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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Human values
  3. Tension

Tension

Yet to rate
  • Tensions
  • Tensionless

Dynamics

The attunement of the world is of opposite tensions, as is that of the harp and the bow. (Heraclitus)

Broader

Friendship-Enmity
Presentable
Courage-Fear
Presentable
Accord-Disaccord
Presentable
Oversufficiency-Insufficiency
Unpresentable

Problem

Regional tensions
Excellent
Irresponsible transient occupants
Excellent
Vulnerability of social systems
Presentable
Premenstrual syndrome
Presentable
Mistaken ideal of tension-free social structures
Presentable
Mental tension
Presentable
Hypertension
Presentable
Ethnic conflict
Presentable
Essential hypertension
Presentable
Global tension due to oil and petroleum crises
Unpresentable
Tension
Unpresentable
Primary pulmonary hypertension
Unpresentable
Political tensions
Unpresentable
International tension
Unpresentable
Family stress
Unpresentable
Enmity
Unpresentable
Emotional disorders
Unpresentable
Disaccord
Unpresentable
Destabilization of governments by secret services
Unpresentable
Trivialization of liberty
Yet to rate
Tensions within political parties
Yet to rate
Tensionless image of free choice
Yet to rate
Sectarianism
Yet to rate
Plural society tensions
Yet to rate
Lifestyle tensions
Yet to rate
Individualistic welfare responsibility
Yet to rate

Strategy

Settling regional tensions
Presentable
Relieving mental stress
Unpresentable
Waging regional war
Yet to rate
Treating hypertension
Yet to rate
Studying tensions created by ethnic trans-state contacts
Yet to rate
Reducing tension between choice and freedom
Yet to rate
Reducing tension
Yet to rate
Reducing structural tensions within society
Yet to rate
Reducing sectarian tension
Yet to rate
Reducing political tensions
Yet to rate
Reducing plural society tensions
Yet to rate
Reducing lifestyle tensions
Yet to rate
Reducing international tension
Yet to rate
Reducing ethnic tensions
Yet to rate
Providing inter-societal tension
Yet to rate
Providing fair and secure trading system
Yet to rate
Promoting tensionless image of free choice
Yet to rate
Preventing hypertension
Yet to rate
Maintaining through tension
Yet to rate
Maintaining structural tensions within society
Yet to rate
Maintaining internal awareness through external tensions
Yet to rate
Increasing tension
Yet to rate
Holding ideal of tension-free social structures
Yet to rate
Fomenting tension
Yet to rate
Easing working situation tensions
Yet to rate
Detecting hypertension
Yet to rate
Defusing political infighting
Yet to rate
Creating social tension through involvement in corporate welfare
Yet to rate
Creating manifested tension
Yet to rate
Cold war
Yet to rate
Calming social tensions
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
Human values
Type
(D) Destructive values
Subject
Tag
tension
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
D6285
DOCID
11462850
D7NID
192368
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/value/tension
Last update
May 22, 2026