Including Conflict Resolution Research Articles

Examining the Influence of Family Dynamics and Parenting Styles on Adolescent Anxiety: A Cross-Sectional Study

This cross-sectional study investigates the impact of family dynamics on adolescent anxiety in a diverse sample aged 12-18. Using established psychological scales, including the Beck Anxiety Inventory and Family Environment Scale, the research identifies significant correlations between family cohesion, conflict, and parenting styles with adolescent anxiety. Results highlight the pivotal role of family conflict as a predictor of anxiety levels, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions. Authoritative parenting styles are associated with lower anxiety, endorsing the importance of supportive and structured parenting. Implications for intervention include conflict resolution programs, parenting skills training, and culturally tailored approaches. This study contributes actionable insights for practitioners, educators, and policymakers to enhance the holistic well-being of adolescents.

CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS: WHAT SKILLS DO HEALTH CARE EMPLOYERS VALUE IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS?

Abstract Community colleges (CCs) play an important role in educating healthcare workers engaged in caring for aging populations with greater healthcare and long-term care needs. Healthcare employers and nursing home leaders are obligated to ensure that care provided by their employees meets quality standards, is patient-centered and free from psychological and physical harm. To increase the employability of CC students and understand the skills valued by employers in improving care for older adults, we explored the role literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills play in CC student success in the workplace. Using a qualitative descriptive design, we conducted semi-structured interviews with CC administrators (n=9), faculty (n=6), and employers (n=10) who hire healthcare workers (certified nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and registered nurses (RNs)) educated at CCs. Our findings show that communication skills are highly valued, especially the ability to communicate on the level of the nursing home resident or hospital patient, along with their family members. Numeracy skills, such as measuring medication dosages, critical thinking skills, and problem-solving skills, including conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, and compassionate care are valued by employers. Employers reported that LPNs and RNs have limited leadership and supervisory skills and there is a need to use innovative mechanisms (e.g., case studies, online courses) to improve those skills. Serving on CC advisory councils, clinical rotations and employers’ input into program development were reported as beneficial strategies. Findings from this project will inform both CC administrators and employers regarding skills that are valued in caring for older adults.

PEACE EDUCATION: A PATHWAY TO THE CULTURE OF PEACE

The article discusses the importance of peace education as a means to promote a culture of peace. Peace education aims to equip individuals with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to prevent and resolve conflicts and promote peaceful coexistence. The article traces the history of peace education, from the early 20th century to the present, and explores the broad scope of peace education, which encompasses formal and informal learning environments and a wide range of issues, including conflict resolution, human rights, environmental sustainability, and social justice. The article also highlights the role of education in promoting peace and resolving conflicts by promoting critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills, as well as tolerance, respect for diversity, and mutual understanding and cooperation.

PEACE EDUCATION: A PATHWAY TO THE CULTURE OF PEACE

The article discusses the importance of peace education as a means to promote a culture of peace. Peace education aims to equip individuals with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to prevent and resolve conflicts and promote peaceful coexistence. The article traces the history of peace education, from the early 20th century to the present, and explores the broad scope of peace education, which encompasses formal and informal learning environments and a wide range of issues, including conflict resolution, human rights, environmental sustainability, and social justice. The article also highlights the role of education in promoting peace and resolving conflicts by promoting critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills, as well as tolerance, respect for diversity, and mutual understanding and cooperation.

Hierarchical Coordination of Transmission and Distribution System Operations in European Balancing Markets

We propose a hierarchical scheme for the coordination of transmission and distribution system operations, which is inspired by nested decomposition and tailored for integration in upcoming European balancing markets. We compare our proposal to a number of recent European research projects and pilots. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposal in resolving a number of transmission-distribution coordination dilemmas, including conflict resolution between network operators, self-healing, sharing charges in mutually beneficial actions, and the recursive integration of distributed resources in pan-European balancing markets. We implement a proof-of-concept market clearing platform that can match transmission and distribution system market orders, cope with non-convexities in market offers and power flow constraints, scale to systems of realistic size, and respect the decentralization of communications and information sharing which is required in European electricity markets. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our platform on large-scale instances of the Italian and Danish power systems based on data sourced from the EU Horizon 2020 SmartNet project. We demonstrate the superiority of our approach to alternative coordination schemes in terms of economic efficiency, alignment of incentives and system security.

