Conflicts with Religious or Worldview Dimensions: Why They Matter and How to Engage Them

Authors

Michelle LeBaron, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Maged Senbel, UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP)

Abstract

This Article discusses conflicts with religious or worldview dimensions, and why creative approaches are uniquely suited to intervening in them. Conflicts centered around identity, cosmology, and other aspects of worldviews need tools that reach beyond presenting logic and traditional conflict intervention approaches to parties' "grammars of being." "Grammars of being" refer to structural ideas and values below the surface of conscious awareness that influence beliefs, opinions, and actions, just as grammar organizes written or spoken language. Arts-based strategies are promising because they offer aesthetic, embodied pathways that are often missed in more traditional interventions. Case examples drawn from our and others' work illustrate the potential of these strategies. The Article concludes with a discussion of implications for theory and practice of experiential, arts-based approaches in worldview conflict analysis and intervention.

Keywords

Education Law, Public Education, Religion and the Law, Science and Technology Law, Legal Profession

Disciplines

Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Education Law | Law | Legal Profession | Science and Technology Law

Recommended Citation

Michelle LeBaron & Maged Senbel, Conflicts with Religious or Worldview Dimensions: Why They Matter and How to Engage Them, 23 Cardozo J. Conflict Resol. 301 (2022).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cjcr/vol23/iss2/2