Problem
Ideological conflict
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Competing ideologiesIdeological rivalry
Debilitating ideological differences
Lack of ideological unity
Ideological opponents
Ideological dissent
Ideological opposition
Conflicting ideological systems
Nature:
Division between ideologies and within a single ideology may lead to conflict, intolerance, prejudice, repression, rivalry, injustice, and sometimes war. Conflict between religious, political or intellectual ideologies may take the form of propaganda and other tensions or pressures, and may lead to civil war, international war or cold war. It may involve rivalry for ideological influence in Third World countries or other potentially useful or strategic areas.
Broader Problems:
ConflictAntipathyPolitical tensionsUnbridled competition Narrower Problems:
SexismNudismNudismFascismPopulismModernismScientismAnarchismCommunismSocialismScepticismPuritanismUtopianismUnfettered liberalismCapitalismRationalismMaterialismAgnosticismMonasticismFactionalismSectarianismCollectivismCollectivismPostmodernismPostmodernismSecularizationAnti-capitalismMale dominationTotalitarianismPolitical purgesWorld federalismLinguistic purismPolitical conflictReligious conflictPolitical unfitnessIntellectual dissentPolitical radicalismRejection of ritualsUndemocratic pressuresIdeological revolutionInadequacy of religionCommunist subversion in capitalist and neutral countriesLack of a world religionCompulsory indoctrinationDisagreement among expertsIdeological schism in communismReligious and political antagonismPoliticization of technical debatesDisruptive religious fundamentalismUnderprivileged ideological minoritiesUndue religious influence on secular lifeInadequate integration of ideology into societyExcessive claims for human development through sportsPoliticization of intergovernmental organizational debate Related Problems:
SacrilegeValue erosionReligious warDehumanizationAnti-clericalismReligious schismReligious tortureLack of human unityUndue political pressureIrresponsible nationalismFragmented ethical contextsNewspaper and journal propagandaCorruption in organized religionDiscrepancies in human life evaluation Aggravates:
AtheismDistrustMilitarismRevolutionPropagandaDraft evasionWorld anarchyDeconstructionIdeological warSocial conflictPolitical schismMalignant visionsSectarian violencePolitical repressionSubversion Political instabilityInstitutional conflictReligious intimidationExclusion of opposing viewsExclusion of opposing viewsLack of international cooperationPolitically emotive words and termsLack of commitment to common symbolsLack of intersocietal resource channelsForced repatriation of prisoners of warLack of business opposition to the arms raceLack of appreciation of cultural differencesInternational differences in trading practicesWeakness in trade between different economic systemsObstacles to international exchange of cultural materialsAbuse of international cultural, diplomatic and commercial exchangesAlienation of support for international organizations and programmesObstructions to international personnel exchanges and cultural cooperationUnbridled competition among international organizations for scarce resources Strategies:
ProtestingTolerating individual differencesTolerating individual differencesReducing ideological rivalryAppreciating individual differencesFailing to acknowledge differencesAcknowledging differencesReducing differencesExploiting ideological differencesAdvocating ideological conflictRepressing ideological dissension References:
Watts, Michael R: The Dissenters: from the Reformation to the French RevolutionSecond Vatican Council: Gaudium et Spes: Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern WorldPapal Encyclical: Sollicitudo Rei Socialis: On Social Concerns Subject(s):
Societal Problems → Scarcity??Defence → Conflict??
Law → Arbitration??
→ Systems??
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
05.12.2017 – 13:28 CET