ABSTRACT
Good conflict resolution is a meticulous practice in democracy. It is thus critical to understand something about democracy as a practical concept. People practice democracy by managing social processes themselves. Chapter 9 leads the reader to the portal of “democracy,” which is another word for self-directed personal evolution with profound social implications. In this sense, democracy is a system of shared power with checks and balances, a system in which individuals can affect the outcome of personal decisions that, in the collective, become political decisions affecting social-environmental sustainability for all generations.
