COMM 4880 Lecture 1: Chapter 1: The Nature Of Conflict
18 Jan 2018
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Conflict defined: perception is at the core of all conflict analysis, conflict is an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce resources, and interference from other in achieving their goals. Interdependence: conflict parties engage in an expressed struggle and interfere with one another because they are interdependent, strategic conflict, mutual interdependence, gridlock conflicts. Perceived incompatible goals: people engage in conflict over goals that are important to them, perceived incompatible goals. Perceived scarce resources: a resource can be defined as any positively perceived physical, economic, or social consequence , power and self-esteem. Interference: interference, or the perception of interference, is necessary to complete the conditions for conflict. Preventing destructive conflict: to prevent means to anticipate, to forestall, to come before, to be in readiness for an occasion, to derive something of power, to hold or keep back, and to deal with beforehand.
