Psychology of conflict 3402-20PKNL

Main issues discussed during the lectures: 1. Conflict - definitional problems. "Pattern of conflict" by Deutsch. Social correlation as the source of conflict situation. Conflict dynamics 2. Conflict dynamics and conflict escalation. Factors empowering conflict escalation. Conflict circle - Moore's conception. The danger to the identity as a conflict source 3. Conflict - structural analysis. Theory of games of von Neumann and Morgenstern. Game as a normative model of conflict. Game as a descriptive model of conflict. Non zero sum game. Rationality criteria. Usability. 4 Experimental game as model of conflict situation. Psychological research and the outcome. Factors empowering cooperation. Empirical miscarriages as the sources of inspiration for conflict theoreticians. 5. Dilemmas and social traps - conflict of individual and group rationality. Multi player non zero sum games. Social dilemma as a conflict source. Types of dilemma. Dilemmas vs. social traps. 6. Conflict - psycho social analysis. Psychological conceptions of justice. Adam's Equity theory. Walster, Walster, Berscheid, Lerner's Equity theory, theory of just world, theory of social shirking 7. Conflict - psychological theory, Theory of social orientations. Justice and cooperation - influence of social comparisons. Orientation towards community and orientation towards exchange - Clark and Mills conception 8. What to do with the conflicts? Change of the attitude towards conflict: conflict prevention, conflict resolution, conflict management, conflict transformation, conflict prevention. Positive aspects of conflicts 9. Procedures of conflict resolution. Negotiations, mediations, facilitation, arbitrage. 10 Application of mediation procedures in Poland and worldwide. Neighbor conflict resolution. Divorce conflict resolution. Equal age conflict resolution. Resolution of group conflicts: employers - Unions. Mediation of ecological and investment conflicts. Victim - offender mediation 12. Retributive justice - theory and practice. Philosophical and cultural roots of the retributive justice. Procedures of retributive justice 13. Mediations in non industrial societies. Examples of the application of mediation procedures. The Role of a mediator. Differences in mediation models in non industrial societies and Western civilization 14. Cultural differences in negotiations: pro transactive vs. pro partnership cultures, monochronic vs. polichronic cultures, ceremonial - hierarchic cultures vs. non ceremonial and egalitarian cultures, expressive vs. moderate cultures 15.Cultural enclosures in the application of constructive models of conflict resolution. Constructive models of conflict resolution - theory or ideology? Peacemaking vs. conflict resolution. Civilization conflicts.