Conflict

Based on the encyclopedia, Wikipedia, conflict is an opposition of people, force or other entities. It says conflict has various types which are group conflict, emotional conflict, workplace conflict and more. As there are many types of conflict, there are number of causes of conflict. Conflict can be caused by different reasons which are having different expectation, disagreement and fighting over the same object.

Many people tend to have conflict with whom they are closed to, because of their expectation toward the others. This could means both that it is because of having different expectation or higher expectation which would likely end up having conflict with disappointment. As an instance, parents may have different expectation from their kids on kids’ future, education and any other matters. Parents may expect their children to do well in school and get high results in order to be successful in the future by having good education. However, children may believe that having more real experience and entering the industry wherever they want to work in as soon as possible are more beneficial and efficient for their future than studying. Then this different expectation would lead them to argue and have conflict.

Other than having different expectation, disagreement is another reason to cause conflict. Disagreement on opinions or facts could lead people to have conflict. When there are more than two people are taking in action or making decision together, conflict may arise easily due to the different ideas and beliefs of individuals. Individuals have different views, opinions and beliefs and these are mostly built and affected by their environment of childhood. Therefore, as an example, when more than two or two people are going for dinner, they might have different preference for food, place and cost. Some may want to have Japanese and others might prefer Chinese food. Then because of the different opinion due to different taste for food, it may raise conflict between them in making up their mind where to go. Some more, even if finally they all agreed to go to a restaurant, this may still leave emotional conflict among themselves.

Fighting over the same object would be one of the factors that cause conflict. In human’s life, competition cannot be missed. Whenever and wherever we are, we will somehow get to experience competition with others in order to accomplish what we want. When if more than one person is pursuing for one thing, there will be conflicts between them. This is due to the reality that only one person can achieve or get that what they want and they will fight for it to get it rather than let others to take it from themselves. Moreover, human beings are naturally born with greed. Even conflicts from fighting over an object can be arisen from competitive mind, but not only because they desire. For example, students fighting for top place in their class in exam would be fighting for something that they desire. However, if two guys were encouraged to fight over a girl because of competitive mind, the conflict would be most likely occurred because of their greedy.

According to the causes of conflict which were elaborated above, I believe that conflict can be more controlled by compromise and taking it easy. This is because the factors mentioned earlier were having different expectation and disagreement which could be solved by compromising and understanding each other. The last point which is fighting over same object could be overcome by compromising, but not much as expectation and disagreement.