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Synopsis
Normative conflicts center on fundamental disagreements over issues of public morality and the identity of a society. In thinking about normative conflicts on a global scale, two principal questions arise. First, are there common characteristics of such conflicts worldwide? Second, which institutions polarize such conflicts and which can serve to m
Synopsis
This report is the result of years of cooperation between the Club of Rome and the Bertelsmann Science Foundation. It gives a better understanding of the limits to social cohesion and the increasing role of intermediate institutions or of individual leaders in the mediation of normative conflicts.