D. Paul Riley, For The Guardian

Actually, I was watching the very funny and extremely well written show 'Fraser' on T.V. the other day, and Calsey Grammer who plays the part of Dr. Fraser Crane so brilliantly, used the phrase which is in fact the title of this article, which I immediately wrote down. In his role of Dr. Crane, he suggested to a caller to his radio show, that she try to 'Dissolve Differences with Discussion'. Boy oh boy, if only we could all take that sound advice to heart, we'd actually cut out so much of the hideous violence which permeates world society today at the beginning of the 21st century.

In The Bahamas where I live, unfortunately we are experiencing a whole lot of violence among the young people, who it would appear are not, for the most part, able to solve conflicts, without resorting to violence. Recently, several altercations at high schools have ended tragically with young people dead, as a direct result of this senseless violence among teenagers at school level.

It's high time, that ALL of the young people of The Bahamas were taught classes by professionals in 'Conflict Resolution Skills', so that they will indeed be equipped, to instead of resorting to physical violence, have the necessary skills to 'Dissolve Differences with Discussion' This is after all how intelligent, civilized, and sane people resolve conflicts of any sort when they arise.

Let's face it, as we travel through life, we will of course have many differences of opinion with others. However, there's a right way and a wrong way to solve these differences. The correct way, as outlined here today, is to 'Dissolve Differences with Discussion'.

Of course, before we even begin to teach people young and old 'Conflict Resolution Skills'; we must FIRST raise their level of self-esteem. That's right, people young and old with low self-esteem, who don't really like themself deep down within their subconscious, are the first to lash out physically at others when conflicts of one sort or another arise. When we raise a person's self-image, thus assisting that person to really love, understand, and respect himself or herself; then and only then will he or she be not so inclined to physically, and indeed violently lash out at others whom they don't agree with, or who 'Niggle' them in any way.

So, the authorities, the powers that be, need of necessity to IMMEDIATELY introduce classes in building self-esteem in young people, followed by 'Conflict Resolution Skills' classes, both obviously facilitated by Professionals who really know what they're doing. This will quite definitely cut out a large amount of the violence we unfortunately observe, with many of the youth of the country.

THINK ABOUT IT!

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