NCJ Number
161462
Date Published
1993
Length
42 pages
Annotation
This work examines interpersonal conflicts and suggests ways to deal with and resolve them.
Abstract
Information and suggestions are presented in six general categories: (1) Understanding Our Reactions to Conflict, including discussion of becoming more comfortable with differences and conflict as a learned behavior; (2) Seeing Conflict Differently, including ways to measure one's comfort level with differences and to rethink conflict resolution, and the possibility of conflict transformation; (3) Self-Reflection, including evaluation of how we react to differences and conflicts and assessment of our own role in the tense relationship; (4) Centering on Inner Power, on a higher force, a spiritual dimension an energy that individuals experience and define in different ways; (5) Turning Inner Power Into Transforming Power, including alternatives to violence; (6) Defining Our Options, which can be action-oriented or thought-centered, and include not pursuing the matter further, pursuing it with the other person, waiting for a moment of grace, and seeking a mediator. Footnotes, bibliography