Conflict Resolution Skills materials and learning resources.
Conflict Resolution (9)
By The Routledge Relations. The Routledge Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies offers a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today. The volume is divided into four sections, commencing with ‘Understanding and Transforming Conflict’, moving sequentially through ‘Creating Peace’ and ‘Supporting Peace’, and culminating with ‘Peace Across the Disciplines’. Each section features new essays by distinguished international scholars and/or professionals working in peace studies and conflict resolution and transformation.
By Donna Crawford and Richard Bodine Conflict Resolution Education: A Guide to Implementing Programs in Schools, Youth-Serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice Settings was developed for educators, juvenile justice practitioners, and others in youth-serving organizations to heighten awareness of conflict resolution education and its potential to help settle disputes peacefully in a variety of settings.
By John Kenneth Steinmeyer This paper argues that the interactive problem-solving workshops created by political scientist John Burton and applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by social psychologist Herbert Kelman, while not, as yet, resulting in a just and permanent peace agreement, are effective in resolving intractable conflict, and, if persistently used, can significantly help to produce such an agreement.
By Christopher R. Mitchell This article starts with an attempt to set out a framework for thinking systematically about the relationship between conflict and change, distinguishing between changes that create conflicts and those which make conflict more intense or which help to ameliorate it.
By Johan Galtung The reader will find in this book such ideas as dissociative vs associative relations, actor vs structural conflicts based on values vs interests, symmetric vs asymmetric conflict, conflict transformation, empirical vs potential reality, conflict transcendence as opposed to compromise, conflict resolution vs conflict repression, conflict resolution through transformation of potential into empirical reality, goals vs pursuit by means of resources, the focus on equity and the rejection of the conflict-manager who steals somebody else’s conflict and deprives them of that chance of growth
By Commonwealth Youth Programme This module has been designed to help you understand the nature of conflict and its effects on people in a range of contexts, both at an individual and at a group level. We will also look at the processes involved in behaviour that occurs between different groups, called inter-group behaviour, and its potential impact on group members.
Edited by PETER FENN and ROD GAMESON The aim of this book is to examine and investigate techniques involved with the management and resolution of conflict arising in construction projects, both in the United Kingdom and around the world.
By Ho-Won Jeong My aim in this book is to provide a solid, elaborate conceptual knowledge base that helps students be better orientated toward the analysis of contemporary conflict phenomena, ranging from ethnic and other inter-group conflict, international terrorism, and inter-state disputes.
By Hyuckchul Jung s. In resolving conflicts, we focus on the approaches based on DCSP (distributed constraint satisfaction problems), a major paradigm in multiagent conflict resolution. We aim to speed up conflict resolution convergence via developing efficient DCSP strategies.