Effective Conflict Resolution Research Articles

Managing State Parks in Brazil: Strategies for Resolving Conflicts and Promoting Sustainable Conservation Practices

This opinion article examines the challenges associated with State Parks management in Brazil and the resolution of conflicts that arise between managers and local communities. Through a comprehensive and collaborative approach, we highlight the importance of understanding the social, cultural and historical contexts in which these conflicts occur. Introduction: We aim to critically analyze the management challenges of State Parks in Brazil, with a specific focus on conflicts with the surrounding population. Methods: This opinion article is based on the existing literature to analyze the constant conflicts in the management of State Parks in Brazil. We explore factors that contribute to these conflicts, such as differing interests, values and expectations. Results: Our analysis highlights the complexities of conflicts between park managers and local communities in Brazil. We present practical strategies for dealing with these conflicts, such as participatory decision-making processes, training staff and local communities, and strengthening partnerships between park managers and local stakeholders. In this way, we identify possible solutions to resolve these conflicts and promote sustainable and effective conservation practices. Conclusions: The management of State Parks in Brazil requires a differentiated understanding of the social, cultural and historical context in which these parks are inserted. We propose that incorporating participatory decision-making processes, empowering park staff and local communities, and strengthening partnerships can facilitate effective conflict resolution and sustainable conservation practices. Our findings have implications for protected area management around the world and highlight the need for further research in this area.

Assertiveness as a New Strategy for Physical Education Students to Maintain Academic Performance

Serious problems occur in social life. In several cases in Indonesia, students often abuse their group collectivity and social relations with disciplinary behaviour such as following peer persuasion to spend much time hangout so that students neglect to manage study time, complete study assignments, and even be absent from lectures.. However, other students have managed to control unproductive social relations (persuasion to hang out during class hours, inducement not to do coursework, and others) to stabilize their academic performance with assertiveness. This explore student assertiveness strategies. At the same time, they were projecting strategic assertiveness protocols to maintain their academic performance. This qualitative study involved 11 purposefully sampled university students. Student assertiveness strategies were explored using observation, interview, and documentation techniques. Spardley’s (1979) domain analysis technique and Miles and Huberman's (1994) analytical procedure were used to find meaning and project assertive syntax. The study results suggest that students tend to show assertiveness, permissiveness, and aggressiveness in effective dialogue, constructive feedback, conflict resolution, and non-verbal communication domains. However, students who had good academic performance were more effective in using assertiveness. Furthermore, our study identified six strategic models (syntax) that students use to maintain their academic performance, namely: (1) being open, objective, and rational in expressing their aspirations, (2) being firm and brave when making decisions, (3) believing in one's abilities, (4) prioritizing priorities, (5) carry out obligations without disturbing the rights of other colleagues, and (6) accept differences of opinion/views. As a result, students can use assertiveness to maintain and control destructive behaviour in their environment and social relations to remain achievers while keeping being friendly in maintaining and building social relationships. Lecturers and administrators need to do assertive training and assistance to their students on an ongoing basis so that students have additional soft skills that help them succeed in the academic field and the future.

Профилактика и разрешение конституционных конфликтов на территории Арктической зоны Российской Федерации

Stable development and security of the Arctic zone of Russia demand effective resolution and prevention of conflicts. The purpose of this study is to determine the main parameters of the legal model for the prevention and resolution of conflicts, including the development of methodological foundations and the elaboration of the terminological field. The main research methods are legal modeling and special methods of conflict research conducted by general, legal and constitutional conflictology. The main conclusions of the study are that stable peace and civil harmony are the result of the processes of managing, preventing and resolving conflicts. The role of law is manifested in the fact that it not only resolves the conflict, but also performs an integrative, conciliatory and stimulating function. Due to the scale and public nature of the possible consequences, special attention should be paid to the prevention and resolution of constitutional conflicts, which predetermines the increasing role of constitutional law in ensuring peace in the Arctic zone. The results of the research indicate the presence of five interrelated levels, structural and direct conflict prevention should be carried out at every level. Conflict resolution is also a complex process, the methods and mechanisms of resolution need to be supplemented and adapted, taking into account the peculiarities of conflict in the Arctic zone. The author demonstrates the interrelation between the processes of socio-economic development and ensuring peace and civil harmony, presents recommendations for improving the existing legal model.

