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Another Look at Identity‐Based Conflict: The Roots of Conflct: The Roots of Conflict in the Psychology of Consciousness
Author(s) -
Hicks Tim
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
negotiation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1571-9979
pISSN - 0748-4526
DOI - 10.1111/j.1571-9979.2001.tb00225.x
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , consciousness , identity (music) , conflict resolution , psychology , identity formation , variety (cybernetics) , social psychology , epistemology , sociology , social science , self concept , philosophy , aesthetics , computer science , artificial intelligence , programming language
Conflict scholars and practitionsers have devoted much effort to understanding why differences sometimes escalate into full‐blown conflicts. But not enough attention has been paid to the psychological and physiological process of “reality formation and identity formation” inherent in the nature of individual human consciousness. The author shows how the functions of identity and reality formation pervade human activity, and how they are particularly connected to conflict. This theoretical construct has a variety of implications for mediators and dispute resolution in general, which the author illustrates with a series of brief case examples.