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Peacemaking is particularly challenging in family conflicts. Deeply held feelings about identity, fair treatment, moral issues, and protecting social capital often cause people in conflict to make self‐defeating decisions. There are, however, techniques that enable mediators, Collaborative Practice professionals, and other peacemakers to overcome the settlement barriers created by these strongly held views. These techniques include those pioneered by psychotherapists using the Internal Family Systems model, which enables parties to see that their strongly held views comprise only part of the constellation of feelings that they have about the conflict.

Key Points for the Family Court Community:
Parents who feel that their role as father or mother is in danger often find it difficult to focus on the children's best interests.
The "rule of reciprocity" causes people who feel wronged to exact even harsher punishment on those who harmed them.
The concept of "social capital" explains why people care so passionately about whether they are treated fairly and about their reputation for fairness.
The Internal Family Systems model helps peacemakers to understand how to work with the parties' ambivalence about settlement versus courtroom vindication.

BUKHARIN'S EXPOSITION OF MARX'S IDEAS HAS INADVERTENTLY SUBVERTED THE BASIC METHODOLOGY OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM & SUBSTITUTED A REIFIED MECHANISM THAT RESEMBLES SYSTEMS ANALYSIS. THE ESSENCE OF BUKHARIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF EQUILIBRIUM WAS EXPLICITLY DRAWN FROM THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS IN HIS ATTEMPT TO BE UNIVERSAL & FREE FROM IDEALISM. BUKHARIN DEFINES A SYSTEM IN A STATE OF EQUILIBRIUM AS ONE THAT CANNOT EMERGE FROM THIS STATE UNLESS OUTSIDE FORCES SUPPLY THE ENERGY. MOVEMENT & HISTORY ARE THE RESULT OF CONFLICT, & CONFLICT REPRESENTS A DISTURBANCE OF EQUILIBRIUM. EQUILIBRIUM MAY BE IN FLUX--ESTABLISHED, DESTROYED, RESTORED ON A NEW BASIS. VARIOUS FORCES THAT EXIST IN OPPOSITION TO EACH OTHER ARE BALANCED FOR A MOMENT IN EXCEPTIONAL CASES, PRODUCING A STATE OF TEMPORARY REST & THE SUPPRESSION OF CONFLICT. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIETY & NATURE CAN BE ONE OF STABLE EQUILIBRIUM (IDEAL), UNSTABLE EQUILIBRIUM WITH POSITIVE INDICATION (GROWTH), OR UNSTABLE EQUILIBRIUM WITH NEGATIVE INDICATION (DECLINE). THE INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS (BETWEEN CLASSES, BETWEEN IDEALS) GROW OUT OF THE STRUCTURAL CONTRADICTIONS BUT ARE NOT THE DECISIVE FORCES THAT DESTROY SOCIETY; THE EXTERNAL EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN THE SOCIETY & THE ENVIRONMENT (TECHNOLOGY) IS THE CRUCIAL BALANCE. BUKHARIN'S SOCIAL DETERMINISM SEPARATES HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY FROM HISTORICAL ACTION & REMOVES THE ELEMENT OF FREEDOM FROM NECESSITY. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IS VIEWED AS A MERE REFLEX OF TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT, & HUMANITY APPEARS MORE OF AN OBSTACLE TO PRODUCTION THAN ITS ULTIMATE SUBJECT OR PURPOSE. MARX'S FAITH IN SOCIETY IS TRANSFORMED BY BUKHARIN INTO A FAITH IN SOCIAL ENGINEERING. A. KARMEN.