COVID-19, Creative Conflict, and the Seven Cs: A Social Diagnosis of Digital Communication Platforms for Gen Z/Gen T

Adding to the work on creative conflict management that has been the object of organizational and management studies for the last several decades, we focus on a subset of Gen Z or “Generation Tech” (Gen T). This generation will be the first to instinctively and reflexively bring a “technology first” approach to their work practices including conflict resolution. Scholars of organizational communication identify the management of creative conflict as a prosocial process with important ramifications for organizational well-being. Taking a social diagnosis approach, we contribute to this growing literature by bringing it into dialogue with digital sociology and Gen Ters who are well-suited to use digital communication platforms (DCPs) like Teams and Slack to engage in creative conflict that benefits the well-being of organizations and their members. Our analysis shows that DCPs can encourage prosocial behaviors, when they (1) include nonsynchronous functionality, (2) associate contributions with members’ real names, and (3) make all interactions visible to all team members. Our study reveals that when organizational DCPs are governed by these parameters, they can foster the Seven Cs of Creative Conflict that we identify as clarity, candor, contribution, cooperation, challenge, courage, and collegiality. The Seven Cs foster a growth mindset feedback loop in which members learn to self-reflectively apply a social diagnostic approach to their own digitally mediated well-being, thereby potentially improving organizational communication. Therefore, the Seven Cs form a core of communication competencies that will be increasingly important for organizational success as Gen Ters continue to mature and become colleagues in a variety of organizations.

Conflict resolution in a pediatric inpatient unit: a best practice implementation project.

The aim of this project was to promote evidence-based practices regarding conflict resolution in the hospital setting on a pediatric inpatient unit. Conflict is an inevitable reality in healthcare organizations. Evidence suggests that to facilitate constructive conflict resolution among staff, organizational-level education, as well as formal policies and procedures are both necessary. A baseline audit on conflict resolution utilizing the JBI Practical Application of Clinical Evidence System program was undertaken and involved 34 nurses and two nursing assistants. The implementation project used a three-phase approach, with audits and feedback for the evaluation of compliance with best practices. Following baseline audits, an intervention, including conflict resolution education, was implemented, and recommendations to update the current policy and procedure were communicated to unit leadership. Then a postimplementation audit was undertaken. Postimplementation audits revealed improvements in compliance across all seven audit criteria. The greatest improvement was for audit criterion 4, having a structured formal process for remediation if conflict occurs, and criterion 7, having a follow-up of agreed solutions occur, which garnered 75 and 83% improvements, respectively. For all seven audit criteria, compliance improved from 24% at baseline to 71% after the implementation of an educational module regarding conflict resolution strategies, tools, and best practices and a recommendation to update the existing policy to include the use of a conflict resolution documentation tool. Recommendations for the next steps include making educational materials and visual reminders about conflict resolution strategies readily available and easily accessible to staff.

Enhancing Community Conflict Resolution Skills: A Training Needs Assesment for Lupon Tagapamayapa

This research aimed to determine the training needs of the Lupon Tagapamayapa, operating under the Barangay Justice System, as perceived by constituents from selected barangays in the City of Ozamiz. Specifically, the study focused on the areas of conciliation efforts to reconcile parties, enforcement of rules, and proper application of legal procedures. A total of 35 constituents participated in the study, and data were gathered using an adapted survey questionnaire. The findings of the study revealed the training needs of the Lupon Tagapamayapa in handling community disputes. By fulfilling this objective, the study aimed to contribute to the development of training programs that would benefit the Lupon Tagapamayapa in four barangays of Ozamiz City through community extension programs. The results indicated that the Lupon Tagapamayapa in the four barangays of Ozamiz City scored very low in the areas of conciliation efforts to reconcile parties, enforcement of rules, and proper application of legal procedures. Furthermore, age, gender, and civil status were found to have a significant impact on the conciliation process to reconcile parties. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended specific areas of training that could be beneficial for the Lupon Tagapamayapa. These areas include conflict resolution, communication skills, legal knowledge, cultural sensitivity, and problem-solving skills. It is important for them to receive training in various techniques and strategies for resolving disputes and maintaining peaceful community relations. By addressing these training needs, the Lupon Tagapamayapa can enhance their effectiveness in carrying out their roles within the Barangay Justice System. It is hoped that this research will serve as a foundation for the development and implementation of targeted training programs, ultimately leading to improved conflict resolution and strengthened community relations in the barangays of Ozamiz City.

