There are no simple answers to the tricky business of managing conflict within organizations. Almost every conflict is a unique case with its own issues, participants, dynamics, and consequences. Still, it appears possible to differentiate between organizations that handle conflict productively and those that do not. Successful organizations view…

The final report of the Commission on Proposals for the National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution is presented. The Commission recommends that the federal government establish the United States Academy of Peace. After discussing the timeliness of U.S. leadership in international peace education and research through the proposed federal…

Recent attempts to predict marital success or failure have explored the explanations couples offer for interpersonal events. To investigate whether positive and negative affect would lead to different causal attributions in a conflict-resolution conversation, 20 married couples were asked to observe a conflict-resolution and a control conversation…

Educating for peace at the primary level is more critical now than ever before, as our students struggle to choose and emulate the models of peace education that stand before them. Continuously facing a sensationalized picture of war, students must not learn from the media generated models that stand before them in a time of war. Instead,…

This study, using a variant of exchange theory, tested the basic hypothesis that job satisfaction is a function of administrator-personnel conflict. Findings revealed only moderate support for the hypothesis. (Author/WM)

Article considered the concept of interpersonal conflict involving educational personnel and its importance to the administration of educational institutions. (Author/RK)

Comment includes implications for communication theory. (CH)

This publication reports the proceedings of the National Accountability Conference held by the National Education Association in March 1977 on the theme: "Schooling: Expectations in Conflict." Section 1 of the report draws primarily on the contributions of the major speakers and seminar leaders to discuss the nature of conflict, the implications…

This report outlines the initial phase in the development of a set of intervention techniques, and their accompanying assessment procedures. Training procedures for skills in negotiating behavior changes were designed to alleviate marital conflicts in 10 moderately distressed couples. (Author)

First in a series of articles about American Indian treaties, this article briefly discusses the historical background of treaties and their importance today. (NQ)

Examines the plight of the female religious in the church today and provides some insights into counseling these women. (HMV)

A look at the case method of studying higher education ministries begins with an essay on the use of the method and is followed by three case studies. In the introductory essay, Robert A. Evans discusses the advantages of the method: that it represents slices of real life and not imagined illustrations of issues, that it can focus on specific…

As a means of counteracting current widespread acceptance of war and war preparations with a sense of resignation and hopelessness/powerlessness, this monograph proposes a nonviolent strategy by which citizens can discourage or thwart either internal usurpation or external invasion/occupation. Designated Civilian Based Defense (CBD), this system…