Conflict resolution

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Conflict resolution is a range of methods for alleviating or eliminating sources of conflict. The term "conflict resolution" is sometimes used interchangeably with the term dispute resolution or alternative dispute resolution. Processes of conflict resolution generally include negotiation, mediation, and diplomacy. The processes of arbitration, litigation, and formal complaint processes such as ombudsman processes, are usually described with the term dispute resolution, although some refer to them as "conflict resolution." Processes of mediation and arbitration are often referred to as alternative dispute resolution.

Contents 1 Methods 2 GeoSpatial Data 3 See also 4 Bibliography 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Methods

There are many tools available to persons in conflict. How and when they are used depends on several factors (such as the specific issues at stake in the conflict and the cultural context of the disputants). In such cases a conflict atlas is used to show the major issues, which led to the conflict. The list of tools available to practitioners include negotiation, mediation, community building, advocacy, diplomacy, activism, nonviolence, critical pedagogy, prayer, and counseling. In real world conflict situations, which range in scale from kindergarten bullying to genocide, practitioners will creatively combine several of these approaches as needed. Additionally, practitioners will often specialize in a particular scale (e.g. interpersonal, community, or international), or a particular variety of conflict (such as environmental, religious, or organizational), and repertoires of tools they find most useful

[edit] GeoSpatial Data

Conflicts often arise within GeoSpatial data that must be resolved or "reconciled." This often occurs when merging multiple versions of the same dataset together. Interactive conflict resolution involves resolving conflicts manually by a reviewing analyst. Automated reconciliation provides a more rapid solution based on pre-determined parameters such as hierarchy or record age.

[edit] See also

• Dispute resolution
• Collaborative law
• Collaborative divorce
• Conflict style inventory
• Conflict Resolution Day
• Conflict resolution research
• Conflict transformation
• Creative Peacebuilding
• Deep democracy
• Dialogue
• Family therapy
• Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research
• Interpersonal communication
• Mediation
• Negotiation
• Nonviolent Communication
• Peace and conflict studies
• Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center
• Reconciliation
• Restorative justice
• Search for Common Ground One of the world's largest non-government organisations dedicated to conflict resolution.
• Seeds of Peace develops and empowers young leaders from regions of conflict to work towards peace through coexistence
• University for Peace United Nations mandated organization and graduate school dedicated to conflict resolution and peace studies.
• Talaq – a last step in marriage, in Islamic jurisprudence.
• United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) A global NGO and youth network dedicated to the role of youth in peacebuilding and conflict resolution
• Worldwork – a process oriented approach to conflict management and group process
• Cost of conflict

[edit] Bibliography

• Augsburger, D. (1992). Conflict mediation across cultures. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster / John Knox Press.
• Bannon, I. & Paul Collier (Eds.). (2003). Natural resources and violent conflict: Options and actions. Washington, D.C: The World Bank.
• Ury, F. & Rodger Fisher. (1981). Getting to yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in. New York, NY: Penguin Group.
• Wilmot,W. & Jouyce Hocker. (2007). Interpersonal conflict. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Companies.
• de Waal, Frans B. M. and Angeline van Roosmalen. 1979. Reconciliation and consolation among chimpanzees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 5: 55–66.
• de Waal, Frans B. M. 1989. Peacemaking Among Primates. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Judge, Peter G. and Frans B. M. de Waal. 1993. Conflict avoidance among rhesus monkeys: coping with short-term crowding. Animal Behaviour 46: 221–232.
• Veenema, Hans et al. 1994. Methodological improvements for the study of reconciliation. Behavioural Processes 31:29–38.
• de Waal, Frans B. M. and Filippo Aureli. 1996. Consolation, reconciliation, and a possible cognitive difference between macaques and chimpanzees. Reaching into thought: The minds of the great apes (Eds. Anne E. Russon, Kim A. Bard, Sue Taylor Parker), Cambridge University Press, New York, NY: 80–110.
• Aureli, Filippo. 1997. Post-conflict anxiety in non-human primates: the mediating role of emotion in conflict resolution. Aggressive Behavior 23: 315–328.
• Castles, Duncan L. and Andrew Whiten. 1998. Post-conflict behaviour of wild olive baboons, I. Reconciliation, redirection, and consolation. Ethology 104: 126–147.
• Aureli, Filippo and Frans B. M. de Waal, eds. 2000. Natural Conflict Resolution. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
• de Waal, Frans B. M. 2000. Primates––A natural heritage of conflict resolution. Science 289: 586–590.
• Silk, Joan B. 2002. The form and function of reconciliation in primates. Annual Review of Anthropology 31: 21–44.
• Weaver, Ann and Frans B. M. de Waal. 2003. The mother-offspring relationship as a template in social development: reconciliation in captive brown capuchins (Cebus apella). Journal of Comparative Psychology 117: 101–110.
• Palagi, Elisabetta et al. 2004. Reconciliation and consolation in captive bonobos (Pan paniscus). American Journal of Primatology 62: 15–30.
• Palagi, Elisabetta et al. 2005. Aggression and reconciliation in two captive groups of Lemur catta. International Journal of Primatology 26: 279–294.
• Lorenzen, Michael. 2006. Conflict Resolution and Academic Library Instruction. LOEX Quarterly 33, no. ½,: 6–9, 11.
• Winslade, John & Monk, Gerald. 2000. Narrative Mediation: A New Approach to Conflict Resolution. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.
• Bar-Siman-Tov, Yaacov (Ed.) (2004). From Conflict Resolution to Reconciliation. Oxford University Press

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[edit] External links

• Employee conflict resolution at the Open Directory Project
• Party-Directed Mediation: Helping Others Resolve Differences free book PDF download, at the University of California
• Search for Common Ground
• On Earth Peace

• Transforming conflicts into positive interactions.

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