Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

Introduction: Roy Lewicki, an expert on framing and negotiation observes that even conflict resolution specialists make framing errors.

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Errors in Framing Conflict
Roy Lewicki
Professor of Management and Human Resources at Ohio State University

Interviewed by
Julian Portilla
2003

We are trying to figure out whether we really can separate conflict resolution values from other political or sociopolitical values and to understand the other perspective better. There is simply not anywhere near enough dialogue with those groups that we pretend to not understand. We think that those other groups are all screwed up because they apparently don't believe in conflict resolution or injustice, as we would define it.

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? -- Barbara Deming

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