Duluth, Minnesota (OpEdNews) August 15, 2011: Liberals have been turning somersaults trying to understand President Obama. But Donna Hicks' new book DIGNITY: THE ESSENTAIL ROLE IT PLAYS IN RESOLVING CONFLICTS (Yale University Press, 2011) may help us better understand President Obama.
By happy coincidence, her book has been published during the presidency of a president who strongly fancies himself as a would-be resolver of conflicts. In addition, he excels is communicating his regard for the dignity of different people, including such recalcitrant rascals as Tea Party Republicans. However, if President Obama were to examine Hicks' ten values and qualities that she regards as essential for dignity, he might not find any to accuse himself of not manifesting toward the Tea Party Republicans in the recent debate about raising the debt ceiling. In short, Obama probably manifested no deficiency with respect to her ten values and qualities.
In the final analysis, I have no serious quarrel with any of her ten essential elements of dignity as prescriptions for would-be interveners to follow in their interventions in conflicts:
(1) acceptance of identity
(2) inclusion
(3) safety
(4) acknowledgment
(5) recognition
(6) fairness
(7) benefit of the doubt
(8) understanding
(9) independence
(10) accountability.
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