In a sense, perhaps Tomâs mistreatment of Jim is actually a boon, for it leads the other characters in the novel to acknowledge Jim as a worthy human being. In the end, Huckleberry Finn moves beyond questions of slavery, to broader questions of morality and race.
Conflict is defined as an incompatibility of goals or values between two or more parties in a. relationship, combined with attempts to control each other and antagonistic feelings toward each. other (Fisher, 1990). The incompatibility or difference may exist in reality or may only be. perceived by the parties involved.
Ethnic conflicts are one particular form of such conflict: that in which the goals of at least one conflict party are defined in (exclusively) ethnic terms, and in which the primary fault line of confrontation is one of ethnic distinctions.n a second step it is now necessary to draw on various existing theories of ethnic conflict and conflict resolution to establish. Karl Cordell & Stefan W olff (forthcoming), Ethnic C onflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses. Cambridge: Polity.