Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations /

• Main Authors: Vallacher, Robin R. (Author), Coleman, Peter T. (Author), Nowak, Andrzej. (Author), Bui-Wrzosinska, Lan. (Author), Liebovitch, Larry. (Author), Kugler, Katharina. (Author), Bartoli, Andrea. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Peace Psychology Book Series
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Physics.; Engineering.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Philosophy (General).; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Complexity.; Psychology, general.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35280-5

Conflict is inherent in virtually every aspect of human relations, from sport to parliamentary democracy, from fashion in the arts to paradigmatic challenges in the sciences, and from economic activity to intimate relationships.� Yet, it can become among the most serious social problems humans face...

Table of Contents:

• Overview: Conflict in Human Experience
• Origins: The Promise of Dynamical Systems Theory
• Foundations: The Dynamical Perspective on Social Processes
• Patterns: Trajectories of Conflict
• Traps: Intractable Conflict as a Dynamical System
• Escape: How Intractable Conflicts Can Be Transformed
• Sustainability: The Dynamics of Enduring Peace
• Epilogue: Conflict in the 21st Century
• Design for Workshops on the Application of Dynamical Systems to Intractable Conflict
• Simulation of Attractor Dynamics
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index.