An anthropological view of human conflicts

Human conflicts are constitutive elements of human nature and the exercise of sociability of each individual. To get closer to its meaning, nature, scope and approach, it is necessary to lay the foundations of its comprehension that transcend the traditional conception, according to which, conflict is negatively understood as an inevitable situation in which power relations imply the only form for resolution. In this way, it is intended to propose the new conception about the conflict that lays the foundations of a new epistemology that, based on cooperation and in a reconstructive model, allows addressing the conflict by seeking its transformation from the application of two important categories: the recognition and the empowerment. Thus, conflict is understood not only as constitutive, but also as fundamental and necessary for the person and for human relationships, insofar as it becomes a learning situation that builds plurality making it necessary, in the personal, family, social and educational, the construction of a pedagogy of conflict.