A Critical Analysis of India's Current Mediation Mechanism

In any kind of relationship, whether it be a personal one or a professional one, there is certain to be at least one argument at some point or another. Disagreements may be deconstructed into three distinct parts: the individuals involved, the approach that was used, and the core matter that is being discussed. Disagreements may be settled in a variety of ways, some of which include conflict resolution methods such as litigation or arbitration. These are only two of the many options available. We polled 500 mediators, all of whom were based in either the United States or India, and the results were split evenly between the two countries. The ages of the respondents ranged from as young as 21 to as old as 81, and many of them had more than 40 years of experience working in the field of Mediation. Some of the respondents were also female. At this point in time, it would seem that India does not have a legal precedent that is suitable for the Mediation procedure.

Peacemaking: Conflict resolution using Cool Clues for elementary students

It is recommended that violence prevention interventions start early for students and include conflict resolution education and social-emotional skills training components. Although school-based programs have shown some promise, community-based or out-of-school time programs require more study. A social-emotional learning-focused conflict resolution intervention using role-play and puppetry was implemented in a small afterschool program as an exploratory study. Student participants’ conflict resolution knowledge and after-school teacher observation of their pro-social skill behaviors were assessed pre- and post- program. Although many participants scored high in conflict resolution knowledge pre-program, they appeared to gain some additional knowledge, specifically on disagreements between friends and empathy for other’s feelings. After-school teachers, however, observed no significant overall differences in their pro-social behaviors pre- and post- program. All in all, as an exploratory study, the slight positive changes in knowledge provide data to suggest continuing the curriculum with more emphasis on the weakest topics as well as more role-play or puppet play about friendship and sharing behaviors.

Early Life Adversity and Clinical Intimate Partner Violence in Adulthood: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Conflict in Adolescence.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with adverse outcomes for both victims and perpetrators, though there is significant heterogeneity in manifestations of relationship violence. A growing amount of research has focused on elucidating predictors of clinical IPV-defined as severe violence involving institutional or medical intervention due to actual or potential injury-so as to better understand potential prevention and intervention targets. Early life adversity (ELA) is associated with IPV in adulthood, yet this literature focuses on discrete, retrospectively reported adversities (e.g., physical abuse and neglect) and has yet to consider clinical IPV as an outcome. Little is known about if and how broadly adverse early environments may confer risk for this specific form of relationship violence. We investigated associations between exposure to ELA prior to age five and clinical IPV victimization and perpetration by age 20 in a longitudinal, community-based sample of men and women in Australia (N = 588). Early life adversity was prospectively indexed by maternal reports of financial hardship, child chronic illness, maternal stressful life events, maternal depressive symptoms, parental discord, and parental separation. Youth interpersonal conflict life events at age 15-an interviewer-rated assessment of episodic stressors involving conflict across relationships in mid-adolescence-was tested as a potential mediator for both victims and perpetrators. Among women, ELA predicted IPV victimization and perpetration, and interpersonal conflict life events partially mediated the link between ELA and victimization, but not perpetration. Neither ELA nor interpersonal conflict life events predicted victimization or perpetration among men. Women exposed to ELA are at-risk for conflictual interpersonal relationships later in life, including violent intimate relationships, and deficits in conflict resolution skills may be one mechanism through which ELA leads to IPV victimization among this subgroup. Violence prevention and intervention efforts should target interpersonal skills, including conflict resolution, among women and girls exposed to adverse early environments.

Forming, storming, norming, and performing: Using a semester-long problem-based learning project to apply small-group communication principles

In a small-group communication course, students participate in a semester-long project to observe an organization while applying many group communication principles, including conflict resolution, group dynamics, teambuilding, leadership, and diversity. In groups of five, the students select any organization, agency, or department on campus or in the community to observe. After observing the organization, the students explore the greatest challenges facing the organization and determine a problem they will examine and analyze. Once they have defined the parameters of the problem, the students will select a potential solution and project that can have an immediate short-term impact. In their final paper and presentation, the students elaborate on long-term solutions and ways to improve the organization's process, policies, procedures, and plans. The project is very effective in teaching small-group communication principles and group development because of the immersive impact on the learning process. Course Small-group communication. Learning Objectives Students will be able to: apply relevant theories, principles, and terms to evaluate and analyze the process of group meetings; express an understanding of the necessary commitments and ethical responsibilities essential to successful collaboration in task-oriented small groups; demonstrate the ability to fulfill the necessary leadership and participant responsibilities appropriate to group settings; and implement problem-solving tools to create an initiative to improve organizational dynamics.

