Social and Personal Context of Conflict

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL CONTEXT OF CONFLICT

A QUESTIONNAIRE

In partial fulfilment

Of the requirements in Reconciliation and Peacemaking

At the Cornerstone Institute

By

Alain le Sueur

8 February 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS

    1. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONNAIRE……………………………3

    2. CONCLUSION…………………………………………………..5

    3. BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………………...6

    1. I was walking my Jack Russell, Bullet, about 10 days before this Questionnaire’s due date. So it happened quite recently. I was passing a near by church, and there was a man walking his two poodle puppies. They were not on leads and the one came after my Jack Russell and bit my Jack Russell’s tail and I lashed out at the puppy with a small whip which I always take with me in case of big dogs, but with the recent motor car accident which my brother was in had left me very emotionally unstable. I missed the dog on purpose to give it a fight and to chase it away. But the owner was upset by this and said to me that I can’t lash out at his dog, it is only a puppy. This made me furious and I said about three times over why aren’t your dogs on a lead, it is the law. He finally said that he is the Pastor of the church and this was the church grounds, and if I had a problem with that I must walk my dog somewhere else. So I turned around and headed back to the street leaving the church grounds. When I had got back home my mind kept running over what had happened at the church. After visiting my brother at the hospital I went back to the church grounds to see if I could find his house. I wanted to apologise to him on how the situation was carried out. None of the doors I rang could help me on where the Pastor of the church lives. Disappointed I went back home. The next day was Sunday and I thought now is my opportunity to say that I’m sorry. I walked to the church and the service had just finished and I saw a old man at the entrance of the church building. I went to him told him the story and...