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The Ethics of Waaseta and Lobbying

How do we define Politics?

  • What similarities do you each see in our political system and that of Afghanistan?
  • Is lobbying good or bad?
  • Is influence corruption?
  • What do we learn about our own prejudices from this?

Does Every Society Have A Government?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/04/16/what-we-get-wrong-about-lobbying-and-corruption/

The Problem with Modern Nation States

  • How do we define Politics?
  • Politics: those relationships and processes of cooperation, conflicts, and power that are fundamental aspects of human life
  • It's in our every day lives

Models of Political Stability

  • Membership is not necessarily voluntary
  • Ethnocentric distinctions can lead to marginalization of minority societies within the border
  • Maxwell Owusu in Ghana and the creation of a uniquely democratic state

"African democracy may require the integration of indigenous methods of villages co-operation with innovative forms of government combining the power of universal rights with the uniqueness of each district's or nations own customs and respected traditions"

How Do We Define Political Power?

  • Structural fundamentalism- theory that different structures or institutions of a society function to maintain social order and equilibrium
  • 1. Kinship
  • 2. Association
  • 3. Religious beliefs and practices
  • Nuer People and Evans Pritchard

Neo-evolutionary Models

What is Political Power?

POLITICS

  • Band
  • Tribes
  • Chiefdom
  • States
  • How do we define Political Power?
  • Political power: the processes by which people create, compete, and use power to attain goals that are presumed to be for the good of the community
  • Political power is...
  • Structural
  • Action oriented
  • Dynamic

What problems or benefits arise with classifying social groups this way?

Philosophy of Government

  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Believed a dictator was needed
  • John Locke
  • Social Contract
  • But what about societies without a Gov't?
  • Acephelous Society: a society without a governing head
  • Do they still have politics?

What did We Learn Today?

  • Gov'ts are not universal features of human existence
  • Politics is a dynamic and cooperative field in social relations
  • Neither violence nor non-violence are inevitable
  • They are learned in specific social and historical concepts
  • Sometimes in the name of peace we fail to challenge the status quo

Is Restoring Harmony Always the Best Way?

conflict, cooperation, and power relations

How do people avoid cycles of aggression, brutality, and war?

What is Violence?

Why do some Societies Seem More Violent Than Others

  • Does Harmony Ideology maintain the status quo?
  • Applied Dispute Management
  • Zapotec "a bad compromise is better than a good fight"
  • Are we better off with Hilary or a third party candidate?

Semai

  • Disputes are about...
  • Decision making
  • Social relations
  • Rules
  • Dividing or joining people together

Adjudication

Yanomamo

Mediation

  • Adjudication: the legal process by which an individual or council with socially recognized authority intervenes in a dispute and unilaterally makes a decision
  • Kpelle use "moot courts" to solve disputes
  • avoids harsh penalties
  • negotiates solutions acceptable to all

  • How do you define violence or a violent act?
  • What is worse an act of meaningless violence or violence in the name of a cause? Why?
  • When and how do we believe violence is culturally sanctions?

  • Native South Americans located in South America
  • Were thought to be "violent in nature" according to some film crews
  • Were actually warm and caring people who occasionally had to defend themselves
  • Only reacted violently due to prospectors taking their land

  • Violence: The use of force to harm someone or something
  • What is the..
  • intention
  • Rationality
  • Legitimacy
  • Neither violence Nor non violence is an inevitable part of society
  • Violence follows cultural patterns, rules and ethical codes
  • Egalitarian swiden farmers in Malaysian rainforests.
  • Socialized by their society to be non-violent
  • Persuah: not causing trouble for others
  • Punan condition that makes someone unhappy
  • Socialized to be non-violent, but trained to kill by counterinsurgency
  • Is it our upbringing that determines if we are violent or the circumstances we are put in or both?
  • Mediation: a third party that intervenes in a dispute to help the parties reach an agreement
  • Ho'oponopono; "setting right"
  • Hawaiian based belief that disputes involve negative entanglements and setting things right spiritually will lead directly to physical and interpersonal healing

Negotiation

  • Negotiation: a form of dispute management in which the parties themselves reach a decision jointly
  • Phillip Gulliver observed in Tanzania the cultural importance of negotiation especially concerning water rights
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