In the 21st century, owning to the high uncertainty and variability, korea public area were faced with the complexity; closely connected with various profits and conflict in the interest; brought about a public conflict. Most of the public conflict we...
In the 21st century, owning to the high uncertainty and variability, korea public area were faced with the complexity; closely connected with various profits and conflict in the interest; brought about a public conflict. Most of the public conflict were attributed to the religion development and SOC project; sometimes involved with risk of the environment destruction. For that reason, public conflicts occurring in the process of the policy making showed the sharp conflict with the government and the resident; developed into the social problem; required the national problem-solving after all.
Based on this situation, the public conflict was selected as the thesis subject; focused on the case study on the selection of the radioactive waste area in Gyeongju and Buan. The perspective of this study was based on the instrumental rationality; also utilized the IAD(Institutional analysis and development framework) for the effective analysis. The subject of study, case of the location of the radioactive waste disposal facility in Gyeongju and Buan, showed the similar situation conditions and characters through the radioactive waste disposal policy in macro perspective: system, economic society, agent, participation structure, and interaction, whereas in micro perspective, it displayed muliti-dimensional participation structure, interaction among participants, and the influence of the system. Especially, the contrasted situation in the Gyeongju and Buan, its result, and the introduction of the first referendum provided many implications for researches on public conflicts.
The former studies focused on the source of conflict; adaptability of the policy; mostly concentrated on the dispute concerning the referendum. However, in the findings of this study, the case of kyenongju and Buan showed the contrasted location process and its result were drawn by the mediation of profit and interest among participants, negotiation and agreement, and the role of the system, which played important element in problem-solving.
These findings showed the gap exist between the evaluation that the referendum played key role and focus on the controversy of democracy on the referendum; the existence of the agent playing the mediate and adjustment role through the negotiation was key to the problem-solving. In Buan and Gyeongju case, in case of the former, the central government or local government failed to reach on agreement between various benefits and interests of the participants; In the end, the failure case like Buan brought about in the process of selecting radioactive waste site.
Unlike the former case, in the latter case, local authority drew on the agreement among the participants by the negotiation of a multi-dimensional participation system; this agreement of the interest among the participants lead to the religion development through invitation of the radioactive waste area. These result was attributed to the invitation of the radioactive waste based on the cooperation.
Therefore, this study agreed to the fact that referendum was valid as the strategic conflict management, however, the position of the referendum agreed to the instrumental role of special law on the invitation site of mid-low level radioactive waste disposal facility site.
In concluding this paper, the findings and policy implication suggested the necessity of the arbitrator who could mediate and adjust the multi-dimensional participation system as follows: first, the necessity of the IGM(Inter Governmental Management), second, ADR(Alternative Dispute Resolution) in the adjustment and mediation among the participants, last, in the multi-dimensional participation system, adjustment organization and the committee consisting of government, residents, NGO, and specialists for conflict resolutions.