study of conflict in resource perception

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of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, Conflict, perception and power. ENOUGH Project. Author: Natural resource conflicts take many forms, and they are particularly complicated by scope and scale.

Natural resource conflicts often involve multifaceted issues, a wide array of stakeholders, multiple political jurisdictions and social contexts, and complex scientific questions.

The division into phases, and the cyclical perception of conflict, has also become the starting point for research on conflict prevention, management and resolution.

In principle, conflict prevention, conflict management and conflict resolution are regarded as applicable in different phases of a Size: KB. conflict and understand that conflicts stem from ineradicable human qualities and are related to situations of interdependence, scarce resources and perceptions of incompatibility,8 they might readily accept conflict and recognize its values — provided, that is, they are properly aware of "conflict management" and the need to find a solution.

In addition teachers and students commonly used a limited range of strategies, relying mostly on familiar and reactive conflict management techniques.

Resolving conflict though compromising and problem solving was rare. Student and teacher perceptions of conflict accounted for their handling of conflict. The topic of consciousness and conflict is a new one that is only beginning to be explored in the field of conflict studies. Cutting edge work is being done using the philosophy of Bernard Lonergan, a philosopher-theologian who developed a methodology of interiority, which has File Size: KB.

The Role of Perceptions in Conflict As noted in our basic definition of conflict, we define conflict as a disagreement through which the parties involved. Conflict behavior has been asserted to be a response to competition (8, 41), threat (25), negative evaluation (34), encroachment (2), and coercion (62).

Third party interventions also may be viewed as external events to which the parties react, as in process interventions dis. The collection covers cases involving conflicts and conflict management processes in a wide range of sectoral, ecological and regional settings, including conflicts between urban and rural residents over the management of watersheds, between large- and small-scale agricultural producers over land, between members of different communities over use of forests, and between villagers and.

Introduction. Conflict is not a unique phenomenon therefore it can occur in all formal or informal social settings wherever human beings are interacting with each other. Organizations are no different from other social settings; they are a composition of formal and informal structures in which conflicts do take place.

2 THE BIG BOOK OF CONFLICT-RESOLUTION GAMES real-life situations, especially in the realms of competition and coopera-tion, games can reveal the typical way conflict is dealt with in the team. Teams can begin to understand their usual reactions, and then go on to discover more effective strategies for dealing with similar situations.

The Nature of Resource Based Conflicts and Political Instability in Africa It is axiomatic to argue that African conflicts are resource – oriented. To have few resources at the disposal of a colossal number of people is to direct the emergence of poverty, just as Ghandi of India put it.

File Size: KB. What Is Conflict Theory. Its premise is simple. Developed by Karl Marx, it suggests that society exists in a perpetual state of conflict, rather than harmony. This is because we are all competing for the same, finite resources. In other words, for each social resource, there is a potential for conflict.

vi CONTENTS Conflict intervention 38 The principles of conflict resolution 39 Part II Sources and Situations 41 3 Sources of Conflict 43 Realistic versus non-realistic conflict 43 The roots of conflict 44 Internal psychology and Freud 46 Frustration and aggression 48 Relative deprivation 49 Human needs 51 Functional and dysfunctional conflict 52 Social change 53 Identity formation Key resources in interpersonal conflict; The nature of resources.

A resource can be defined as "any positively perceived physical, economic or social consequence" (Miller and Steinberg65). The resources may be objectively real or perceived as real by the person. Conflict Resolution (CICR), the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), and the EU-UN Partnership on Land, Natural Resources and Conflict Prevention.

This guide collects and summarizes good practices on the successful mediation of resource conflicts. Conflict is an inseparable aspect of people’s as well as organizations’ life.

The study also discovered that conflicts occur in organizations as a result of competition for supremacy, leadership style, scarcity of common resources, etc. Conflict in Schools: Its Causes & Management Strategies Abdul Ghaffar Abstract: Conflict is an essential and unavoidable human phenomenon because where there is human interaction; there is a likelihood of personal likes and dislikes.

These agreements and disagreements among individuals and groups lead them to conflicts. Conflict and Conflict Management aysinh Thakore, Associate Professor, Department of Human Resource Development, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. Abstract: Conflict cannot be avoided since it is an inevitable aspect of work teams.

Conflict may be defined as a. We had a lot of fun creating this reading list of conflict resolution books for our amazing readers at Everyday Power Blog. Reading these type of books is imperative being the society we live in. Where you tend to have people from all backgrounds, cultures, economic levels, with different personalities, upbringings, you want to discover ways to communicate effectively [ ].

Perception. Conflict management definitions frequently contain the word perception. Strategies and tactics to address conflicts are as often directed toward altering the other's perceptions of events as they are directed at substantive issues.Some of these conflicts revolve around relationships you have and can occur for a variety of reasons including competition over things you want or need (money, time, physical resources), the way things should operate or run (a household), or psychological issues (your perception of trust, cooperation, fairness, and respect).effects of natural resource based conflicts on community livelihoods in Ol‟Bolossat catchment area in Nyandarua County.

The study was conducted in twenty villages, simple random sampling of households and purposive sampling of key institutions such as .