Empathy, cultural differences, gender issues... --- ...all of this can have an impact on how actors "feel" about each other. Building empathy taking into consideration cultural differences, gender issues and whatever else is the building block to establish trust, that leads to better understanding or at least to a higher availability to try to understand the other part's point of view. But building trust needs longer times, and, as said, policymakers have not (this is also why Diplomacy exists, doesn't it?)

Source author: Veronica Elena Bocci v_ele_bo@hotmail.com