Scale-Specific but Inter-Linked Strategies for Managing Forest Resource Conflicts in Ghana: Forest Professionals’ Views

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-119
Author(s):  
Mercy Derkyi
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Crop Damage ◽  
Forest Resource ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Resource Conflicts ◽  
Compensation Payment ◽  
Constructive Conflict ◽  
Forestry Sector

Constructive conflict management strategies according to forest professionals have the potential to minimise the prevalence offorest resource conflicts at different levels of scale in Ghana’s high forest zone. The paper therefore employed mixed methodsin gathering data on conflict causes, prevailing and alternative conflict management strategies from forest professionals’perspectives. Results revealed multifaceted forest resource conflict causes such as: i) weak implementation of policystrategies and actions; ii) absence of guidelines on crop damage compensation payment; iii) boundary disputes; iv) farmlandscarcity; and v) local elite capture of social responsibility agreement negotiation process and benefits. It was also ascertainedthat prevailing conflict management strategies are diverse but strategies used are based on case-by-case approaches whichlack clearly defined conflict management mechanism to redress the numerous grievances in the sector. It is in view of that theforest professionals recommended scale-specific but inter-linked strategies to be institutionalised in the forestry sector.

Conflict Management

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Elgoibar ◽  
Martin Euwema ◽  
Lourdes Munduate
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Constructive Controversy ◽  
Constructive Conflict ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Constructive Conflict Management ◽  
Contingency Approach

Conflicts are part of nature and certainly part of human relations, between individuals, as well as within and between groups. Conflicts occur in every domain of life: family, work, and society, local and global. Conflict management, therefore, is an essential competency for each person. People differ largely in their emotional and behavioral responses to conflict and need to learn how to behave effectively in different conflict situations. This requires a contingency approach, first assessing the conflict situation, and then choosing a strategy, matching the goals of the party. In most situations, fostering cooperative relations will be most beneficial; however, this is also most challenging. Therefore, constructive conflict management strategies, including trust building and methods of constructive controversy, are emphasized. Conflict management, however, is broader than the interaction of the conflicting parties. Third-party interventions are an essential element of constructive conflict management, particularly the assessment of which parties are intervening in what ways at what escalation stage.

scholarly journals Conflict Consulting Clinic as a Method of Practical Training of Humanities Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-133
Author(s):  
A. I. Strebkov ◽  
A. N. Sunami
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Clinical Form ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Practical Activity ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Educational Standard

Conflictology as an educational program aimed at training specialists in the field of conflict resolution includes not only theoretical aspects, it is focused on modern practice. This stems both from the interdisciplinary subject field of conflict management, which combines the fundamental and applied components, as well as the needs of the labor market and the students themselves. At the same time, being in the circle of social sciences and humanities, conflict management faces the traditional challenges for this industry, associated with the most relevant forms of organizing students’ practical work. The article analyzes the unique experience of the clinical form of organizing the practice of students majoring in conflictology, which has been implemented at St. Petersburg State University for 10 years. The practice of students, organized in the form of a conflict consulting clinic, first of all solves the problem of adapting students to the conditions and requirements of the practical activity of a conflictologist. The authors focus on the issues of correlating the clinical form to the requirements of the newest educational standard. The main forms and stages of students’ work in the clinic are presented. The article describes the opportunities of students in acquiring the skills and abilities in conflict resolution, organizing and conducting the negotiation process, mastering conflict management strategies. The authors conclude that the conflict consulting clinic is a complex pedagogical methodology that includes both in-class and out-of-class forms of student practical activity in working with real cases based on client requests and promoting mediation, as well as teacher supervision with rhythmically organized discussion and correction of students’ actions, which ensures due professionalism and quality services provided by students to external consumers.

Pathways to connection: An intensive longitudinal examination of state and dispositional hope, day quality, and everyday interpersonal interaction

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110019
Author(s):  
Andy J. Merolla ◽  
Quinten Bernhold ◽  
Christina Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
State Agency ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
Hope Theory ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Constructive Conflict ◽  
Dispositional Hope ◽  
Constructive Conflict Management ◽  
Longitudinal Examination

Building on hope theory, this study demonstrates that state and trait hope are associated with daily interpersonal experiences. Multilevel modeling of daily diary data ( N = 127 adults) indicated that state hope—composed of the dual factors of pathways (i.e., the ability to devise routes toward goals) and agency (i.e., motivation to pursue devised routes)—was negatively associated with amount of daily interpersonal conflict, positively associated with constructive conflict management when conflict occurred, and negatively associated with daily challenges in maintaining relationships. These relationships were found largely at the within-person level. Further, and consistent with central tenets of hope theory, moderated multilevel models showed that within-person state pathways and agency thinking were more strongly associated with day quality on days when individuals experienced higher-than-usual levels of relational maintenance challenges. Finally, in an extension of hope theory, multilevel models showed that dispositional pathways and between-person state agency were positively linked to momentary feelings of connection as captured by experience sampling over a 7-day period. Overall, the findings contribute to the continued expansion of hope theory into the study of social and personal relationships.

How Democracies Keep the Peace: Contextual Factors that Influence Conflict Management Strategies

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glynn Ellis ◽  
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell ◽  
Brandon C. Prins
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Management Strategies

scholarly journals Conflict Management Strategies in the ICU Differ Between Palliative Care Specialists and Intensivists

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 934-942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Chiarchiaro ◽  
Douglas B. White ◽  
Natalie C. Ernecoff ◽  
Praewpannarai Buddadhumaruk ◽  
Rachel A. Schuster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Management Strategies

The Interplay of Perceptions and Conflict Behaviors during Disagreements: A Daily Study of Physical Teen Dating Violence Perpetration

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110219
Author(s):  
Andréanne Fortin ◽  
Alison Paradis ◽  
Martine Hébert ◽  
Andréanne Lapierre
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Teen Dating Violence ◽  
Dating Relationships ◽  
Daily Diaries ◽  
Conflict Behaviors ◽  
Adolescent Dating ◽  
Destructive Conflict ◽  
The Individual

Physical dating violence (DV) is a widespread problem among adolescents. A growing body of literature demonstrates that physical DV often occurs during disagreements when partners use destructive conflict management strategies, such as conflict engagement (e.g., losing control, criticizing) or withdrawal (e.g., acting cold, being distant). However, little is known regarding how the individual daily variability on the use of destructive conflict management strategies can influence the probability of perpetrating day-to-day physical DV, especially if the other partner is also perceived as using destructive behaviors. Using an intensive longitudinal approach, the current study first aimed to examine the daily associations between the use of various conflict management strategies and physical DV perpetration in adolescent dating relationships. A second objective was to investigate if perceived partner’s conflict behaviors moderated the relation between self-reported conflict management strategies and day-to-day physical DV perpetration. A sample of 216 adolescents ( Mage = 17.03, SD = 1.49) involved in a dating relationship, completed a baseline assessment followed by 14 daily diaries. Results of multilevel logistic analyses revealed that using conflict engagement strategies significantly increased the probability of day-to-day physical DV perpetration. Furthermore, the probability of perpetrating physical DV was significantly higher on days in which teens reported using high levels of conflict engagement while also perceiving their partner as using high levels of conflict engagement or withdrawal. These findings yield new insights on the daily context in which disagreements might escalate into aggression. Evidence from this study further supports the conflict escalation pattern and the demand/withdraw communication pattern in the context of adolescent dating relationships. Preventive initiatives should address the interplay of perceptions and conflict behaviors concerning physical DV perpetration.

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