Churchman David. Why We Fight: The Origins, Nature and Management of Human Conflict. UPA,2013. — 336 p.. 2013
This book draws on twenty-four academic disciplines to provide a critical analysis of some 100 theories that explain the origins, nature, and management of human conflict. The book treats intellectual, individual, moral, interpersonal, organizational, community, political, and international conflicts. It suggests six criteria for distinguishing good from bad theory and discusses how existing theories may be used and improved.
Chapter 1 Criteria for Good Theory
It works in practice, yes, but does it work in theory? —Unknown French diplomat
Chapter 2 Conflict Analysis
In as much as mathematical theories relate to reality, they are not sure; in as much as they are sure, they are not related to reality —Albert Einstein
Chapter 3 The Nature of Man
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels… The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk, but how magnificently he has risen. —Robert Ardrey
Chapter 4 Aggression and the Mind
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. —Thomas Szasz
Chapter 5 Intellectual Conflict
I wish I were as sure of anything as you seem to be of everything. —Lord Melbourne to Thomas Macauley
Do not confuse the right to believe with the rightness of the belief. —unknown
Chapter 6 Moral Conflict
Ethics in politics is a martial art. —Daniel Henninger
It's often when the national interest is equated with a moral absolute that conflict tends to become violent, because in that case your adversary is judged to be immoral, and thus compromise becomes harder to achieve. —Robert Kaplan
Chapter 7 Interpersonal Conflict
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mom raths outgrabe…
“It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand!” (You see, she didn’t like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn’t make it out at all). “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!” —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Chapter 8 Gender Conflict
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to fool the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. —Rudyard Kipling
In this chapter, we consider conflicts stemming from sex discrimination, differences between men and women in communication style, sexual harassment, relational aggression, and the possibility of a peaceful world led by women based on claims of a matriarchal past.
Chapter 9 Organizational Conflict
If anything can go wrong, it will. —Murphy’s Law, sometimes known as Finagle’s Law of Dynamic Negatives
Chapter 10 Community Conflict
It’s time for us to turn to each other, not on each other. —Jesse Jackson
Chapter 11 Political Conflict
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service. —Calvin Coolidge
Chapter 12 Causes of War
Nations don’t fear each other because they are armed. They are armed because they fear each other. —Ronald Reagan
Chapter 13 Just War in Eight Cultures
An unjust peace is better than a just war —Cicero
A just war is better than an unjust peace —Unknown
Chapter 14 Interstate Conflict
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. —John Stuart Mill
Chapter 15 Asymmetric Conflict
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. —George Orwell
Did my provoked jape at Vickery, that rebellion was more like peace than war, hold as much truth as haste? —T. E. Lawrence
Chapter 16 The Search for Peace
Let him who desires peace prepare for war. Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Chapter 17 Dispute Resolution
Diplomacy without force is like music without instruments. —Frederick the Great
Chapter 18 Putting Conflict Theory to Use
Without a theory, the facts are silent —F. A. Hayek
Chapter 19 Improving Conflict Theory
To go boldly where no man has gone before. —Star Trek motto
Books and textbooks on the discipline General conflictology:
- Algert Nance, Rogers Kenita S.. Conflict Management and Dialogue in Higher Education. Information Age Publishing,2020. — 227 p. - 2020 ãîä
- Harker C., Horschelmann K. (Eds.). Conflict, Violence and Peace. Springer,2017. — 456 p. - 2017 ãîä
- Oetzel John, Ting-Toomey Stella. The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication: Integrating Theory, Research and Practice. SAGE Publications,2013. — 912 p. - 2013 ãîä
- Canary Daniel J., Lakey Sandra. Strategic Conflict. Routledge,2012. — 272 p. - 2012 ãîä
- Bercovitch Jacob, Kremenyuk Victor, Zartman I. William (eds).. The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution. SAGE Publications,2009. — 704 p. - 2009 ãîä
- Deutsch Morton, Coleman Peter T., Marcus Eric C.. The Handbook of Conflict Resolution. Theory and Practice. 2nd edition. — Jossey-Bass,2000. — 649 p. - 2000 ãîä
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