Constructive Conflicts: From Emergence to Transformation

✍ Scribed by Bruce W. Dayton, Louis Kriesberg

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 379
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Substantially revised for the sixth edition, Constructive Conflicts explains how large-scale political and social conflicts can be waged more constructively, with more positive consequences and fewer destructive consequences for those involved. Drawing on research from political science, sociology, social-psychology, neuroscience, cultural studies, and other disciplines, Dayton and Kriesberg follow the lifecycle of social and political conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and often emerge again in new forms. The sixth edition presents numerous new examples and cases of conflict episodes that have avoided extreme coercion or violence and which have resulted in the advancement of the interests of most parties involved. The book gives policymakers, concerned citizens, and students a powerful analytical framework, supported by data, for understanding and constructively intervening in conflicts of different type and scale, offering a way out of the destructive cycles of conflict management which have come to characterize contemporary social and political relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I. CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND CONFLICT THEORY
Chapter One. The Constructive Conflicts Approach
Chapter Two. Preconditions: Three Perspectives on the Origin of Conflicts
Part II. CONFLICT EMERGENCE AND CONFLICT STRATEGIES
Chapter Three. Emergence
Chapter Four. Alternative Conflict Strategies: Coercion, Reward, and Persuasion
Chapter Five. Adopting Conflict Strategies
Part III. CONFLICT ESCALATION AND DE-ESCALATION
Chapter Six. Escalation
Chapter Seven. De-Escalation
Part IV. MEDIATION, NEGOTIATION, AND POSTCONFLICT OUTCOMES
Chapter Eight. Mediation
Chapter Nine. Non-Negotiated and Negotiated Settlements
Chapter Ten. Postsettlement Outcomes
Chapter Eleven. Toward Constructive Conflict Transformation
Appendix A. Selected Organizations in the Field of Constructive Conflicts
Notes
Index
About the Authors