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Dialogues can be viewed as one means — if not the classical one — of dealing constructively with conflicts. As one popular formula puts it: “As long as you’re talking, you can’t be shooting”. “What better method is there of resolving a contentious issue”, so runs another down-to-earth, commonsense observation, “than through an honest exchange of views?” “And”, says discourse ethics, “what other way is there of finding lasting solutions to the numerous political-cum-moral conflicts in an interdependent and pluralistic world, than through “practical discourse between the affected parties” (Apel 1990).
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Ropers, N. (2004). From Resolution to Transformation: The Role of Dialogue Projects. In: Austin, A., Fischer, M., Ropers, N. (eds) Transforming Ethnopolitical Conflict. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-05642-3_13
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