Explores the competing demands imposed by the ethics of care and justice in an urban high school. Using the case of a multiethnic urban high school grappling with attendance and truancy problems, describes school community members's varying perspectives regarding their school as care-giving and justice-seeking. In actual practice, school members…

Responses from 36 of 121 volunteers who participated in a collaborative effort to manage a water dispute in the Walker River Basin resulted in suggestions to improve communication, networking, relationship building, and other collaborative skills and helped to establish guidelines for future efforts. (Contains 17 references and the questionnaire.)…

Analysis of data from a 1998 telecommunications industry survey indicates that institutional pressures and human resource strategies contribute to adoption of nonunion dispute resolution procedures. Employment rights litigation and court deferral to nonunion arbitration led to an increase in mandatory arbitration procedures. Threat of unionization…

Notes that when incidents of bigotry occur, whether in the classroom or in other situations involving interaction with or among students, teachers should already be well informed about steps they and other parties may take. Presents ideas on how to deal with incidents of bigotry in the classroom. Addresses specific problems such as problems among…

The data presented in this article report significant predictors and relationships among high levels of marital distress, lack of couple time together, and problems associated with lack of communication. The results are explored in terms of counseling implications. (Contains 25 references and 2 tables.) (Author)

Suggests that one's worldview determines perception of conflict and that internal locus of control would be more meaningful in terms of conflict resolution. Sees personal boundaries as context for conflicts and as individual constructions of cultural expectations. Develops transformative model in which individual transformations, especially in…

Discusses the dialectic between creative dramatics and conflict resolution and its exploration by the Conflict Resolution Project (CRP). Outlines the CRP's perspectives and general approach as a prelude to a more indepth review about how creative dramatics are used by the CRP. (Author/NB)

Responds to an article criticizing the author's inclusion of unresolved argument as a feature characterizing interactional argumentation (published in an earlier issue). Traces the disagreement to different uses of "paradigm case" and "prototypical case," and attempts to clarify these differences. (MM)

Compared 10 compulsive eaters and their spouses with 10 compulsive drinkers and their spouses. Interview data revealed pattern suggesting that couples were often unable to process feelings and resolve conflicts. For subject, couple relationship seemed to affect and perpetuate compulsive behavior. Results point to need to redefine construct of…

Finds that, in situations involving conflict inherent in professional truth-telling/deception dilemmas, nurses' choices of a conflict management strategy are importantly influenced by characteristics of professional role, and organizational situation. (SR)

Accountants have urged "harmonization" of standards between the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board, recommending similar reporting of like transactions. However, varying display of similar accounting events does not necessarily indicate disharmony. The potential for problems because of…

Conflict resolution theory suggests that the constructive, prosocial, integrative style is best for resolving interpersonal conflict, because it not only solves the problem but also enriches the interpersonal relationship. Effective interpersonal communication is the critical element of this integrative process. Counselors could prepare people to…

When faced with conflict, people respond in one of three styles: dominating, appeasing, or cooperating. Teaching students to recognize styles and choose appropriate responses can help them deal with conflict in the workplace. (SK)

Conflict between people can arise over breakdowns in communication, work policies and practices, adversarial management, and personality conflict. A conflict-resolution plan involves defining the problem, collecting the facts and opinions, considering all solutions proposed, implementing the solutions, and evaluating the situation. (MLF)

Presents preliminary psychometric data for two inventories that assess conflict in couples. Discusses factor structure of items, internal consistency and one-year stability of composite scores, relationship between couple members' composite scores, and link between composite scores and relationship satisfaction, change in satisfaction, and…