Application of social technologies for conflict management in the social and labor sphere

The article aims to study the peculiarities of the application of social technologies of conflict management in the social and labor sphere. The work proves the need for the development and application of social technologies as an effective tool for the prevention and effective resolution of social conflicts, which is based on taking into account the stages of its development - the pre-conflict (latent phase), actualized conflict (conflict stage/escalation); post-conflict (completion stage) and socio-psychological factors of the conflict - the conflict of the environment, the conflict of the individual and the psychological states of the individual. The approach proposed in the article consists of applying separate social technologies for each match stage. At the pre-conflict stage, work should be aimed at forecasting, preventing, and preventing competition, which involves using diagnostic social technologies. At the location of the actualized conflict - the termination of the parties' confrontation with the help of managerial social technologies; in the post-conflict period - normalization of social and labor relations and improvement of social interaction through social learning technologies. The developed social technology of conflict management performs expert-consulting functions based on a comprehensive diagnostic analysis of socio-psychological factors (conflict environment, conflict personality, and psychological states of the character) and makes it possible to put forward reasonable proposals for the prevention, localization, and regulation of conflicts depending on the results obtained. The practical use of the proposed labor conflict management model will ensure that conflict prevention and prevention will allow to obtain constructive results, which will increase the effectiveness of social and labor relations at the enterprise. Keywords: social interaction, conflict, labor process, social technologies of conflict management.

Minority stress and intimate partner aggression among male same‐sex couples

AbstractIntimate partner aggression (IPA) is high among gay, bisexual, queer, and other sexual minority men (SMM), and is strongly linked to minority stress. These links might be further magnified or buffered by communication between partners (i.e., negative and positive communication, respectively). The present study investigated associations of minority stress and IPA, and the moderating role of positive/negative communication, among male couples (N = 932 individuals, 466 couples). Partners completed measures of communication skills, minority stress, and IPA, which were analyzed using moderated actor‐partner interdependence models. Results suggested that microaggressions increase one's own (i.e., an actor effect) and one's partner's (i.e., a partner effect) verbal IPA victimization, verbal IPA perpetration, and physical IPA victimization. Positive communication moderated the association between microaggressions and verbal IPA victimization, suggesting that high levels of positive communication may buffer the microaggression‐verbal IPA link. Thus, minority stress' detrimental impacts on relationship functioning among male same‐sex couples may be reduced by the presence of positive communication (e.g., effective conflict resolution). We discuss structural and clinical innovations to prevent IPA among male couples, with particular emphasis on the absence of positive communication as an aggravating factor.

Heart rate variability may index emotion dysregulation in alcohol-related intimate partner violence.

Intimate partner violence is a serious public health problem that costs the United States more than $4.1 billion in direct medical and mental health costs alone. Furthermore, alcohol use contributes to more frequent and more severe intimate partner violence incidents. Compounding this problem is treatments for intimate partner violence have largely been socially informed and demonstrate poor efficacy. We argue that improvements in intimate partner treatment will be gained through systematic scientific study of mechanisms through which alcohol is related to intimate partner violence. We hypothesize that poor emotional and behavioral regulation as indexed by the respiratory sinus arrythymia measure of heart rate variability is a key mechanism between alcohol use and intimate partner violence. The present study is a placebo-controlled alcohol administration study with an emotion-regulation task that investigated heart rate variability in distressed violent and distressed nonviolent partners. We found a main effect for alcohol on heart rate variability. We also found a four-way interaction whereby distressed violent partners exhibited significant reductions in heart rate variability when acutely intoxicated and attempting to not respond to their partners evocative stimuli. These findings suggest that distressed violent partners may adopt maladaptive emotion regulation strategies such as rumination and suppression when intoxicated and attempting to not respond to partner conflict. Such strategies of emotion regulation have been shown to have many deleterious emotional, cognitive and social consequences for individuals who adopt them, possibly including intimate partner violence. These findings also highlight an important novel treatment target for intimate partner violence and suggest that novel treatments should focus on teaching effective conflict resolution and emotion-regulation strategies that may be augmented by biobehavioral treatments such as heart rate variability biofeedback.

