Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Criteria for Good Theory
Useful
Empirical
Logical
Falsifiable
Parsimonious
Generalizable
2. Conflict Analysis
Three major roles for Mathematics in Conflict Theory
Risk
Prisoners' Dilemma
Bayes's Theorem
Lattice Theory
Pareto Optimization
Strategic Choice
Fair Division
3. The Nature of Man
Aggression
Early Man
Biology of Aggression
Sociobiology
Aggression in Primates
4. Aggression and the Mind
Aggression as Instinct
Frustration-Aggression
Aggression as Learned Behavior
Human Needs Theory
Psychiatric Theories
5. Intellectual Conflict
Man
History
Society
Nature
God
The Importance of Dissent
6. Moral Conflict
The Origins of Morality
Individual Moral Development
Four Forms of Moral Conflict
Managing Moral Conflicts
7. Interpersonal Conflict
Personality and Conflict
Personality Types and their Measurement
The "Generation Gap"
Low Conflict Societies
Family Conflict
Dual Variable Models
Power
Linguistic Models of Communications
Systems Models of Communication
Social Models of Communication
Culture and Interpersonal Conflicts
8. Gender Conflict
Discrimination
Communication Style
Sexual Harassment
Relational Aggression
Women in Peace and War
The Matriarchal Past
9. Organizational Conflict
Organizational Development
Labor-Management Conflict
Leadership
Crisis Management
Competitive Strategy
Law of Unintended Consequences
10. Community Conflict
Class Conflict
Ethnic Conflict
Gangs
Hostage Crises
Conflict and Stress
Wisdom of Crowds
11. Political Conflict
Governmental Systems
Deliberative Assemblies
Voting Systems
Redistricting
Vote Fraud
Tax Systems
Tragedy of the Commons and the Free Rider Problem
12. Causes of War
Reproductive Success
Ecological Equilibrium
Territorial Imperative
Relative Deprivation
Nation-States
Characteristics of States
Number of Bordering State
Polarity
Human Rights
Arms Races
Correlates of War
Expected Utility
13. Just War in Eight Cultures
The Roman Catholic Tradition
The Greek Orthodox Tradition
The Jewish Tradition
The Muslim Tradition
The Hindu Tradition
The Buddhist Tradition
The Chinese Tradition
The Japanese Tradition
Just War Today
14. Interstate Conflict
Origins of War
Types of War
Strategic and Tactical Theory
Strategic Geography
15. Asymmetric Conflict
Economic Warfare
Humanitarian War
Guerilla or Low Intensity Warfare
Terrorism
Counter-terrorism
Piracy
Cyber Warfare
Lawfare
16. The Search for Peace
What is Peace?
Diplomacy
Track II Diplomacy
Department of Peace
Arms Control vs. Peace through Strength
Balance of Power
World Government and Peacekeeping
Pacifism and Nonviolence
Reconciliation
Is Mankind Becoming Increasingly Peaceful?
17. Dispute Resolution
Torts
Negotiation
Distributive Negotiation
Integrative Negotiation
Third-Party Interventions
Large-scale Third Party Intervention
The Agreement Circumplex
18. Putting Conflict Theory to Use
19. Improving Conflict Theory
Appendix: Major Fallacies in Logic
Bibliography
Index
Author Biography
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