hate, a.k.a. the need for enemies, is usually satisfied through the intensification of conflict, and not through its resolution. Harre, Rom & Grant Gillet (1994) Mediators, intermediaries, third parties, etc. are not really conflict re-solvers. They can't resolve the conflict. They can only facilitate directly involved parties in their endeavor to resolve their conflict. Therefore, it is the conflicting parties, the people or groups of people directly involved in a conflict, which can be the true conflict re-solvers. Yet, some conflicts cannot be resolved without the help of an intermediary, a third party. Parties' perceptions of each other and of the issues of the conflict are so biased, so limiting, that they cannot see mutually satisfactory, mutually beneficial, or integrative options, even when they have the desire to settle their differences. Harre, Rom & Grant Gillet (1994) It is in such cases that third parties can be the most helpful. By bringing to the conflict their own knowledge and experience, their own perspective, and, of course, their own power and leverage, they make previously unconsidered options visible and feasible. As far as dealing with the need for enemies is concerned, mediators may help the parties understand what makes them the enemy of each other: What social-economic-political conditions, what dynamics, what ideas and ideologies and what misperceptions. The parties may then project their negative emotions and energies to the causes of conflict and may cooperate with each other to eliminate them (McIntosh, Mary E., Martha A. MacIver, Daniel G. Abele & David B. Nolle 1995).
             As you can see, conflict resolution is a truly multidisciplinary field. It is an amalgam of psychology, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthr
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