Investigating the involvement of cognitive control processes in innovative and adaptive creativity and their age-related changes.

Based on the two-factor model of creativity, two distinct types of creative problem solving can be differentiated: innovative ("do things differently") and adaptive ("do things better"). Flexible cognitive control is a crucial concept in connection with both general and specific styles of creativity: innovative problem-solving benefits from broader attention and flexible mental set shifting; while adaptive creativity relies on focused attention and persistent goal-oriented processes. We applied an informatively cued task-switching paradigm which is suitable for measuring different cognitive control processes and mechanisms like proactive and reactive control. We hypothesized that adaptive creativity is connected to effective proactive control processes, while innovative creativity is based on reactive task-execution. As we have found no previous evidence how age-related changes in cognitive control affects creative cognition; we also examined the effect of healthy aging on different problem-solving styles in an explorative way. Our participants, 37 younger (18-30 years) and 37 older (60-75 years) adults, were divided into innovative and adaptive creative groups according to the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking's Figural Subtest (Hungarian version). Our results showed that among younger adults the adaptively creative group had larger cue-locked CNV component (effective preparatory activity connected to proactive control), while the innovatively creative group had a larger target-locked P3b component (effective target evaluation and categorization in line with reactive control) which supports a functional difference in the two creative styles. By contrast, in older adults innovative problem-solving showed larger mixing costs (less effective maintenance and selection of task sets), and the lack of trial type effect on target-locked N2b (target-induced goal reactivation and less effective conflict resolution); while adaptive problem-solving caused them to make fewer errors (accuracy-oriented behavior). All in all, innovative and adaptive creativity is based on distinct cognitive control mechanisms in both age-groups, but their processing level is affected by age-related changes.

Game-based exercise focused on emotional intelligence

This study explores the rising vitality of socio-emotional skills, or 'soft skills,' within industrial engineering in Industry 4.0. Anchoring in Daniel Goleman's emotional intelligence theory and Arik Carmeli's explorations, it underscores how emotional intelligence propels optimal work attitudes and behaviors. The research implements a playful activity aimed at strengthening emotional and social competencies, particularly emphasizing self-awareness, self-management, and social skills. Executed in a strictly controlled and monitored environment and leveraging experiential learning methods, the study anticipates participants will enhance their capabilities in effective communication, conflict resolution, team leadership, and adaptation to dynamic and complex work contexts.

Adequate legal rules in settling metaverse disputes: Hybrid legal framework for metaverse dispute resolution (HLFMDR)

The term “metaverse” refers to a virtual reality setting where users may engage in sustained and immersive interactions with other users and digital information. The metaverse offers new potential for entertainment, education, commerce, sociability, and creativity; therefore, it is anticipated to play a significant role in the future of the digital economy. However, the metaverse presents additional difficulties in resolving conflicts that can develop between its users, producers, and providers. Intellectual property rights, privacy, contract enforcement, fraud, harassment, and cybercrime are some of the concerns that may be raised in these conflicts. The existing legal system for settling these conflicts is disjointed and insufficient since it does not consider the metaverse’s unique qualities and complexity. This study investigates the present legal framework to provide fair and effective conflict resolution in the metaverse. It then establishes tenable fundamentals within the context of scientific and legal foundations. and propose a theoretical model named Hybrid Legal Framework for Metaverse Dispute Resolution (HLFMDR).

Contextual importance of leadership and management training in undergraduate medical education: Literature review

Leadership is recently known to be necessary at all levels within an organization, causing it to be extremely important for new graduates to understand what leadership is and to be familiar with different key leadership and management competencies. Leadership is also an integral part of medical practice. However, at present several medical colleges do not have a leadership and management curriculum, and thus, our medical college is not preparing its undergraduates in such skills as effective communication, conflict resolution, and time management. The search terms used were undergraduate medical leadership and management programs, undergraduate medical student leadership development programs, student leadership, and management training, clinical leadership, challenges of leadership and management programs in medical colleges, and skills needed for leadership and management course development. The review has shed light on skills needed for proposing a program on leadership and management for students at medical universities. The review also provided a rich combination of definitions of leadership, challenges to the type of leadership as well as how other medical organizations approach leadership and management. The theories suggest approaching competencies for leadership rather than building on pure theoretical knowledge of leadership. Furthermore, the research suggests differentiating the leadership training for undergraduate students based on how to add value to their career/study progressions, standardization, and organizational contribution. The literature further revealed the different challenges and barriers to developing leadership and management programs in medical colleges.

