If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.
Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.
Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.
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