[...]... the infancy of conflict management as an area of practice Consequently, the field has lacked a comprehensive text on understanding sources of conflict and developing practices for successfully addressing and managing disputes More recently, however, some scholars have begun to fill this void For example, Deutsch and Coleman (2000), in their edited volume The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, offer a collection... anthropologists’ records of oral histories can present the conflicting views of various actors and witnesses of particular events In simulation activities, students may play the roles of characters in historical dramas (78), act as members of diverse interest groups involved in environmental management conflicts (79,80), or simulate social processes such as the escalation of extreme nationalism (81)... virtue of being assumed and, therefore, often uncriticized, implicit conflict education can be a very powerful source of students’ knowledge, attitudes, skills, and social role expectations The background of implicit messages in any given context will facilitate or impede any explicit initiative in conflict resolution education What are the options for combining the multiple dimensions of conflict management. .. roles for interrupting expressions of bias, stereotyping, and other injustices among peers Community Builders spends a considerable portion of their time on what they call “internalized oppression,” which they describe as a poison that people swallow—self-hatred or a lack of self-efficacy—as a result of being repeatedly mistreated They spend some time on each of a series of oppressions (e.g., racism, sexism,... harassment is a kind of interpersonal violence that is challenging to address because of the power imbalance caused by an underlying social conflict (sexism) The goal of the set of related initiatives, described in the following, is not to instill specific techniques for handling individual incidents or disputes, but instead, to increase awareness of social conflicts—specifically, of inequities in the... range of professional endeavors The dynamic field of conflict management offers many challenges and opportunities We wish to collectively thank the contributors for the valuable ideas presented in this volume, and express gratitude to our colleagues and students at Wright State University for their encouragement and support William J Pammer, Jr Jerri Killian REFERENCE Deutsch M, PT Coleman (2000) The Handbook. .. surveillance, restriction, guidance, and punishment of violent and confrontational behavior Although peacekeeping is sometimes associated with the concept of “negative peace,” this term does not imply an inferior approach to conflict management Negative peace refers to an emphasis on achieving the “minimum” condition of peace, which is the absence of overt physical violence—a goal that is still both... alter people’s expectations of themselves and others, away from violence and toward peaceful relations The management of conflict has three main dimensions (7) (Fig 1): 1 The repertoire of formal and informal, autonomous and interventionbased, procedures available for confronting and handling the conflict 2 The understandings and skills for recognizing and making sense of conflict, for imagining alternatives,... role differences Part III presents works that explore conflict management among multiple stakeholders within the context of diverse policy-making and community environments Each part is prefaced with a brief introductory essay that offers an overview of the chapters and the major themes and issues presented, and each concludes with a series of questions for readers to consider and discuss These questions... and well-studied of such conflict resolution education initiatives Here, a small number of students receive specialized training and then serve as mediators, assisting other students to resolve interpersonal conflicts (29,30) This designated team of students encourages and guides their peers’ practice of skills and understandings by mediating (i.e., facilitating their negotiation of solutions to interpersonal . Handbook of Global Legal Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 77. Handbook of Public Information Systems, edited by G. David Garson 7%. Handbook of. Ferrel Heady 90. Handbook of Public Quality Management, edited by Ronald J. Stupak and Peter M. Leitner 91. Handbook of Public Management Practice