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The Insight Conflict Resolution Program (ICRP), led by Dr. Jamie Price, is the premier center for studying, developing and applying the Insight approach to conflict resolution in the United States.
ICRP is a center of thought and practice within S-CAR that employs Bernard Lonergan’s critical, reflexive philosophy as a framework for advancing research and developing applied strategies to transform deep-rooted cultural and religious conflicts that undermine human dignity, create barriers to individual opportunity, and legitimate social and economic injustice.
The Insight approach to conflict resolution explains that in order to make peace you need to understand the world of history, meaning and value that motivates action.
Sargent Shriver is the icon of ICRP
The practical idealism of Sargent Shriver that transformed US relations abroad through Peace Corps and domestically through the War on Poverty illustrates the Insight approach in action.
The call of ICRP is to develop, with the Insight approach, the analytical tools required to understand and replicate the processes of peacemaking and social reconciliation that Sargent Shriver built into his policies and programs.
The Insight approach attends specifically to the mind: to the dynamic structure of human consciousness and its patterns of operation; operations that create meaning and motivate action.
It looks at the way we as individuals use our minds when we lock ourselves into conflict with another person and use violent behavior to deal with it. It also looks at what is happening when we disengage from conflict behaviors and attitudes.
What is the Insight Approach?
The Insight approach explains the cognitive patterns of conflict as a particular pattern of knowing that motivates decisions based on preserving cares that are perceived to be threatened by the decisions and cares of others. Unpacking and delinking these threats-to-cares leads to insights, where people encounter and begin to consider new information. This leads to new, authentic patterns of knowing that are no longer locked in cycles of threatened cares.
Through curiously exploring the cognitive patterns we employ to make sense of situations of conflict, we become better equipped to expand possibilities for non-conflict behaviors and interactions.
The effect is a reorientation and healing of relationships: the building of peace and reconciliation.
What ICRP does is bring the explanatory framework of the Insight approach to practical challenges of conflict and division.