Conflict Resolution in a Network Society

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Allen Nan
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Network Dynamics ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Meaningful Participation ◽  
Resolution Processes

AbstractThis article explores the import of the network society for conflict resolution, broadly defined. Defining networks as social structures which connect people to each other, the article highlights the dual potential impacts of networks on participation in conflict resolution processes. Network society discourse creates a discourse of inclusion while also offering opportunities for exclusion. Conflict resolution theory has embraced the inclusive potential of network dynamics both implicitly and explicitly. Peacebuilders use networks, with their potential for participation and connecting conflict resolution processes, levels, and sectors, in efforts to do their peacebuilding work better. However, not all networks support conflict resolution. Networks can also reinforce conflicts, institutionalize exploitation, exacerbate inequalities, and strengthen violent conflict movements. Networks can be distinguished as inclusive or exclusive. Inclusive networks are more suitable for supporting meaningful participation in conflict resolution processes, while exclusive networks entrench conflict. Vibrant networks incorporate more inclusive and more exclusive dynamics in network vitality that allows both flexibly incorporating diversity and developing clarity of focus that inevitably delineates areas (or people or activities) outside the area of focus. Meaningful inclusion and participation in conflict resolution negotiations is broadly possible through inclusive networks, but forms of exclusion from conflict resolution negotiations are equally possible outgrowths of exclusive networks.

The State of Our Knowledge

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Molly M. Melin
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Political Science ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Resolution Processes

This chapter draws together discussions of the puzzle of continued violent conflict from across social science disciplines, international organizations, and related media coverage. The chapter offers an overview of the main related research and the lack of conclusive findings, which helps explain why violence persists despite widespread international efforts to prevent it. This chapter offers an overview of the findings on conflict resolution processes by scholars in the field of political science. It then draws from business scholarship and overviews research suggesting the positive contributions the private sector can and does make toward peace. It concludes by highlighting the problems of having disjointed approaches and offering a conceptual framework for how these distinct approaches can be combined to generate a more comprehensive understanding of conflict resolution.

scholarly journals Conflict of Civil Society Movement and Government in the Process of Developing of The Job Creation Bill

PROPAGANDA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
M. Masad Masrur
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
The Government

The discussion room for the Work Creation Bill is officially located at the DPR RI Building. The discussion, which involved various interest groups, was deemed insufficient to accommodate the “rejecting” aspirations expressed by various community groups. Several community groups who are members of various civil society movements, held demonstrations outside the DPR RI Building as a venue for discussion of the Job Creation Bill. Demonstrations that also took place in these areas have caused damage to public facilities. According to Habermas's opinion, this condition is the result of structural domination, where the ruling group directs various forms of policy with instrumental communication that will not create understanding. In agreement with Gramsci, in this case, there is a political hegemony between one group against another. The government, which has an interest in immediately completing the deliberation of the Job Creation Bill, through the power of political domination, seeks to exercise hegemony against the civil society movement, causing violent conflict. Conflict resolution in the discussion of the Work Creation Bill is structurally carried out by using the state law approach in accordance with the prevailing laws and regulations. In accordance with the mandate of the constitution, all matters relating to regulations, a judicial review can be carried out at the Constitutional Court.

scholarly journals Probing The Functional Relationship Between Visual Working Memory and Conflict Resolution Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 75a
Author(s):  
Melissa E Moss ◽  
Atsushi Kikumoto ◽  
Jena Z Kunimune ◽  
Ulrich Mayr
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Visual Working Memory ◽  
Functional Relationship ◽  
Resolution Processes

The Social Consequences of Frequent versus Infrequent Apologizing PREPRINT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Schumann ◽  
Emily Grace Ritchie ◽  
Amanda Lynn Forest
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Resolution Processes

The effectiveness of interpersonal apologies is well established, but most existing research has examined the benefits of isolated apologies. How do apologies function when considered in the context of a transgressor’s apology baseline—the frequency with which they tend to apologize for their behavior? In three studies using correlational and experimental methods, we examined whether people consider others’ apology baselines when evaluating both their character and specific apologies from them. In Study 1, participants with high (vs. low) apology baselines believed that others judge them as higher in communion and lower in agency, which was consistent with how people actually judged high (vs. low) baseline apologizers (Studies 2 and 3). Having a high apology baseline was also indirectly associated with more favorable reactions to a specific apology via communion judgments. These studies are the first to examine apology baselines, revealing their importance for shaping interpersonal evaluations and conflict resolution processes.

Peace Processes in Northern Ireland and Turkey

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Aytaç Kadioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Peace Initiatives ◽  
Elite Level ◽  
Resolution Processes ◽  
The Impact

This book assesses the impact of political, non-violent resolution efforts in the Northern Irish and Turkish-Kurdish peace processes. It offers an important contribution to conflict-resolution research, theorising the various stages involved in the attempted resolution of asymmetric conflicts. By relying on primary sources, including interviews and recently declassified archival papers, it presents an innovative framework for conflict resolution, a starting-point for further research on managing peace processes and ethno-nationalist conflicts. This book challenges the notion of ‘conflict resolution’ in these two peace processes, both far-reaching ethno-nationalist conflicts in the post-Cold War era. Incorporating fieldwork carried out until 2015, the book compares these conflicts during major peace attempts, from early secret talks and semi-official peace initiatives, to multilateral and internationalised conflict-resolution processes through not only main armed protagonists, but also independent third parties. It analyses the political resolution efforts for ending the IRA and PKK’s armed campaigns and establishing a peace agreement. It argues that peace initiatives are ongoing processes which contain not only formal peace initiatives, but also informal and secret peace efforts. It suggests that formal and informal initiatives together embody conflict resolution processes through three major aspects: backchannel communications as the unofficial aspect, peace organisations as the informal and semi-official aspect, and negotiations as the official aspect of conflict resolution efforts, which operate at the elite level of conflict resolution.

A Theory for Knowing in the Network Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Ertan Dogan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Societal Changes

Rapid changes and developments in the information and communication technologies have led to societal transformation and emergence of new social structures. In consequence of these, information has become a vital necessity for every individual in the 21st century, and the social structures have been shaped within the framework of processes for diffusion of information. Moreover, technological and societal changes gave rise to the changes in the nature of information (formation and diffusion) and in the process of having access to the information. In this study, changes in the nature of information and knowing are being discussed on the basis of the theories explaining societal change after the industrial revolution. The study will refer to the characteristics of the learning theories and theoretically assess Connectivisim, which is suggested to be a theory for the contemporary era. This paper discusses Connectivism as an approach which explains learning within the social structures of the Network Society and the Post-Industrial Society based on the review of the theories.

A SYSTEM MAINTENANCE PROCESS FOR FACILIATING REQUESTS MANAGEMENT AND CONFLICTS RESOLUTION

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. 899-920 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHI-LUN LIU ◽  
HENG-LI YANG
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Feedback Process ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
System Maintenance ◽  
Resolution Processes ◽  
Maintenance Process ◽  
Process Controls ◽  
Request Management

Managing maintenance requests in information systems from stakeholders has been relatively neglected by academic researchers. This study proposes Enhancive Request Management (ERM), a method of managing enhancive requests from multiple stakeholders. The proposed method, based on hermeneutics, includes request formation, feedback, and conflict resolution processes. The request formation process is designed to handle the maintenance requests. The feedback process controls the changes of request formation results. And the conflict resolution process deals with diverse opinions. Besides, this work introduces a blog-based tool to support ERM. Two companies have tried this tool and provided some usage opinions. The empirical data reveals that the ERM methodology can improve request management works.

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