What is the greatest hope in working with intractable conflicts?
define aggression and violence and describe the theoretical characteristics of each across perspectives that posit aggression and violence as innate, internal, social, moral, cultural, and structural. What are the practice implications? Support your insights with both the text and supplemental materials assigned this week.
What makes conflict intractable and what paradigms exist to help move past impasse towards more constructive resolution?Provide an example of global conflict and briefly analyze it using a dynamic systems model and the ten guidelines for altering the attractor landscapes of intractable conflicts.Apply the theoretical conceptions and psychological factors of the change process to a conflict case study.What else do you want to share from this week’s readings that was particularly interesting, useful, or meaningful to you?What if anything was confusing, controversial for you or did not make any sense at all?
