Focus on being direct with honesty and integrity. Be open and transparent with what. Building trust, especially when it has been lost, is difficult. Apologizing and honestly trying to learn something new today may not be acceptable.
Be open and transparent with what you can share. Accept the other party without blaming. Do what you say you're going to do on time. The three Belmont principles (respect for people, charity and justice) have been interpreted and described in a series of ethical standards.
These standards put the principles into practice and describe the actions that should or should not be taken when conducting research with human beings. To conduct ethical research with human beings, researchers must incorporate these standards into their protocols. IRB members evaluate the procedures found in research protocols based on these standards and ensure that research is conducted in an ethical manner (for example, if life were so easy). When faced with conflicting ethical principles, what decision-making model do you use? Because values and morals tend to be fairly stable, people are often unwilling to negotiate or compromise on these issues.
In fact, if the basic substantive issues of the conflict are deeply embedded in the moral orders of the participants, these issues are likely to be very difficult to resolve. In many cases, groups rely on rigid social or political beliefs or ideologies to indicate why their position is morally superior. The participants in the Beyond Intractability project offer additional information on moral or value conflicts. The moral order of a group is related to its practices, its thought patterns and its language patterns.
While there are many forms and contexts of dialogue, they all seek to replace the omnipresent diatribe of moral conflicts with respectful communication, empathic listening, better understanding and respect. In some cases, these new forms of communication can help parties realize that their moral disagreements are less profound and fundamental than they previously thought. To better understand moral conflict and address it effectively, it is useful to know its common characteristics. The MCD focuses specifically on moral conflicts that cannot be resolved relentlessly, that is, on moral dilemmas.
Some suggest that moral conflict is viewed as a particular form of communication and a pattern of interaction. In some cases, one group may come to view the beliefs and actions of another group as fundamentally bad and morally intolerable. By recognizing the possible existence of unresolvable moral conflicts in research, researchers will learn to be modest and, therefore, also to protect themselves from being infected by the vice of the hybrid. Researchers Fieke Harinck, from the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), and Daniel Druckman, from George Mason University, compared the effectiveness of interventions aimed at resolving both value conflicts and conflicts over resources.
Therefore, the different conceptions of morality between groups lead to misunderstandings, which in turn contributes to the escalation of the conflict.
