Indeed if the legal field is to be understood as instrumental to democracy's cohabitation of
individuals research on dispute resolution remains pre-eminent as a means to understand how
individual views differ and how different views can be overcome. As a central part of conflict
analysis such research would assist an interdisciplinary quest for a dynamic understanding of
democracy and law. It would focus on how different individuals with different conceptions of
the good can live together in their community in their world. Scientific research in the
fields of communication economics psychology history political theory and philosophy to
name but a few would side with legal theory in a shared ambition to analyze the way
individuals are affected by their views as well as by their institutions in order to provide
society with a dynamic means to solve conflicts and enhance citizenship or legal awareness.
Such research necessarily coincides with empathy-oriented education directed towards an
understanding of different conflict positions and the related comprehensive or
non-comprehensive views affecting them. An affective education analyzing all affective
mechanisms of societal or interpersonal disputes and their legal or alternative resolution. A
clinical education offering an interactive simulation with regard to these positions and their
affective impact demonstrating how individual views continuously affect the positions taken
how disputes are affected by the legal or other institutions that attempt to solve them and
how the effectiveness of legal or other solutions to the conflict at hand depends on a practice
of affective legal analysis. Thus legal and civic education by way of affective narration and
clinical simulation join affective legal analysis in its endeavor to provide society with a
similarly affective and non-rationalizing approach of legal awareness.