Human-Wildlife Conflict Management: Towards a Comprehensive Strategies for Sustainable Coexistence in Conservancies in Laikipia County

The article explores the rampant issue of human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) in conservancies, primarily focusing on Laikipia County, Kenya. In response to the escalating global challenge of HWC, privately run conservancies have emerged as a proactive approach to safeguarding natural ecosystems while promoting responsible resource utilization. These conservancies also aim to reshape societal perceptions and behaviors regarding wildlife. However, the conservancies in Laikipia County currently face a significant HWC crisis due to the encroachment of human activities into wildlife habitats. This encroachment has led to adverse consequences for biodiversity conservation and local livelihoods. The insufficiency of existing control measures necessitates the development of comprehensive strategies that can effectively reduce conflicts, protect the interests of both human and wildlife populations, and ensure the long-term viability of conservancies. The study employs the socio-ecological systems (SES) theory as its foundational framework. Research within Laikipia County involves diverse participants, including conservancy staff, community leaders, and representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engaged in community outreach. The study adopts a mixed-methods approach, utilizing questionnaires and interviews to collect primary and secondary data. Quantitative data is analyzed using SPSS version 21, while qualitative analysis uncovers underlying patterns and themes in the dataset. The study’s findings emphasize the pivotal role of community engagement and strategic land use planning in mitigating human-wildlife conflicts. The data highlights that private conservancies actively organize community training programs to raise awareness about the significance of wildlife conservation. Moreover, a shift in land use, explicitly transitioning from livestock rearing to cropland cultivation, emerges as a viable strategy for reducing conflict incidents in Laikipia County. The SES theory underscores the importance of understanding both social and ecological factors for coexistence. Social acceptability influences attitudes towards wildlife, impacting conflict dynamics and conservation efforts. Striking a balance between environmental diversity and social acceptability is crucial for effective conflict resolution. The study’s results reveal how conservancies’ impact on local lifestyles can influence attitudes and values, potentially leading to conflicts between humans and wildlife.

Lecturer – Student Conflicts in Universities: A Pathological Interrogation

The study examines the relationship that exists between lecturers and students a pathological interrogation. Findings have shown that conflict is normal, due to the rationality of human decision-making. Conflict most times indicated disjointedness in convergence, which is not in its self-harmful but part of a process to aid sound resolve and rational choices. The school environment, presents a formidable space for conflict to thrive due to the constant interface between the teacher and student, typically called classroom conflict. This study used the secondary sources of data collection, gaining insights from textbooks, journals, and online materials, effectively contextualizing conflict and conflict situation. The study proposed effective conflict resolution strategies, like collaborating, compromising, accommodating, understanding conflict and integration strategy.

The Global Peace Mandate of the United Nations Security Council, Conflict Management and the Israeli-Palestinian Question

The United Nations global conflict management strategy is based on certain fundamental assumptions that require serious re-examination in the twenty-first century. This study is focused on the United Nations Security Council, its global peace maintenance responsibility mandated by the United Nations Charter and the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The doctrinal approach was employed for this study. This is with aim to assess the long-standing violence between Israel and Palestine and a possible way of effective management and possible resolution, which is the sole responsibility of the United Nations Security Council. The study shed more light on the role of the Security Council, its efforts and its challenges that are hampering warring nations from settling their disputes. The study concluded that, although the United Nations Security Council has played vital roles in instituting global peace, which is the fundamental principle of macroeconomic stability, the reforms of the Council is at the top of the most pressing global political issues facing the international community. Therefore, among the recommendations of this study is that, the reformation of the Council to mirror the present globalized world political order is of utmost significance in order to provide room for effective regional or continental representation, just as a representative government is well suited for a federating country. This would enable effective representation via regional or continental powers creating a platform for feasibly effective conflict management and possible resolution of interstate conflicts.

