Conflict between values is the raw material of political citizenship

Evidence

When we talk about diversity, what we mean is that the world is a messy place, full of clashes and conflicts. That is all for the good, for such clashes and conflicts are the raw material of political and cultural engagement. The importance of diversity is that it allows us to expand our horizons, bringing different values, beliefs and lifestyles face to face, and forcing us to think about those differences. Only this can create the political dialogue and debate necessary, paradoxically, to help forge a more universal language of citizenship. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 683

Categorization

• XREF: This normative defense of diversity-as-conflict is the traditionalist liberal answer that this text uses to counter both the Runnymede ‘closed views’ moralism and the censorship anti-racism — locate it against Bleich’s neutral concept-formation. — connects to: Moral decay stems from new political problems, not ideas alone; Diversity’s conflicts are the raw material for forging a universal citizenship — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 688; Reducing sacred values to material ones worsens conflict (+8 more)

Related

• Moral decay stems from new political problems, not ideas alone (similarity 0.89)
• Diversity’s conflicts are the raw material for forging a universal citizenship (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Moral panics are often rooted in political struggles over values. #exemplifies (0.78) — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 131
• Politics is the transgression of taboos rather than the forward movement of reason #corroborates (0.75) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 33
• Political labels can be claimed by opposing factions simultaneously #exemplifies (0.75)
• Terms like peace and democracy are contested concepts in struggles #exemplifies (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 377
• Effective political action requires common opinions, affections, and interests #expands (0.75)
• Reducing sacred values to material ones worsens conflict #complicates (0.72)
• Sacred values’ interpretive ambiguity allows peace-oriented reframing #expands (0.72)
• Material incentives harden sacred-value conflicts while symbolic gestures soften them #complicates (0.72)