Análisis del significado de conflicto en un grupo de jóvenes de la Universidad del Rosario desde el Modelo Relacional Simbólico

Abstract

This investigation s purpose is to define and reflect about conflict conceptions as reported by a group of young people from the Universidad del Rosario identifying if they consider the bond and symbolic categories of Relational Symbolic Model: confidence, justice and hope. Semi-structure interviews were done which were analyzed in their content. It could be established that the predominant conception about conflict was that it is something that must not happen or must be avoided. In general, conflict is understood as a confrontation or clash. Nobody considered the bond as a fundamental or vital element of conflict. It could be concluded that conflict is a given in people s relationships. The importance of the bond in terms of generational encounters, lineage, genres, a comfort zone, and a hope and justice area where gifts are given and moral compromises had is not present in any conflict definitions. These aspects show the necessity to admit the bond and symbolic fundamentals of the model, as values and strengths that must be introduced within the daily life of the Colombian population for the construction of a peaceful culture. This is done through education in all layers in a short term with early semester students because of the role they will have as professionals. They would be social, business, spiritual, politics and work leaders. These students are in a propitious stage for a comprehensive education which stimulate and strengthen the bond as a vital crux of relationships with its symbolic categories (hope, justice and confidence). This bond should become a conscious part of personal, familiar and social relationships. This could be indispensable to transform the vision of conflict, in such way that it stops to be negative, not desired. Instead of this, it should become a part of life with an opportunity to grow, know, generate and regenerate bonds. Finally, the creation of a research line is proposed that extends the research to other populations of young people of different social-economic and cultural backgrounds, including those who have been affected directly or indirectly by the Colombian violence.