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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Political Science

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  • International disputes require effective conflict resolution strategies.
  • Existing approaches often overlook developmental aspects of wisdom and conflict management.
  • Cognitive developmental theory offers a framework for understanding intellectual growth and its relation to societal challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a cognitive developmental theory for preparing citizens to resolve national and international conflicts.
  • To outline a control theory of wisdom based on developmental stages.
  • To explore the educational and political implications of this integrated theory.

Main Methods:

  • Invoking cognitive developmental theory to explain intellectual progression from infancy to adulthood.
  • Developing a control theory of wisdom linked to successive life periods and interpersonal relations.
  • Analyzing the Greek-Turkish dispute as a case study for conflict resolution.

Main Results:

  • Intellectual development involves stages: interaction control (infancy), attention/representational awareness (preschool), inferential control (primary school), and advanced reasoning (adolescence).
  • Wisdom development progresses through stages: trust/care (infancy), perspective-taking/empathy (preschool), rationality (primary school), and understanding societal operations (adolescence).
  • Educational strategies can leverage developmental strengths for enhanced conflict resolution and global understanding.

Conclusions:

  • Wisdom can be derived from cognitive and personality development across the lifespan.
  • This theory provides a novel framework for addressing complex world problems through citizen education.
  • Political implications and constraints of applying this developmental approach to conflict resolution are discussed.