I' working in Baketik, a Peace Centre site in Arantzazu (basque Country).
The approach that Baketik wishes to contribute has its key element in the search for an ethical management of conflicts. This is the new approach it brings, and which distinguishes it. One of its assumptions is that destructive conflicts do not necessarily have a solution or resolution, they have a management. ‘Management’ means transforming something through good work. We will explain this good work later on, but for the moment we can say that this proposal for ethical management consists of three steps. The first involves making an ethical review of the bases on which we approach conflicts. The second steps invites people to look inwards, in terms of how they experience the conflict. The third encourages people to undertake an interpersonal type of work ‘outwards’, i.e the management of the conflict. All this will be called “comprehension or ethical management of conflicts” or simply “ethical management”.