ABSTRACT

Conflict plays an important role in mutual aid (Bernstein 1965, Gitterman 1989; Glassman and Kates 1990; Papell and Rothman 1980; Shulman 1999). The discovery, expression, and exploration of commonality may be what helps people become open to one another as potential resources, but it is conflict, or the discovery, expression, and exploration of their differences, that will propel them to entertain new ways of looking at old pictures.