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Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Series: Peace Psychology Book Series
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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 ongoing dynamics in human interaction at any scale-from the
interpersonal to the international. Using the universal language
and computational framework of nonlinear dynamical systems theory
in combination with recent insights from social psychology,
intractable conflict is understood as a system locked in special
attractor states that constrain the thoughts and actions of the
parties to the conflict. The emergence and maintenance of
attractors for conflict can be described by means of formal models
that incorporate the results of computer simulations, experiments,
field research, and archival analyses. Multi-disciplinary research
reflecting these approaches provides encouraging support for the
dynamical systems perspective. Importantly, this text presents new
views on conflict resolution. In contrast to traditional approaches
that tend to focus on basic, short-lived cause-effect relations,
the dynamical perspective emphasizes the temporal patterns and
potential for emergence in destructive relations. Attractor
deconstruction entails restoring complexity to a conflict scenario
by isolating elements or changing the feedback loops among them.
The creation of a latent attractor trades on the tendency toward
multi-stability in dynamical systems and entails the consolidation
of incongruent (positive) elements into a coherent structure. In
the bifurcation scenario, factors are identified that can change
the number and types of attractors in a conflict scenario. The
implementation of these strategies may hold the key to unlocking
intractable conflict, creating the potential for constructive
social relations.
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