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Conflict Resolution is one of the fastest growing academic fields in the world today. Although it is a relatively young discipline, having emerged as a specialized field in the 1950s, it has rapidly grown into a self-contained, vibrant, interdisciplinary field. The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution brings together all the conceptual, methodological, and substantive elements of Conflict Resolution into one volume of 35 specially commissioned chapters. The Handbook is designed to reflect where the field is today by drawing on the contributions of experts from different fields, presenting, in a systematic way, the most recent research and practice.
Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
Negotiation, the process of combining conflicting positions into a joint agreement, is synonymous with conflict resolution, and is the most common (although not the only) way of preventing, managing, resolving, and transforming conflicts. Indeed, there is little negotiation that does not have to do with conflict resolution. If one adopts a rational choice definition of war or violent conflict as bargaining failure (Fearon 1995; Reiter 2003), then successful bargaining or negotiation is the means of preventing or resolving violent conflict.
Such an understanding requires a return to the antecedent notion of conflict. Conflict arises from incompatible positions; it is ubiquitous, and not especially troublesome — worthy of resolution — in its static phase (Coser 1956; Aron 1957; Bernard 1957; ...
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