Design and change in transboundary freshwater agreements

This paper presents a systematic assessment of transboundary water treaties and their institutional evolution over time. While the majority of treaties tend to remain unchanged, others are renegotiated over time, either gradually by treaty amendment or abruptly by treaty replacement. This study examines the sources of treaty amendment, treaty replacement, and renegotiation. Treaty design features, such as conflict resolution mechanisms and duration mechanisms, make up the set of independent variables. Effects are also measured for a set of control variables including the geographical configuration of a basin, the number of signatories, a history of interstate militarized disputes, water variability, the basin’s climate zone, and past renegotiations. Conflict resolution appears as a significant design feature for determining treaty stability, aided by asymmetrical basin configurations and bilateralism. The absence of conflict resolution is the main trigger for gradual change. The presence of a duration clause and a history of interstate militarized disputes are found to trigger abrupt change. Renegotiations become more likely after the first round of renegotiation, suggesting a temporal effect of path dependence on treaty evolution. This study adds to the work of scholars mapping transboundary basins at risk and provides further arguments to negotiate better and more specific treaties from the start, which include conflict resolution features that enable dialogue and rule modification while avoiding the need for formal treaty renegotiation.

The Responsibility to Protect norm cluster and the challenge of atrocity prevention: an analysis of the European Union’s strategy in Myanmar

This article investigates the complex relationship between atrocity prevention and other related – yet distinct – norms of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm cluster. It analyses how this cluster operates to help states, and other actors, properly discharge their responsibility. Central to the analysis is the realisation that abstractly aligned norms can clash in practice. Based on an extensive analysis of the 67 European Union (EU) documents and statements referring to R2P, and drawing on elite interviews with EU diplomats, we find that atrocity prevention has been ‘grafted’ onto the EU’s other normative commitments – including conflict resolution and democracy promotion – without sufficient acknowledgement of the cluster’s complexity and the need to prioritise atrocity prevention vis-à-vis these other linked norms. We ask whether this framing not only filtered but also diluted the normative power of atrocity prevention, leading to policies that manifestly failed to prevent the genocide that occurred in Myanmar from 2017. We find that the grafting of atrocity prevention onto related yet distinct norms contributed to an underestimation of the threat of genocide and a misplaced faith in the ability of democratic transition to prevent atrocity. However, we also find that factors unrelated to the normative framing of R2P influenced the EU’s willingness and ability to respond to atrocity crimes that occurred in the lead up to the genocide that began in 2017. The article contributes to our understanding of the as yet unstated normative implication of clustering norms and the EU’s implementation of R2P.

Comparing Business School Faculty Classification for Perceptions of Student Cheating

Faculty continue to address academic dishonesty in their classes. In this follow-up to an earlier study on general perceived faculty student cheating, using a sample of business school faculty, we compared three levels of faculty classification: full-time non-tenure track (NTT, n = 86), full-time tenured/tenure-track (TT, n = 66), and part-time adjuncts (A, n = 71). Results showed that NTTs perceived higher levels for three different types of student cheating, i.e., paper-based, forbidden teamwork, and hiring someone to take an exam. In addition, NTTs were more likely to report a student for cheating. NTTs reported a higher course load and average class size, and average class size was positively related to all five types of cheating measured. Given the predicted increase in NTTs across all disciplines, making sure that all faculty, (but especially NTTs), have the resources needed to deter student cheating is important. All faculty have an obligation to hold students accountable for their behavior. Individual integrity is paramount; and it is what employers expect. Regardless of the chosen field or discipline, an employer’s expectations, in terms of character, is to hire individuals who possess a level of honesty that is above reproach. Addressing cheating is an obligation that all faculty need to address purposefully. Providing resources to help faculty address cheating is critical. Resources might include conflict resolution training to provide instructors with the necessary guidance so that they can better handle these difficult situations. This is important not only for the student while in school, but also for a university/college’s reputation.