A study of conflict resolution mechanisms and employment relations in multinational corporations in Africa: Empirical evidence from Nigeria and South Africa

Orientation: When it comes to employment relations, a strong and effective conflict resolution mechanism (CRM) is critical for achieving industrial tranquillity and collaboration among social partners.Research purpose: This study evaluated the usefulness of CRMs in employment relations at a large multinational company (MNC) in Nigeria and South Africa.Motivation for the study: Negotiating and dialoguing about employment relations must be an integral part of CRMs in order to alleviate disharmony in employment relations.Research method: This study used a survey methodology for non-experimental descriptive research. A mixed method of data gathering was used for this study, that is, quantitative and qualitative data collection. Approximately 400 questionnaires were sent to participants in the organisations, 200 each from Nigeria and South Africa. The survey also involved 20 respondents who were interviewed online. A total of 383 participants were included in this study.Main findings: Study results showed that the CRM worked better in South Africa than those in Nigeria. South Africa, based on a comparative review of the study, may have one of the most advanced systems for resolving industrial conflicts on the African continent.Practical implication: An effective approach to conflict resolution can help prevent negative outcomes of organisational dispute.Contribution: The study’s findings contribute to harmonious, non-violent, non-disruptive conflict resolution practices in the workplace.

A Review of Effective Communication and Its Impact on Interpersonal Relationships, Conflict Resolution, and Decision-Making

The purpose of this research paper is to review of effective communication and its impact on interpersonal relationships, conflict resolution, and decision-making in the workplace. In order to address the research topic, this research has been done by a qualitative method. Qualitative research included 10 semi-structured interviews with an average of 25 to 30 minutes. Participants were selected from diverse groups of people and the average age group was 18-45. The result of this research study included perceptions of effective decision-making, interpersonal relationships, and conflict resolution were linked with the potential application in both the practical and academic fields. In the practical field, the focus was set on making rational decisions, building interpersonal relationships, and resolving conflicts on time. Humans are inherently flawed and biased in information processing. An effective decision mostly depends on the quality of information and decision-making is one of the most important functions performed by a business leader. The higher the amount of accurate and relevant information a person has, the higher the quality of the decision would be.

SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF CORRUPT PRACTICES IN NIGERIA: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNSELLING AND VALUE REORIENTATION

Teamwork activities are becoming significant in higher education system. Especially professors, lecturers apply teamwork activities such as group assignments, group presentations group discussion, seminars to help students comprehend lectures easily and reveal students’ leadership skills such as project planning, reflection, problem solving, team building, decision making, goal setting, time management, project management resource allocation, effective communication networking, conflict resolution, diversity awareness, and selfconfidence. Universities, colleges prepare students to the business life after the graduation, In order to preparing student to their future career path, leadership skills play significant role. The more student leadership skills develop, the more students will adapt to real world situations. Teamwork activities help to improve students’ leadership skills. Students that participate group activities to collaborate their teammate’s purpose of complete the course, assignments, presentations will be having self-confident, effective communication, decision making, problem solving, conflict resolution skills so on. Students whose student leadership skills improved might have chance to be successful at their future occupations while they work as a part of team, collaborations in organizations. The purpose of this study is to provide a better comprehension of the concept of student leadership skills, teamwork activities at universities and colleges, link between teamwork activities and student leadership skills. We have done this by clarifying student leadership skills within the teamwork activities context identifying the idea of relationship based on project planning, reflection, problem solving, team building, decision making, goal setting, time management, project management resource allocation, effective communication networking, conflict resolution, diversity awareness, and self-confidence skills based on past studies in the literature.

Practices to support co-design processes: A case-study of co-designing a program for children with parents with a mental health problem in the Austrian region of Tyrol.

