Many global and political conflicts involve differences in worldviews. As our world grows increasingly interconnected, and as differences in identity—and the politics of identity—play an increasingly prominent role in our cultural discourse, these differences become harder than ever to ignore. Yet worldviews remain poorly understood, and traditional methods of interest-based negotiation are insufficient to address this dimension of conflict, which implicates core aspects of who we are, what we believe, and how we make meaning in the world. In this article, we examine what worldviews are, why they matter, and how clashes of worldviews can impede conflict resolution. We offer strategies and tactics to overcome these obstacles, drawing on scholarship in conflict management, social identity theory, relational identity theory, and moral psychology. Overcoming the clash of worldviews requires that we learn to build bridges across our respective worldviews, acknowledging each party’s relationship to their beliefs and values while emphasizing similarities to build a common identity that transcends our respective differences.

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冲突中的世界观：通过谈判弥合分歧

许多全球和政治冲突都涉及世界观的差异。随着我们的世界变得越来越相互联系，以及身份差异——以及身份政治——在我们的文化话语中扮演着越来越重要的角色，这些差异变得比以往任何时候都更难以忽视。然而，人们对世界观仍然知之甚少，传统的基于利益的谈判方法不足以解决这一冲突维度，这涉及到我们是谁、我们相信什么以及我们如何在世界上创造意义等核心方面。在本文中，我们将研究什么是世界观，它们为何重要，以及世界观的冲突如何阻碍冲突的解决。我们利用冲突管理、社会认同理论、关系认同理论和道德心理学方面的学术成果，提供克服这些障碍的策略和策略。