ISBN:
3642352804
,
9783642352805
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 242 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Peace psychology book series
Series Statement:
Springer complexity
Parallel Title:
Print version Attracted to conflict
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Social conflict
;
Conflict (Psychology)
;
Socioeconomic Factors
Abstract:
Conflict is inherent in virtually every aspect of human relations, from sport to parliamentary democracy, from fashion in the arts to paradigmatic challenges in the sciences, and from economic activity to intimate relationships.? Yet, it can become among the most serious social problems humans face when it loses its constructive features and becomes protracted over time with no obvious means of resolution.?This book addresses the subject of intractable social conflict from a new vantage point.??Here, these types of conflict represent self-organizing phenomena, emerging quite naturally from the
Description / Table of Contents:
Overview: Conflict in Human ExperienceOrigins: The Promise of Dynamical Systems TheoryFoundations: The Dynamical Perspective on Social ProcessesPatterns: Temporal Trajectories of ConflictTraps: Intractable Conflict as a Dynamical SystemEscape: How Conflicts Can Be TransformedSustainability: The Dynamics of Enduring PeaceEpilogue: Conflict in the Twenty First Century.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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