Responses from students after reading a story about a five-person group and their conflict behaviors indicate that the person in the story who engaged in compromise was rated as most successful both in accomplished goals and in establishing interpersonal relationships. States that relationship between attraction and conflict behaviors was found to…

Discussion of the need for educating students of all ages for peace focuses on principles of the Peace Studies doctoral program at Pace University (New York). Program components include: (1) inner peace spiritual awareness; (2) micro-peace studies the immediate environment; (3) macro-peace studies national and international; and (4) planetary…

Investigates novice client performance using the Gestalt two-chair technique. Ten "softening" and eight "non-softening" counseling dyads were compared on performance task completion and sequentially to investigate Greenberg's Refined Client Performance model of intrapsychic conflict resolution. (Author/MKA)

Argues that schools can and should play a critical role in stemming youth violence and describes the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, a program that schools can use in creating safe, caring communities of learning for children. It shows how the ability to manage emotions, resolve conflict, and interrupt biases are skills that can be taught…

Adversarial approaches perpetuate disciplinary problems without solving them. Conferencing is a group conflict-resolution process that focuses on repairing relationships when offenders admit wrongdoing. When kids take responsibility for their bad behavior, they realize they can control their actions-the foundation for developing self-efficacy and…

Highlights four key ideas in conflict literacy that English-as-a-Second-Language teachers should understand: the unavoidability of conflict, causes of conflict, responses to conflict, and successful outcomes of conflict. Provides four tasks that teachers can use to educate their students about conflict resolution (Author/VWL)

Examined 5- to 7- and 9- to 12-year-olds' responses to videotaped interadult conflicts in which the content and emotion of endings were either consistent or discrepant. Both younger and older children responded to content and emotion cues with their perceptions of adults' anger and conflict resolution, with positive emotion and nonconflictual…

A just and caring education aims to cultivate both character and intelligence. Peacemakers (like Aristotle, Saint Augustine, and Gandhi) combine an unusually developed sense of compassion and humility with a firm, clear perception of right conduct on which they act with uncommon courage. They fight fire with water whenever possible, but are…

Presents an ethical decision-making model that can help presidents and boards maneuver through difficult situations. Describes six steps: identifying the ethical dilemma; gathering facts, self-monitoring, and consulting; asking important questions; creating alternate courses of action; evaluating alternatives; and implementing a course of action…

Studied the degree to which attachment orientations were related to negative mood regulation expectancies and conflict management strategies with best friends and romantic partners in a sample of 140 female college students. Discusses results in relation to previous research on attachment theory and implications for interventions. (SLD)

Presents an outcome investigation of the role of anger management in parent-adolescent conflict. Eighteen parent-adolescent dyads were randomly assigned either to a conflict resolution group treatment or combined conflict management and conflict resolution group treatment. Findings suggest that the combination treatment group parents and teens…

Presents guidelines for resolving conflicts between educators and parents. Participants should seek different perspectives, not "truths," consider the common ground, define an effective problem-solving procedure, adopt ground rules for discussion, address issues, identify interests and positive intentions, develop options, select arrangements, and…

Notes the "Children as Peacemakers" study, a video ethnography of peacemaking efforts in an elementary school. Includes excerpts from interviews and discussions with a grade 2 child, her mother, and her teacher concerning their experiences with "Peacemakers" approach. Notes that the "Peacemakers" approach offers…

Thirty-one couples participated in the Marriage Checkup (MC), a pilot, motivational interviewing intervention for at-risk couples. Marital satisfaction improved significantly from pre- to post-checkup and remained improved at one month follow up. Although not addressing the efficacy of MC, this study supports its validity as an indicative…

Proposes an expressive-cognitive approach to the resolution of unfinished business as an eclectic adaptation of the experiential model for resolving unfinished business. Suggests that this approach may be used as a complementary or alternative choice to the empty-chair intervention, particularly for clients who have difficulty engaging in or…