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The Disciplinary Roots of Conflict Intervention

The Disciplinary Roots of Conflict Intervention. How Should Theory Shape Our Practice?. Principle # 1. Conflict intervention can and should be rooted in existing theory and research. Principle #1 Effects. Decreases the likelihood faulty, harmful, or misleading intervention practice.

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The Disciplinary Roots of Conflict Intervention

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  1. The Disciplinary Roots of Conflict Intervention How Should Theory Shape Our Practice?

  2. Principle # 1 Conflict intervention can and should be rooted in existing theory and research.

  3. Principle #1 Effects • Decreases the likelihood faulty, harmful, or misleading intervention practice. • Supports the development of systematic and replicable intervention practice.

  4. Principle #2 Conflict theory and research is inherently inter-disciplinary.

  5. Principle #2 Effects Discourages a myopic view of conflict theory and research that restricts practitioners’ intervention options

  6. Theoretical Perspectives The Biological Perspective The Psychodynamic Perspective The Social Psychological Perspective The Interpretive Perspective The Interactional Perspective The Structural Perspective The Critical Perspective

  7. Principle #3 Specific insights from theory and research offer optionsfor intervention but do not dictate practitioner choices.

  8. Principle # 3: Effects • Deters practitioners from mistaking a theoretical understanding for a directive about what mustbe done in intervention practice. • Encourages scholars to acknowledge the values they enact when they move from a research insight to a recommendation for intervention practice.

  9. Principle #4 Ideological commitments shape practitioners’ decisions about how theory/research is used in conflict intervention.

  10. Principle#4: Effects Discourages Ideological Promiscuity • Espouse party-driven (bottom-up) commitments but enact intervener-driven (top-down) intervention practices • Fail to acknowledge that all intervention skills are linked to ideological purpose • Abandon the valued uniqueness of intervention practices

  11. Ideological Beliefs and Conflict Intervention Practice • Assumptions about Human Nature • Assumptions about the Nature of Conflict • Assumptions about What Productive Conflict Is • Assumptions about the Role of Social Institutions in Conflict Intervention

  12. Holding the Conflict Field Accountable √ Linking Theory to Practice √ Understanding the inter-disciplinary nature of the field √ Clarifying ideological commitments that shape the way theory and research are invoked in practice √ Avoiding ideological promiscuity

  13. Thank you! jfolger@temple.edu www.transformativemediation.org

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