goal is to


    create through democratic rocesses
    to maintain peace and tranquility.
    Conflictual conditions
    present an opportunity to
    create new policies,
    institutions, mechanisms,
    professions, and
    administrations that
    transform such conditions
    into manageable disputes.
    2 . THE R E AR E O NLY
    C O NF LI C TS AND
    P O LI TI C I Z E D
    S Y S TE M S O F
    S E TTLE M E N T I N
    A U THO R I TAR I AN
    REGIMES
    Under authoritarian regimes, While, in democratic rule of law
    issues are treated as conflicts systems, some disputes may have
    because they are managed a political dimension, rarely does
    through forms of repression, an issue threaten the efficacy of
    violence, avoidance, or the foundation of governmment.
    ideology.
    To survive, authoritarian regimes
    must suppress issues that challenge
    the state.
    The corruption of institutional mechanisms for the management of differences may be an
    effect.
    Evolving democracies have the
    heavy burden of undoing the
    pervasive corruption
    sponsored by an authoritarian
    regime's practice of
    suppressing issues and
    manipulating conflict.
    3. National States can transform
    conflicts into disputes.
    "Nation states are always in a
    state of inter-state conflict
    unless they create policies
    (treaties) that transform all or
    components of a conflict into a
    dispute management system"

    The World Trade Organization has an arbitrating methodology for trade disputes placed
    before it by member states called the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment
    Disputes (ICSID). ICSID, at http://www.worldbank.org/icsid/ (last visited Nov. 22, 2003)
    CONCLUSION
    One of the best ways to solve problems
    or transform a conflict into a dispute is to
    use democracy.

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