The Resolution of Conflict
Subtitle: Constructive and Destructive Processes (Carl Hovland Memorial Lectures Series)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1977
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780300021868
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Violence in society; General; Sociology - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Psychology; Competition (Psychology); Conflict management; Cooperation; Social conflict
Description: The basic question to which this book is addressed is not how to eliminate or prevent conflict but rather how to make it productive, or minimally, how to prevent it from being destructive. I shall not deal with situations of "pure" conflict in which inevitably one side loses what the other gains. My interest is in conflict where there is a mixture of cooperative and competitive interests, where a variety of outcomes is possible; mutual loss, gain for one and loss of the other, and mutual gain. Thus my query can be restated, as an investigation of the conditions under which the participants will evolve a cooperative relationship or a competitive relationship in a situation which permits either. -- from the introduction.