Abstract
Conflicts are ubiquitous in cities. Contemporary urban conflicts have been noted for their radical discontent. In the city, many of these conflicts are also spatial in nature and can revolve around differences of interest, recognition, and values. Because these conflicts cannot fester indefinitely without doing permanent damage to civic solidarity, some kind of conflict resolution is required. However, how one elects to resolve a conflict is an ethical choice. And this specific choice also has its corresponding moral consequences. In this chapter, consensus building and the ethical compromise are discussed as plausible options for conflict resolution. For the former, the focus is on the roles and impacts of collaborative dialogues, and for the latter, emphasis is given to the distinction between the integrative and the distributive compromise.
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Chan, J.K.H. (2019). Conflict. In: Urban Ethics in the Anthropocene. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0308-1_4
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