The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Improve Communication, Trust and Collaboration

The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Improve Communication, Trust and Collaboration
Author: Mary Scannell
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-05-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071743669

Make workplace conflict resolution a game that EVERYBODY wins! Recent studies show that typical managers devote more than a quarter of their time to resolving coworker disputes. The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games offers a wealth of activities and exercises for groups of any size that let you manage your business (instead of managing personalities). Part of the acclaimed, bestselling Big Books series, this guide offers step-by-step directions and customizable tools that empower you to heal rifts arising from ineffective communication, cultural/personality clashes, and other specific problem areas—before they affect your organization's bottom line. Let The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games help you to: Build trust Foster morale Improve processes Overcome diversity issues And more Dozens of physical and verbal activities help create a safe environment for teams to explore several common forms of conflict—and their resolution. Inexpensive, easy-to-implement, and proved effective at Fortune 500 corporations and mom-and-pop businesses alike, the exercises in The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games delivers everything you need to make your workplace more efficient, effective, and engaged.

Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies

Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
Author: Lois Edmund
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1538117649

This book integrates research and theoretical findings from multiple disciplines to present a holistic approach to conflict resolution. It highlights the wide-ranging and compelling relevance of Conflict Resolution Studies by exploring the entire spectrum of applications in interpersonal relationships, family and group functioning, and national and international relations.

Conflict Resolution - Volume II

Conflict Resolution - Volume II
Author: Keith William Hipel
Publisher: EOLSS Publications
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2009-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 1848261217

Conflict Resolution is a component of Encyclopedia of Institutional and Infrastructural Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Conflict Resolution deals with conflict which is an integral component in the utilization and management of all life support systems. These volumes give a comprehensive review on Conflict Domains: Warfare, Internal Conflicts, and the Search for Negotiated or Mediated Resolutions; Analysis methods of conflict and its resolution; Approaches to Conflict ;Resolution; Formal Models for Conflict Resolution and Case Studies. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

The Conflict Resolution Phrase Book

The Conflict Resolution Phrase Book
Author: Barbara Mitchell
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1632659069

A reference to help business leaders and human resources managers dissolve office disputes and foster dialogue with employees. Ouch! Did I really say that? What was I thinking? It’s uncomfortable to go into a tenuous situation blind and fumbling for words. That’s why people run from conflict. Rather than avoid these situations, The Conflict Resolution Phrase Book can help you prepare for and embrace them. Sometimes you just need a prompt to say the right thing, and that’s what this book will do. Using it you’ll learn: Positive things to say when initiating or responding to difficult conversations and situations How to find and craft language to start a sensitive conversation The right words to positively influence the situation The more you practice, the better you’ll become. Having this book at your fingertips will give you the confidence that the words will come out right. The Conflict Resolution Phrase Book is a natural complement to the author’s previous book, The Essential Workplace Conflict Handbook. “Barbara and Cornelia take the fear out of managing conflict and difficult conversations.” —Adam Bowman, MA. PHR “A ready resource on how to talk differently to get different results when managing conflict. It is a must have for the manager or HR professional.” —Marsha Hughes-Rease, MSOD, PCC, CAPT/NC/USN/Ret., Quo Vadis Coaching and Consulting, LLC

Culture & Conflict Resolution

Culture & Conflict Resolution
Author: Kevin Avruch
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781878379825

After years of relative neglect, culture is finally receiving due recognition as a key factor in the evolution and resolution of conflicts. Unfortunately, however, when theorists and practitioners of conflict resolution speak of culture, they often understand and use it in a bewildering and unhelpful variety of ways. With sophistication and lucidity, "Culture and Conflict Resolution" exposes these shortcomings and proposes an alternative conception in which culture is seen as dynamic and derivative of individual experience. The book explores divergent theories of social conflict and differing strategies that shape the conduct of diplomacy, and examines the role that culture has (and has not) played in conflict resolution. The author is as forceful in critiquing those who would dismiss or diminish culture s relevance as he is trenchant in advocating conflict resolution approaches that make the most productive use of a coherent concept of culture. In a lively style, Avruch challenges both scholars and practitioners not only to develop a clearer understanding of what culture is, but also to take that understanding and incorporate it into more effective conflict resolution processes."

Global Conflict Resolution Through Positioning Analysis

Global Conflict Resolution Through Positioning Analysis
Author: Fathali M. Moghaddam
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007-11-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0387721126

Readers find here a volume that applies positioning theory in order to achieve a fuller and more in-depth understanding of conflict and its psychological resolution. Positioning theory is the study of the nature, formation, influence and ways of change of local systems of rights and duties as shared assumptions about them influence small scale interactions. This book will thus be of interest to social psychologists and anyone interested in the development and applications of positioning theory.

Across the Lines of Conflict

Across the Lines of Conflict
Author: Michael Lund
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2015-12-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0231801378

Through a comparative analysis of six case studies, this volume illustrates key conflict-resolution techniques for peacebuilding. Outside parties learn how to facilitate cooperation by engaging local leaders in intensive, interactive workshops. These opposing leaders reside in small, ethnically divided countries, including Burundi, Cyprus, Estonia, Guyana, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan, that have experienced communal conflicts in recent years. In Estonia and Guyana, peacebuilding initiatives sought to ward off violence. In Burundi and Sri Lanka, initiatives focused on ending ongoing hostilities, and in Cyprus and Tajikistan, these efforts brought peace to the country after its violence had ended. The contributors follow a systematic assessment framework, including a common set of questions for interviewing participants to prepare comparable results from a set of diverse cases. Their findings weigh the successes and failures of this particular approach to conflict resolution and draw conclusions about the conditions under which such interactive approaches work, as well as assess the audience and the methodologies used. This work features research conducted in conjunction with the Working Group on Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States, convened by the Wilson Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity.

Conflict Resolution in Early Childhood

Conflict Resolution in Early Childhood
Author: Edyth J. Wheeler
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

For courses in the Guidance and Management of Young Children. This text examines the nature of conflict among 2- to 8-year-olds from a research-based, constructivist/ecological perspective - integrating themes of caring, building classroom community, connecting curriculum, involving family and community, and responding to the current educational climate. The author thoroughly discusses children's conflicts, emphasizing that peer and community culture make up the foundation for preventing and resolving conflict, and advocates teaching conflict resolution skills via a "three-layer-cake" of understanding, management, and resolution. Coverage presents ways to create a caring classroom - both in physical environment and curriculum, to work with other adults in a child's life, and to implement peer mediation. Throughout, the material stresses the need to understand all children in light of applicable theory and current "best practice" in culturally responsive and inclusive classrooms.

Conflict Resolution in the High School

Conflict Resolution in the High School
Author: Carol Miller Lieber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Classroom management
ISBN: 9780942349115

The lessons in this guide teach high school students the essential skills they'll need to manage and resolve interpersonal conflict in creative, positive ways. Along the way students will also explore diversity, power, and prejudice as they continue to develop greater emotional and social skillfulness.Conflict Resolution in the High School contains: 36 core skill lessons An exploration of 8 different implementation models In-depth information on how to infuse conflict resolution into the standard high school curriculum Ideas for assessing student learning 9 additional, multi-period activities for taking the skills and concepts furtherThe curriculum encourages students to connect the concepts and skills taught in the lessons to their own personal experiences. Students learn to analyze conflict, deal with feelings more effectively, defuse anger, and negotiate and mediate personal and group conflicts. Students also learn how to build more positive intergroup relations and explore how they can use their new skills and understandings to make a positive difference in their communities.