Encounters with the "Other"

<p>Barry Oshry has a lifetime's experience of working&nbsp;with social and organizational systems.</p><p>Here he explains how we can understand - and avoid&nbsp;- the "catastrophes" that continue to occur when&nbsp;one culture meets another - when demagogues sell&nbsp;us messages of superiority or purity in the face of&nbsp;cultural difference.</p><p>Algeria ~ Armenia ~ Bosnia ~ Cambodia ~ Congo&nbsp;~ Darfur ~ East Timor ~ The Holdomor ~ TheHolocaust ~ Myanmar ~ Palestine ~ Rwanda...</p><p>He explains how the two conventional solutions to&nbsp;encountering the "other" - Purity and Tolerance -&nbsp;both exact a terrible cost on the oppressed while diminishing the humanity of the oppressors.</p><p>And he offers us a third possibility, one that requires&nbsp;a fundamental transformation in how we see and&nbsp;experience one another. This transformation requires&nbsp;us to understand that the interaction patterns we&nbsp;fall into shape the way we see and experience one&nbsp;another. Change the pattern of interaction and our&nbsp;experiences of one another will change...</p><p>The possibility of "Power and Love", working&nbsp;together and tempering one another, will emerge.</p>