For example, some courses focus mainly on the prevention
of destructive conflict or the development of partner empathy.
In the following reflection, I share some of what I have learned about turning
destructive conflict into a constructive experience for change and growth.
The skills they learn help them to positively address current conflicts and provide opportunity for preventing a future
destructive conflict cycle.
I know that relationships can be hard work and sometimes people need help to reconnect, to improve communication, and / or to
stop destructive conflict.
For this reason, family litigation is often viewed as a moving target and, for some, it creates an avenue for a never - ending and
destructive conflict cycle.
Using the CDP with leaders has two benefits: it helps them identify where their own behaviors prevent or promote conflict, and it also builds their confidence to recognize constructive and
destructive conflict behaviors in others.
We wanted to test whether relational variables such as satisfaction and commitment might mediate the relationship between mindfulness and conflict strategies: (RQ3) If aspects of mindfulness negatively predict the use of
destructive conflict strategies such as domination or reactivity, does relational satisfaction or commitment mediate the relationship between mindfulness and negative conflict strategies?
Demand - withdraw would seem to be quite different in its form and function compared to mutual avoidance of a conflict topic, and it has been distinguished from other
destructive conflict patterns such as criticize - defend (Futris, Campbell, Nielsen, & Burwell, 2010; Gottman, 1994).
Asking yourself and your partner these questions about the topic of «turning towards» one another won't prevent every argument, or immediately make you feel closer to one another, but it will make it more likely that you'll start turning towards each other more, and thereby develop a deeper friendship, which will protect you
against destructive conflicts.
Here the common good is defined as that which maximizes satisfaction and
minimizes destructive conflict; that is to say, democracy is regarded as a means of organizing for the greatest possible harmonization of desires.
Finally, in the first half of the twentieth century, extreme nationalism plunged the world into the
immensely destructive conflict that was World War II.
We only have to think back to the disastrous European civil war of 1914 - 1918 to realise the truth that even the interdependent character of the modern global economy is no insurance against
mutually destructive conflict.»
Having worked with hundreds of animal welfare advocates and organizations, Karen witnessed how often unhealthy organizational cultures, ineffective communication and
destructive conflict interfered with efforts to save animals.
She found a positive association between constructive messages (labeled integrative) and marital satisfaction, and a negative association between
destructive conflict messages (labeled disintegrative) and marital satisfaction.
Patterns of
destructive conflict typically involve reciprocation of negative affect between partners (Gottman, 1994) and escalation of conflict intensity, which typically leaves the conflicting partners dissatisfied with the aftermath (Deutsch, 1973).
A desire to combine his professional expertise with his interest in helping individuals, couples and groups work through
destructive conflicts lead Barry to pursue a second graduate degree in Conflict Management and Peacemaking at Fresno Pacific University.
Other reasons while couples embark on a trial separation is to obtain some form of relief from
existing destructive conflict, to lessen negative communications, to not to take each other for granted, achieve a healthier feeling of independence and self - control.
We found that higher intimacy predicted more constructive and
less destructive conflict, which is consistent with previous work (Sanderson & Karetsky, 2002).
We need to understand reconciliation within the Church as the transformation of
destructive conflict.
One can gain some measure of this attainment by imagining the chaos and
destructive conflict that would ensue if all records of economic transactions should disappear.
Antagonism, conflict, and social tension and disorder are increased, and new class divisions are generated to counteract
the destructive conflict.
It will be argued in what follows that
these destructive conflicts are due to a misconception of the provinces of the several branches of disciplined knowledge about man.
For it is by means of the conceptual richness of his inexhaustible pure possibilities that God is able to absorb into himself the multifariousness of the world, overcoming the evil of
its destructive conflicts through the higher harmonies this infinite imagination provides.
We probably have more experience with the characteristics of
destructive conflict: secrecy, threats, coercion and bluffs, misperception and miscommunication, unbridled competition in which one party tries to destroy, injure, or control the other (s) and in which one party gains only at the other's expense.
«Those who remember
the destructive conflicts of the past will be determined not to go back to them.
It took the Protestant Reformation and more than a century of bloody,
destructive conflict to convince people that this belief had become a source of political and social disorder.
The third installment in the fan - favorite «Dragon Age» series casts players as warlords who must bring an end to
the destructive conflict between the liberated Mages and the overbearing Templars.