Conflict resolution has emerged as a viable way to help students acknowledge their feelings and communicate with others in times of difficulty. This paper describes how teachers at the University of Pittsburgh's Falk Laboratory School have integrated conflict resolution with character education, thus providing students with the right language to…

Increasingly, children who learn good conflict-management skills find themselves negotiating with kids who would rather fight--even over minor matters like cutting into line, taking a pencil, or touching a classmate's desk. A Pittsburgh teacher has worked to create a physically and emotionally safe classroom and devised a Students Against Violence…

Managers who foster innovation succeed in getting different approaches to grate against one another in a productive process called creative abrasion. They nurture and know how to use a cognitively diverse environment. (JOW)

Argues that students need to become aware that heroism applies not just to physical strength or violence in conflict resolution, but also to the heroic act of trying to find meaning through the process of composition. Points out concepts which can help students discover the concerns of each story for themselves. (SG)

Conflict resolution training teaches students to manage interpersonal conflict more constructively. This approach to safe schools has benefits but needs more research to demonstrate effectiveness. Alberta's Safe and Caring Schools project is a replicable example. (Contains 25 references.) (SK)

Examines resolution of referential conflicts in second-language (L2) interaction in two different pairings of L2 learners. Pairs where the higher proficiency member was in the dominant role engaged in little interactive behavior, whereas pairs where the less proficient member was dominant engaged in substantial negotiation and interaction and were…

Recounts an interview with cultural critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Explains that the study of cultural politics is an examination of how politics devises cultural explanations for managing crises. Argues that the composition theory/practice distinction is artificial. Suggests that mediation of two positions often favors one side or the other.…

An Elmira, New York, elementary school resolves its playground disputes by allowing students to settle most of their own disagreements with the help of upperelementary students trained as conflict managers. Adult supervisors stop fights and give disputants a choice: discuss the problem with the principal or the conflict managers. Kids invariably…

Defines the cooperative group decision-making process of consensus, contrasts it with voting and compromise, and presents an illustrative situation. Describes individual consensus skills, the role of group facilitator, pitfalls of the process, and use of consensus in educational settings and large organizations. (SV)

Conflict often arises among researchers when papers are reviewed, articles refereed, or peer reviews undertaken, because one's philosophy of research affects one's perception of it. This article presents a perspective of how professionals should consider their philosophy, demonstrating an interrelationship among kinds of research, philosophies…

Notes that social scientists are exploring macro applications of human behavior theory to peace interventions. Provides an overview of an international intervention conducted by Carl R. Rogers and his colleagues. Describes the format of the Central American Challenge, an international conference conducted in Rust, Austria; conference participants;…

Discusses five causes of unjust conflict that may originate in religious commitment including arrogant intolerance; hostile remembrance; ethnocentrism; fundamentalism; and religious myths. Causes of conflict other than religion are suggested, and religion as a force for peace and unity is discussed. (KRN)

Examined whether children's goals in peer conflict situations were related to the strategies they proposed for resolving conflicts, and how these strategies were related to acceptance by peers. Subjects were 142 fourth through sixth graders. Found that peer acceptance was negatively related to hostile/coercive strategies for girls, and negatively…

Organizational endurance depends on a leader's adherence to a moral code while gaining consensus to accomplish goals. Gaining consensus means dealing with each follower's conflicting moral codes. The result is indecisiveness, guilt, or creation of a substitute action to harmonize code differences. This article presents a model ethical code based…

Authorized by Title X of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Community Relations Service (CRS) is a mediation service dealing with community racial disputes. CRS has spent much of the past three years working in Los Angeles and is now handling problem solving in multiracial, multicultural schools in Stockton, California. Workshop participants usually…