The Structure of International Conflict

by C. R. Mitchell

Overview

The Structure of International Conflict seeks to be of some permanent use to all students interested in penetrating beneath the surface details and ostensible dissimilarities of specific wars, disputes and quarrels to the basic structure that underlies all human conflicts, from the most peaceful to the most violent, lethal and destructive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312024147
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/15/1989
Edition description:	1981
Pages:	355
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER MITCHELL is Emeritus Professor at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in Virginia, USA, and was for a time its Director. His main interests continue to focus on informal processes seeking durable solutions to intractable conflicts, both international and local. He is the author of Gestures of Conciliation and, with Landon Hancock, is the co-editor of Local Zones of Peace.

Table of Contents

List of Tables - List of Figures - Foreword - Introduction - PART 1 THE STRUCTURE OF CONFLICT - Structure - Conflict Situations - Processes - PART 2 CONDUCTING CONFLICT - Psychological Dimensions of Conflict - Perceptions During Conflict - Conflict Behaviour - Conflict Behaviour as Communication - PART 3 ENDING CONFLICT - Conflict Termination - Settlement Strategies - The Structure of Negotiations - PART 4 CONTAINING CONFLICT - Managing Conflict - Peacemaking - Afterword: Future Directions - Notes - Bibliography - Index