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Conflict is a fact of life. It is ever-present in organisations and unless a dictatorial management style prevails or groupthink prevails the conflict is not only expected but should be encouraged. The question then becomes how it is managed. Manage it with professionalism and competence and it can enhance the organisation, manage it poorly and it will escalate.
Some years ago Prime Minister Juha Sipilä was involved in conflict with the media and how they were reporting his business interests. There was an apparent conflict of interests when it came to one of his ministerial portfolios and the use of funds for state-run assets.
B.5. Reading (Look at this before doing the tasks). The Tasks and Answer Key/Pointers/Sources are in Theme H in the drop-down menu at the top of this page.
Think About:
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” – John Dalberg- Acton
“Power is not a means: it is an end” – George Orwell
“The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship” – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
“An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings” – Salman Rushdie
Materials Updates/News:
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Ferguson, N. (2023). The Treason of the Intellectuals. The Free Press 11.12.2024.
De Pater, A., and Hoikkala, V. (2024). Free Speech under Threat in Finland and Beyond? Evangelical Review of Theology 48(1): 5-13.
Skrzypek, M. (2023). Between neo-militant and quasi-militant democracy: restrictions on freedoms of speech and the press in Austria, Finland, and Sweden 2008–2019. European Politics and Society 24(5): 552 – 571.
Äyst, T. (2017). Insulting the sacred in a multicultural society: the conviction of Jussi Halla-aho under the Finnish religious insult section. Culture and Religion 18(3): 191 – 211.
The censorship industrial complex:
Taylor, L. (2024). Google Isn’t Just Trying to Rewrite History. It’s at the Centre of a Worldwide Web of Censorship. The Daily Sceptic 25.2.2024.
And the branding of Finland continues:
Yle. 3.5.2024. Finland stays fifth in press freedom rankings, but concerns remain.
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