Conflict theory: origins, evolution, management and resolution

Chapters

• Chap. 1 Conflict: critical initial concepts
• Ch. 2 Strategies in the face of conflict
• Ch. 3 The evolution of conflicts
• Chap. 4 Scaling
• Ch. 5 The tendency for scaling to become irreversible
• The crises
• Ch. 7 The long-term effects of successive conflicts
• Ch. 8 Scaling slowdown, stagnation, and subsequent evolutions
• Chap. 9 Some initial considerations
• Chap. 10 The management, after the fait accompli, of escalated conflicts
• Ch. 11 Preventive management of escalation
• Ch. 12 Back to attempts to generate movement toward resolution
• Ch. 13 Pre-negotiation processes and the conditions they seek to generate
• Ch. 14 Intervention of a third party before a negotiation
• Ch. 15 The theory of negotiation
• Ch. 16 Other essential elements of bargaining theory
• Ch. 17 Intervention of a third party during a negotiation: Mediation
• Chap. 18 Back to the distinction between conflict and escalation
• Ch. 19 Difficulties with the application of the theories presented
• Ch. 20 Reconciliation
• Chap. 21 Final reflections