conflict management

Argues that fighting is not an inevitable part of human nature and explains how individuals can step into several roles that prevent, resolve, or contain conflicts ranging from family struggles to international wars.

Provides parents and educators techniques for identifying, assessing, and managing threatening behavior by students in school settings and describes strategies which can be used to manage potentially violent situations.

Uses a fifteen-step model to teach children how to get along with each other and resolve conflicts.

Presents theater games and playwriting activities for adolescents and explains how to use drama to help students understand internal and external conflicts and deal with them nonviolently.

A student manual to be used with the "Peer Mediation Conflict Resolution in Schools" program guide, covering both basic and advanced training, and including peer mediation forms, and a glossary.

Argues against the commonly held notion that violence is a predictable part of the human condition and outlines a program for preventing violent confrontations.

Examines several obstacles to conflict resolution and explains to professional mediators how to take risks to facilitate fundamental changes in the parties involved, discussing such topics as fear, apathy, dishonesty, desire for revenge, spirituality, forgiveness, fascism, and conflict resolution systems design and the United Nations.

Presents an eight-step method for resolving differences of opinion at home, work, and in the community; and provides a discussion of conflict and its resolution.

Presents reasons for teaching emotional intelligence in schools, discusses behavior from the psychology of control theory, and provides seven control-theory-based activities on behavior.