What Creates Conflict?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
• Social Dilemmas<\/li>\n
• Competition * Perceived Injustice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  Creating Conflict: Social Dilemmas<\/strong><\/p>\n

  \n
  • Social Dilemmas<\/li>\n
  • Social trap<\/li>\n
  • Situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing its self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior<\/li>\n
  • Examples<\/li>\n
  • The \u201cPrisoners Dilemma\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Resolving social dilemmas<\/li>\n
  • Regulation<\/li>\n
  • Safeguard the common good<\/li>\n
  • Make the group small<\/li>\n
  • Communication<\/li>\n
  • Change the payoffs * Appeal to altruistic norms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Creating Conflict: Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
    • Competition<\/li>\n
    • Realistic group conflict<\/li>\n
    • Win-lose competition<\/li>\n
    • Negative images of the other groups<\/li>\n
    • Strong in-group cohesiveness<\/li>\n
    • Pride<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Creating Conflict: Perceived Injustice<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
      • Perceived Injustice<\/li>\n
      • People perceive justice as equity<\/li>\n
      • Distribution of rewards in proportion to individuals\u2019 contributions<\/li>\n
      • If one contributes more and benefits less, he will feel exploited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        How Can Peace Be Achieved? <\/strong><\/p>\n

        \n
        • Contact<\/li>\n
        • Cooperation * Communication<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Creating Peace: Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
          • Predicts decreased prejudice<\/li>\n
          • Friendship<\/li>\n
          • Those who form friendships with out-group members develop more positive attitudes toward the out-group<\/li>\n
          • Equal-status contact<\/li>\n
          • Contact on an equal basis<\/li>\n
          • To reduce prejudice, interracial contact should be between persons equal in status<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Creating Peace: Cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n

            \n
            • Common external threats build cohesiveness<\/li>\n
            • Subordinate goals foster cooperation<\/li>\n
            • Shared goal that necessitates cooperative effort<\/li>\n
            • Group and subordinate identities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Creating Peace: Communication<\/strong><\/p>\n

              \n
              • Bargaining<\/li>\n
              • Seeking an agreement to a conflict through direct negotiation between parties * Tough bargaining may lower the other party\u2019s expectations, but can sometimes backfire<\/li>\n
              • Mediation<\/li>\n
              • Attempt by a neutral third party to resolve a conflict by facilitating communication and offering suggestions<\/li>\n
              • Integrative agreements<\/li>\n
              • Win-win agreements that reconcile both parties\u2019 interests to their mutual benefit<\/li>\n
              • Arbitration<\/li>\n
              • Resolution of a conflict by a neutral third party who studies both sides and imposes a settlement<\/li>\n
              • Final-offer arbitration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Motivates each party to make a reasonable proposal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                What Creates Conflict? Social Dilemmas Competition * Perceived Injustice Creating Conflict: Social Dilemmas Social Dilemmas Social trap Situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing its self-interest,… Continue Reading Conflict<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}