Enhancing Environmental Quality and Sustainability through Negotiation and Conflict Management: Research into Systems, Dynamics, and Practices

Climate change is the largest and most complicated interdependent issue the world has confronted. Yet there is little negotiation and conflict management knowledge within the climate change context. To address this gap, this theoretical article reviews the sparse extant literature and provides a brief overview of the science of climate change public policy. This review establishes a foundation for examining negotiation and conflict management research questions that emanate from current and future climate change negotiations. Such questions are considered for climate change mitigation negotiations and climate change adaptation negotiations. This article demonstrates how the negotiation and conflict management field can make important contributions to the study of interdependency in a context of climate change.

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Conflict Management in Illicit Drug Cryptomarkets

International Criminal Justice Review ◽

10.1177/1057567717709498 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 237-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Carlo Morselli ◽

David Décary-Hétu ◽

Masarah Paquet-Clouston ◽

Judith Aldridge

Keyword(s):

Conflict Management ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Third Party ◽

Control Mechanisms ◽

Drug Markets ◽

Discussion Forums ◽

Management Research ◽

Third Party Intervention ◽

Illegal Market

Illegal drug markets have been described as “stateless” systems. Drug dealers, moreover, are commonly considered to have a predilection toward the use of violence to resolve disputes arising from dealing activities. While some studies have undermined this popular perception, new trends surrounding the distribution of illegal drugs via online channels (drug cryptomarkets) have shifted the transactional setting from the physical to virtual realm, thus decreasing the likelihood of violent resolution outcomes even further. This article examines conflict management strategies within cryptomarkets by coding discussion forums between vendors and buyers. Violence, as expected, is absent. Strategies more likely reflect alternatives that have been recognized in conflict management research within and beyond illegal market settings: tolerance, avoidance, ostracism, third-party intervention, negotiation, and threats. The overall setting from which such resolutions emerge is clearly not subject to formal regulations, but our analyses illustrate the multitude of informal social control mechanisms that are consistently at play and which underlie the self-regulatory and communal processes that are firmly in place.

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Exploring Conflict Management Using Qualitative Approach

Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business ◽

10.22146/gamaijb.6150 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 65

Author(s):

Zaleha Yazid

Keyword(s):

Conflict Management ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Management Research ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Telephone Interviews ◽

Research Activities ◽

Contextual Understanding ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Collection Methods

This paper focuses on qualitative methods in researching the area of conflict management, specifically in Self-Managed Project Team (SMPT). The research aims to explore the evolvement of conflict management strategies in SMPT as this type of team is given the responsibility to solve problems and make decision by themselves. The inductive approach will overcome the limitation of quantitative method in management research as one of its objectives is to explain the different elements of the explored social system and their interconnection. Hence, it aims at the contextual understanding of social behavior rather than extensive measurement. This paper also includes the research activities in details such as the data collection methods which involved semi-structured interviews and weekly telephone interviews. The findings of the research proposed that conflict management strategies in SMPT changes over time from confrontation and cooperative style towards avoidance due to the issues of reputation and the deadline.

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