ETHICS IN POLITICS

Conflicts and Resolutions

Abstract

Politics is an essential aspect of human life – essential in building, governing, and developing societies and communities based on rules; it includes both theory and practice of legislating and executing rule of law for common good. In practice, politics refers to achieving, exercising and maintaining positions of power. Citizens, political leaders, parliamentarians, government executives, the judiciary, the media, business, nongovernmental organisations, and religious and educational institutions are involved in this complex fact of life and ethics is fundamental to all stakeholders in politics. Though personal morality may differ from political morality there cannot be any political decision without morality.