Conflicts/Negotiation of Communication in Public Setting

Introduction

Moreover, the centrality of communication in politics causes problems ethical, real or perceived, which ultimately may contribute to degrade both the communication process as the public space itself. Conflict situations constantly occur day in and day out. Political Communication is an emerging science that moves between a scientific and academic version and a version applied close to the practical and pragmatic political action.

The word conflict is ambiguous and mobile, as the context may have different interpretations, but is frequently used the definition of this concept are Wilmot & Jouyce (2007): conflict is an interaction of interdependent people who perceive incompatible goals and interference from each other to achieve these goals.

The resolution of conflicts is, therefore, that branch of political science that attempt to resolve the antagonisms that arise at both the local and global, not excluding violence as one of its methods, basing his analysis on the social the place where the conflict occurs. In order describe the conflict or negotiation in communication in public settings, the example of Irish Free State can describe it in a better way (Augsburger, pp 78-90).

The Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence, Anglo-Irish War and Tan refer to the guerrilla campaign that led the Irish Republican Army (IRA) against the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), the British Army and the Black and Tans in Ireland, from January 1919 to July 1921. The conflict began after the declaration of independence of the Irish Republic. Both sides accepted a cease-fire in July 1921 which led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. This agreement ended the British rule over much of Ireland and after a transition period of ten months supervised by a provisional government, the Irish Free State was established. However, six counties north chose to remain in the UK as' Northern Ireland with their own parliament. After the cease-fire, political violence and religious (between Republicans and Loyalists, and between Catholics and Protestants) continued in Northern Ireland while the Irish Free State plunged into a civil war between Supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (Siman, pp 12-34).

Extension of violence

The Volunteers began to attack the British government buildings, making raids for weapons and money and to kill prominent members of the British administration. The first of them was the magistrate John C. Milling shot in Westport, for having sent Volunteers in prison for unauthorized assembly and training. The rebels imitated the tactics used by the Boers of South Africa during their uprising against the British at the beginning of the century: fast attacks and conducted in civilian clothes. While some Republican leaders like Eamon de Valera favored a conventional struggle to legitimize the new republic to the world, Michael Collins and a large majority of the IRA opposed these tactics they considered to be responsible for the debacle of 1916. Others, like Arthur Griffith preferred a campaign of civil disobedience instead of an armed struggle. Violence was indeed unpopular among the population, but the ...