Constructive Conflicts

by Kriesberg, Louis; Dayton, Bruce W.

• ISBN13: 9781442206847
• ISBN10: 1442206845
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This comprehensive and highly regarded book provides a framework for analyzing diverse social conflicts. The fourth edition of Constructive Conflicts maintains the book "s synthesis of theories about conflict, with key updates throughout. These include a more reader-friendly first chapter, new examples such as the Arab Spring, expanded discussions of recovery from violence and oppression, of reconciliation, and of moral concerns, and new discussions of social media and other ways conflicts are waged.Constructive Conflicts draws from relevant academic disciplines and empirical analyses of diverse conflicts to discuss the emergence, escalation, de-escalation, transformation, and settlement of conflicts. Throughout, the authors examine the strategies that partisans and intermediaries can use to minimize the destructiveness and foster constructive ways to wage and resolve conflict.

Author Biography

Louis Kriesberg is professor emeritus of sociology and Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University. He is the founding director of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. Bruce W. Dayton is associate director and senior research scholar at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs in The Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and co-research director of the international and interstate conflicts program at Maxwell's Program for the Advancement of Research on Collaboration and Conflicts.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
List of Acronyms	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Analyzing Social Conflicts	p. 1
Defining Social Conflicts
Five Core Ideas about Social Conflicts
Varieties of Conflicts
Combinations Constituting Destructiveness and Constructiveness
Bases of Social Conflicts	p. 23
Internal Factors
System Context
Relations between Adversaries
Synthesis
The Emergence of Conflicts	p. 49
Identities of Self and Others
Grievance
Forming Contentious Goals
Believing Redress Is Possible
Conclusions
Alternative Conflict Strategies	p. 85
Types of Inducements
Strategies and Modes of Struggle
Illustrative Strategies
Conclusions
Adopting Conflict Strategies	p. 113
Partisan Goals
Partisan Characteristics
Relations between Adversaries
Social Context
Conclusions
Escalation of Conflicts	p. 143
Dimensions of Escalation
Processes of Escalation
Policies and Conditions Shaping Escalation
Conclusions
De-escalation of Conflicts	p. 177
Processes of De-escalation
Changing Conditions
De-escalation Policies
Conclusions
Mediation in Conflicts	p. 215
Mediation Defined
Social Roles
Shapers of Mediator Roles
Assessing Mediation Contributions
Conclusions
Settling Conflicts through Negotiated and Nonnegotiated Means	p. 247
Variations in Settlement Outcomes
Paths to Settlement
Forms and Stages of Negotiation
Conclusions
Outcomes and Post-Termination Sequences	p. 277
Variations in Outcomes
Variations in Post-Termination Sequences
Internal Consequences
Consequences for the Social Context
Constructive Transformations
Conclusions
Synthesis, Specifications, and Challenges	p. 315
Synthesis
Specifications
Challenges
Conclusions
Selected Organizations in the Field of Constructive Conflicts	p. 347
Selected Websites Relating to Social Conflicts	p. 351
Notes	p. 353
Subject Index	p. 405
Author Index	p. 419
About the Authors	p. 431
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