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Lack of communication is another way of naming indirect communication. When someone, be it individual or community, accuses lack of communication between or among people as well as communities, then we should understand that, the accusation goes to the ones who decided to renounce to use direct communication because people communicates all the time verbally, written or trough their actions, positions and so on.
Indirect communication causes most of the problems among people and communities. Sometimes intermediaries are guilty for altering messages as a result of negligence, lack of skills or bad intentions. Other times messages are intentionally altered by the parts involved into the process of communication in order to confuse, to deceive or to manipulate the opposing part or even public opinion.
Decision makers may or may not understand correctly the meaning of messages received from the opposing part. That is why they, and their advisers as well, have to possess good skills and enough experience in dealing with international business. Otherwise wrong interpretation could create crisis and even violent confrontations.
Keywords: communication, mass-media, international politics, conflicts, wars.
1. THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Although it has been demonstrated with viable arguments that people and human communities communicate permanentlty in various ways, we use to say that certain individuals and, respectively, certain communities do not comuní cate with one another. The syntagm "lack of communication" refers really only to the lack of direct communication, especially oral and written. Most of people communicate directly-orally or in writing-because this type of communication gives them the opportunity to explicitly convey messages regarding goals and interests, as well as the ways and means by which they will advocate them in competition or né gociations with a third party.
Unfortunately, direct communication doesn't necessarily open the way toward a succesful solution for settling the disputes between individuals or communities. On the other hand, through direct communication intermediaries are excluded and, implicitly, misinterpretation or distortion of the messages between the two negociating parties are reduced.
Breakdown of direct communication is a decision by which another form of communication is chosen, usually idirect or through intermediaries. The individual or the community making this decision seeks to communicate to the negociating party or...