Constructive conflicts
Subtitle: from escalation to resolution
By: Louis Kriesberg and Bruce W. Dayton
Contributors: Dayton, Bruce W.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781442206830; 9781442206847; 9781442206854
Subjects: Conflict management; Social conflict
Description: 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.