The green and the cool: Hybridity, relationality and ethnographic-biographical responses to intervention

ABSTRACT Policy debates on conflict research, which are mostly directly used to develop practices of soft intervention (including conflict resolution, peacebuilding and statebuilding), emanate from common epistemic and ontological frameworks. Most have been produced and perpetuated by key institutions in the global North through their encounter with historical direct and structural violence, both North and South. Power has followed Enlightenment knowledge, along with its various biases and exclusions. Its progressive normative, political, economic and social assumptions about a ‘good society’ and an ‘international community’ have been fed through social science into the building of international institutions, IFIs and the donor system. Using a method called ethnographic biography (in which biography is broadly defined to include the bibliography produced by the subject, as well as interviews and discussions), this article illustrates how peace thinking is mutually constructed as both positive and hybrid, confirming earlier critical work. However, the research methods deployed to engage with the contextual production of knowledge by local scholar-practitioners are sorely underdeveloped. This is illustrated through an analysis of the work of ‘local’ conflict scholars on their own peacebuilding and statebuilding processes in Cyprus, Kosovo and Timor Leste.

Communication Preferences of Business-to-Business Buyers for Receiving Initial Sales Messages: A Comparison of Media Channel Selection Theories

Recent research on media channel selection theories has called for studies exploring communication in interorganizational business relationships and for specific work functions. The present study addresses this need through an exploration of buyer-seller communication practices in business-to-business contexts. Based on a survey of buyers, it offers a comparison of e-mail and voice mail with an emphasis on preferences for initial or cold call sales messages. The study design compares the explanatory power of three prominent theories of media channel selection: media richness theory, channel expansion theory, and media synchronicity theory. Results indicate that e-mail and voice mail/phone are the most frequently used media channels for business-to-business sales communication. Buyers preferred to receive initial messages from new salespeople by e-mail. Voice mail and phone are preferred for specific processes in established relationships, including conflict resolution, negotiations, and relationship building. Of the three theoretical models, media synchronicity theory offered the most thorough and robust account of buyer media preferences and channel selection rationales. Congruent with the expectations of media synchronicity theory, buyers preferred e-mail for communication processes characterized by the conveyance of information due to its capabilities for information processing. In particular, buyers preferred the higher parallelism of e-mail—including its capabilities for engaging in multiple conversations simultaneously—as it supported multitasking working styles.

Contemporary 21st century therapeutic jurisprudence in civil cases: Building bridges between law and psychology

Contemporary 21st century therapeutic jurisprudence in civil cases: Building bridges between law and psychology

Conflict resolution effectiveness on the implementation efficiency and achievement of business objectives in IT programs: A study of IT vendors

ContextThe information technology (IT) field presents a unique context for the management of multiple projects because of the variety of stakeholders involved, the complexity of interdependencies among projects, and the frequent use of external vendors. In practice, IT vendors typically employ advanced project governance techniques such as program management to work effectively with the numbers and variety of clients while still pursuing the benefits of a single oversight. These structural features lend themselves to conflict across teams with individual requirements. However, little research exists on program management, much less in the IT context, that represents conflict across IT project teams. ObjectiveIn this study, the effectiveness of conflict resolution on the implementation efficiency and fulfillment of business objectives is studied through the lens of constructive controversy theories. A number of hypotheses are derived by tailoring the constructive conflict resolution concepts to IT context and making a comprehensive literature review to identify the mediator and dependent variables. A model is developed to consider the management of conflict across multiple projects combined into a single program. MethodA quantitative questionnaire related to the program environment was developed for five variables to include conflict resolution, cognition-based trust, interpersonal cooperation, business objectives and implementation efficiency. The hypotheses were tested by performing a survey study, where a number of well-established measures in the literature were used. 92 paired responses from program teams in 38 organizations located in India were obtained and represent a variety of individual characteristics, and program sizes. ResultsThis study identified the composite role of constructive conflict resolution and cognition-based trust in improving interpersonal cooperation. The impacts of constructive conflict resolution on business objectives were not fully mediated by cognition-based trust and interpersonal cooperation, although implementation efficiency is fully mediated. ConclusionThe management of conflict promotes trust and interpersonal cooperation necessary to improve the efficient completion of the program and benefits to the organization.

Relations between Regional Local Government and Basic Local Government - Focused on the problems of local administrative system and administrative system reorganization including conflict resolution of integrated Changwon city -

Relations between Regional Local Government and Basic Local Government - Focused on the problems of local administrative system and administrative system reorganization including conflict resolution of integrated Changwon city -