Forms of collaborative knowledge production, such as community-academic partnerships (CAP), have been increasingly used in health care. However, instructions on how to deliver such processes are lacking. We aim to identify practice ingredients for one element within a CAP, a 6-month co-design process, during which 26 community- and 13 research-partners collaboratively designed an intervention programme for children whose parent have a mental illness. Using 22 published facilitating and hindering factors for CAP as the analytical framework, eight community-partners reflected on the activities which took place during the co-design process. From a qualitative content analysis of the data, we distilled essential practices for each CAP factor. Ten community- and eight research-partners revised the results and co-authored this article. We identified 36 practices across the 22 CAP facilitating or hindering factors. Most practices address more than one factor. Many practices relate to workshop design, facilitation methods, and relationship building. Most practices were identified for facilitating 'trust among partners', 'shared visions, goals and/or missions', 'effective/frequent communication', and 'well-structured meetings'. Fewer practices were observed for 'effective conflict resolution', 'positive community impact' and for avoiding 'excessive funding pressure/control struggles' and 'high burden of activities'. Co-designing a programme for mental healthcare is a challenging process that requires skills in process management and communication. We provide practice steps for delivering co-design activities. However, practitioners may have to adapt them to different cultural contexts. Further research is needed to analyse whether co-writing with community-partners results in a better research output and benefits for participants.

Model Komunikasi dan Informasi Terpadu dalam Menanamkan Moderasi Beragama di Bali

The purpose of this research is to analyze how the communication and information model is implemented to integrate religion in Bali. By using the document analysis method, the results of the research show that Bali is recognized as multiculturalism with a religious belief. Both keep human society and peddle it alive through mutual interaction; promote mediation and through effective conflict resolution. Communication and religion facilitate Pakistan in the etiquette of human behavior through mutual sharing, experimentation, and intellectual stimulation. It should be noted that both cross-religious communication has been very abusive and that of modern human society. So that there is a need for encouragement from local religious leaders to communicate effectively and positively for the betterment of their community. On the other hand, the supervisor should not underestimate religion, but be very and sincere in his beliefs and enforce constitutional recognition in terms of empowerment and participation. This will be very important community integration. In this way, people and society will be able to maintain close contact among their own peacocks more effectively and productively.

The Role of Political and Cultural Aspects, in Shaping the Course of Conflict & Negotiation in Africa

The Bible says that, a man’s wisdom gives him patience, it’s to his glory to overlook an offence (Proverbs: 19:11). Conflicts are a common phenomenon in every society and knowing the best negotiation skills to employ is an advantage to everyone. The African continent has not been spared on issues of conflicts especially those that are politically instigated. Poor levels of education and issues of greed could be some of the contributions to the politically originated conflict issues. This paper seeks to critically analyze the role of cultural aspects in shaping the course of conflict & Negotiation in Africa. This paper has also looked at various approaches to conflict resolution through mediation and negotiation. The issues affecting effective conflict resolution have also been addressed. The conclusion brings about various ways to manage conflicts and to handle negotiations. Keywords: Conflict, political, culture, negotiation.

TRADITIONAL RULERS AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION: A CASE STUDY OF ETINAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, AKWA- IBOM STATE, NIGERIA

Traditional Institutions in Africa was once held in high esteem by African societies. The Institution based on the pedigree of the traditional leaders was known for the preservation of culture(ral) values maintenance of law and order and effective conflict resolution in their respective domain(s). They are trusted to give sound judgment and justice that is not legally or judicially bias. The advent the introduction of the 1976 Local Government Reform crippled the well-defined and hallowed system of Tradition in Nigeria which was using alternative dispute resolution to ensure that peace reigned in their domains.This is based on the perception that Alternative Dispute Resolution through mediation is a viable instrument for dispute settlement by the Traditional Rulers in Etinan. Therefore, this study seeks to investigate Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques used by Traditional Rulers in Etinan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria. The population of the study are men and women from the Local Government Area while the sample size(50 ) was purposively selected for the study. A self-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Interviews were conducted with key informants.Journals, archival materials, and internet articles were used to affirm certain facts that traditional rulers uses Alternative and negotiation techniques for dispute resolution through mediation process. The study reveals that traditional rulers employs the use of Reconciliation, Mediation,and Litigation to resolve all forms of conflict. However , Litigation is used when conflicting parties are not satisfied with the outcome of the mediation process. It was also revealed that the use of Personal Data of Spouses and Close Kinship is another form used to resolve conflict in Etinan. The paper recommends that asides traditional rulers, mediators and the society at large should adapt the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution dispute settlement at all levels and devoid of court proceedings