This book suggests new approaches to the role played by communication in social conflict situations. In "A Transactional Paradigm of Verbalized Social Conflict," C. David Mortensen calls for a transactional approach to the study of communication and conflict. Fred Jandt's "Communication and the Simulation of Social Conflict" stresses the advantages of simulating social conflict. In "Communication in Game Theoretic Models of Conflict," Thomas Steinfatt and Gerald Miller summarize and extend a body of research conducted in the tradition of tightly controlled laboratory studies. Phillip Tompkins, Jeanne Fisher, Dominic Infante, and Elaine Tompkins employ field research techniques to investigate attitudes toward "Conflict and Communication Within the University." John Bowers uses the case study to illustrate "Communication Strategies in Conflicts Between Institutions and Their Clients." A conceptual analysis of the relationship between persuasion and the use of threats and inducements is offered in "The Carrot and Stick as Handmaidens of Persuasion in Conflict Situations" by Herbert W. Simons. There is an extensive bibliography at the end of the book. (RB)