CONCLUSION
The CR field is in continuing evolution. The breadth of interests considered continues to expand both in the range of conflict stages and in the variety of conflicts that are of interest.
The field is necessarily becoming more differentiated, with workers in the field specializing in particular kinds and stages of conflicts and particular aspects and methods of conflict resolution.The CR field is likely to increase in size and societal penetration in the future. The need and the potentiality for growth are great in many regions of the world, notably the Middle East, parts of Asia, and in Western and Central Africa. Furthermore, the need for increased knowledge and application of the CR approach is growing. Intensifying world integration is a source of more and more potentially destructive conflicts, as well as a source of reasons to reduce and contain them. The cost of failing to prevent and stop destructive conflicts is rising and CR can help foster more constructive methods to wage and resolve conflicts. Traditional reliance on coercive impositions with little regard to possible mutual gains and reasonable regard for opponents’ concerns is proving to be increasingly maladapted to contemporary global developments.