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pushed further. At the basis of international crisis management, there should be afundamental understanding of the dynamics and processes involved in the resolutionof individual conflict.To make progress forward, sometimes takes the humility and wisdom to take astep back; to first determine what is possible in the resolution of small conflicts on theindividual level before one has the ambition to apply policies to international conflictand preventive diplomacy. Before one rushes into places like Bosnia with prescriptionsfor change, one might simply ask whether given similar conditions a therapist wouldoffer his services to a couple or family in conflict? If not, why not? What lessons ofhumility has a therapist learned from trial and error that the UN has yet to learn?What explosive opportunities and potential has the UN yet to fully develop?Ⅰ．Lessons from Preventive Mental Health 2to Preventive Diplomacy“Individual crisis, like international crisis, is a dangerous juncture. Whereas aninternational crisis may explode into an outbreak of hostilities and war, an individualcrisis may tragically end in suicide or homicide. Both the therapist or the internationalcrisis manager are faced with high stakes and a crucial choice: attend to immediatesymptomatic relief or grapple with the potentially explosive underlying causes ofconflict.A policy focusing on the immediate reduction of individual or internationalcrisis is often one of necessity. In individual crisis this translates into the therapistfocusing on the containment or elimination of distress signals such as anxiety, anger,physical symptoms, depression or psychosis that may lead to suicide or homicide. Ininternational crisis this policy translates into the crisis manager focusing on the deescalationof tension that may lead to further hostilities or another full blown war.3682 The understanding of preventive mental health presented in this paper is rooted in the LifeTrack understandingof individual crisis and optimal adjustment. See Ishizuka, Y. Total Psychological Adjustment（Japanese）Tokyo:Kodansha, 1982 and Ishizuka, Y.“LifeTrack Therapy”, Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa, Nov. 1988.