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IS03 Reconciliation Island - Conflict and Reconciliation

A ten week course covering different viewpoints on Conflict and Conflict Management.

Course material overview

There are ten weeks, covering different viewpoints on Conflict and Conflict Management. We think of them as different places on "Reconciliation Island". They are:

  • Week 1 - Introduction to conflict and conflict management: Conflict Arena
  • Week 2 - Why conflicts fail to resolve: Duelling Hall
  • Week 3 - Professional approaches to conflict management: Last Chance Court
  • Week 4 - Boundaries and conflict: Dividing Wall
  • Week 5 - Social dimensions of conflict: Refuge Castle
  • Week 6 - Psychological consequences: Trauma Hospital
  • Week 7 - Individuals in conflict with themselves: Turmoil Studio
  • Week 8 - Families in conflict: Torn Home
  • Week 9 - Organizations in conflict: Battle Valley
  • Week 10 - How conflicts resolve: Resolution Parliament

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Aims

This 10 week, distance learning unit provides students with an overview of conflict and its management. Various models for understanding and therapeutically intervening in conflict will be discussed, and different aspects of conflict considered- why some conflicts fail to resolve, professional approaches to conflict management, social and psychological dimensions of conflict, and the impact of conflict upon the family. By the end of the unit, students will have an integrated perspective on conflict, and an ability to evaluate individual problems and the best method of intervention. Learning is flexible and dynamic, taking place via webpages, discussion forums and chatroom tutorials.

Learning outcomes

  1. understanding of how and why conflicts arise
  2. ability to analyze why some conflicts fail to resolve
  3. ability to synthesize strategies for therapeutically intervening in conflict scenarios
  4. ability to evaluate individual conflicts and the best method of intervening therapeutically in relation to them
  5. ability to apply conflict management theory to conflict scenarios
  6. ability to justify evaluations and interventions to peers
  7. update of contemporary psychotherapy/counselling literature and developments in the field
  8. ability to use written expression in conjunction with appropriate academic sources and conventions to present logical analysis and argument in relation to the unit 
  9. skills in use of collaborative eLearning methods and online resources

Resources

You will not be required to buy any books, but you may want to look at the main text for the unit which is:

  • Deutsch, M. & Coleman, P.T. (Eds) (2000) The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

You may also want to look at the following:

  • Biggar, N. (ed) (2001) Burying The Past: Making Peace And Doing Justice After Civil Conflict, Washington: Georgetown University Press
  • Gilligan, J. (2001) Preventing Violence, London : Thames & Hudson.
  • Glasl, F. (1999) Confronting Conflict: A First Aid Kit For Handling Conflict; translated by Petra Kopp. Stroud: Hawthorn.
  • Gottman, J. M. (1999) The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically-Based Marital Therapy, New York ; London : W. W. Norton.
  • Scheff, T. J. (1994) Bloody Revenge : Emotions, Nationalism, And War, Boulder , Colo; Oxford : Westview Press.