Conflict Map

Copyright 2007 Victoria Pynchon

IP ADR Blog

http://www.IPADRBlog.com CONFLICT M AP

(thanks to Professor Richard Reuben

who bears no responsibility for my errors)

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Sources of Conflict PERCEPTIONS

Relative

 Individual Deprivation Self Interests

&

characteristics Aspirations

 Social Process

o $$$ Injurious

o Resources Event Other

 Social structure Interests

 Identity &

Aspirations

Dispute =

Immediate

Manifestation of

 Negative

results for

Conflict  Satisfy

yielder some of

 nothing both

Naming

changes for

Claiming parties’

avoider Problem interests

Blaming

Solving  Resolution

stable

Tactics

Yielding

or

Avoiding

Conflict is a

perceived

Contending divergence of

Tit for Tat interests or belief

Start Nice that current

Be Provokable aspirations of the

Contentious Tactics Be Forgiving parties cannot be

simultaneously

Ingratiation & Gamesmanship

achieved.

O’s resistance overcome



Shaming

O knocked off-balance

O feels bad/yields Conflict Bad Conflict Good

 illness  Identifies

Threats, Promises & Arguments  violence boundaries

O induced to yield  wastes resources  Helps order future

O convinced should yield  wastes time affairs

 erects boundaries  Social change

Coercive commitments or violence  all consuming  Creativity

O acts to avoid harm  destroy  Cooperation

relationships  Fosters mutual

 divert attention understanding

away from  Deepens

substance relationships

 Win-lose  escalate  Discourages

 Resolution premature

Unstable 2 decision making

 Fosters solidarity