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» This article is about the interpersonal communication technique of finding common ground. For other uses see Common Ground.
Finding
common ground is a technique for facilitating
interpersonal relationships. In order to find common ground between parties, participants must search for signals of
recognition, which are often subtle and cause for misunderstanding. Generally,
smiles, bland faces, or frowns can be the positive, neutral or negative signals. When verbal communication is possible, the participants can
speak and then
listen.
Historically, the
commons in many communities were a place which was available to everyone, such as the village pump, or the
sidewalk of a
road. Thus even for those far from
home, the sight of someone familiar only from the
commons might be comforting to a homesick or lonely traveller. This effect can be seen in many
kinship groups. One measure for interpersonal relationships is
warmth. Thus discovery of
common ground is commonly cause for comfort and additional
happiness among the participants, and is one step on the way to
respect or perhaps
friendship.
However, to some people in small-enough communities,
conflict has occurred between them has occurred too often to find common ground, and isolation from each other is the only path toward
healing and a
healthy
relationship. For such people, shunning of the commons is necessary. But if one is
forced onto the commons, then a minimal acceptable behavior toward others is necessary when on common ground, as in a
truce.
As an example, one technique for
anonymous trade between mutually suspicious parties was for the offerers to lay the goods (such as
gold) in a
clearing (the potential
common ground), and then to hide in the forest with the gold in their plain sight, while armed with weapons, in the event of
treachery. Thus, the offers could be made to traders. The traders, who bore goods (and who were also armed with weapons), would lay the trade goods in the clearing, and take the gold back with them. This was a mechanism for trading between the
Moors and the gold miners of
Africa over a millennium ago, and also for trade with
Sumatra (the
isle of gold) and other islands of
Southeast Asia. This has some structural similarity to the policy of
mutually assured destruction during the
Cold War era.
Today, we've the advantage of more highly-developed communications techniques, but the basic need for minimizing
suspicion and maximizing
trust remains with us, world-wide, at a time when
polarization is increasing.
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