Use the Conflict Assessment Guide in Ch. 7 of the Wilmot/Hocker text to structure an analysis of an interpersonal conflict. This is a formal written assignment, Expressed in 15 paragraphs. The paper should be well-organized and well-written with no grammar or spelling errors.
Describe a current or past conflict of your own and comprehensively analyze it. The focus should be analyzing the conflict, not resolving it.
Utilize vocabulary
system dynamics
self-fulfiling prophesy
Macro- level analysisWholeness
Organization
Patterning
Circular causality
Descriptive language
Morphogenesis
Conflict stages
Conflict triangles
Conflicted
Toxic triangle
Isolate
Coalitions
System isolates
Heavy communicator
Micro-level analysis
Interaction rules
Interaction rules
Microevents
System rules
Conflict Assessment Guide
Difficult Conversations Guide
Macro- level analysisWholeness
Organization
Patterning
Circular causality
Descriptive language
Morphogenesis
Conflict stages
Conflict triangles
Conflicted
Toxic triangle
Isolate
Coalitions
System isolates
Heavy communicator
Micro-level analysis
Interaction rules
Interaction rules
Microevents
System rules
Conflict Assessment Guide
Difficult Conversations Guide
Points to consider as a reference guide only are listed below (Questions below are not to be answered by tutor just a reference guide for paper only)
Comprehensive guides:
Conflict assessment guide
1.you want to look at the nature of the conflict the triggering event what is the 2.historical means of what the conflict is related to the relationship between both parties involved in what is going on in the external means of what the conflict is involved in our related to.
3. Do the parties have assumptions about conflict that are discernible by their choices of conflict metaphors patterns of behavior or clear expressions of their attitudes about conflict?
4. Conflict elements:
*Path of struggle being expressed by each person involved in the conflict?
*What are the perceived incompatible goals?
*What are the perceived scarce resources?
*In what ways are the parties interdependent? How are they interfering with one another? How are they cooperating to keep the conflicts in motion?
5. Has a conflict Affiliated between productive and destructive faces? If so what elements were transformed during the productive Cycles? Which elements might be transformed by Creative Solutions to the conflict?
Orientation to the conflict
1. What attitudes towards conflict do participants seem to hold?
2. Do they perceive conflict as positive, negative, or neutral? How can you tell?
3. What metaphoric images do conflict participants use? What metaphors might you use to describe the conflict?
4. What is the cultural background of the participants? What is the cultural context in which the conflict takes place?
5. How my gender roles, limitations, and expectations be operating in this conflict?
Interests and goals
1. How do the parties clarify their goals? Do they face them in individualisticor systematic terms?
2. What does each party think the other’s goals are? Are they similar or dissimilar to the perceptions of self – goals?
3. How have the goals been altered from the beginning of the conflict to the present? And what ways are the perspective, transactive, and retrospective goals similar or dissimilar?
4. What are the topic, relational, identity, and process goals?
5. How do the trip goals overlap with one another?
6. Which goals seem to be
primary at different stages of the dispute?
7. Are the conflict parties “specializing”in one type or the other?
8. Are the identity and relational issues the “drivers”of this dispute?
9. Are any of the goals and working in different forms?
10. How did tgoals Shift during the perspective, transactive, and retrospective phases?
Power
What attitudes about their own and the other powers does each party have? Do they talk openly about power or is it not discussed?
What do the party see as their own in the others dependencies on one another? As an external Observer, can you classify some dependencies that they do not list?
What power currencies do the party see themselves and the other possessing?
From an external perspective, what power currencies of which the participants are not aware seem to be operating?
In what ways do the parties disagree on the balance of power between them? If you don’t underestimate their own or the others influence?
What impact does each party’s assessment of power have on subsequent choices in the conflict?
What evidence of destructive “power balancing” occurs?
In what ways do observers of conflict agree and disagree with the parties’
Assessments of their power?
What are some unused sources of power that are present?
Styles
What individual styles did each party use?
How did the individual Styles change during the course of the conflict?
How did the parties perceive the other Style?
In what way did a party style reinforce the choices the other party made as the conflict progressed?
Where the style choice is primarily symmetric or complementary?
