Theology · Boston College
This course considers conflict resolution methods in several different types of contexts: personal and family, organizational and work, and international peace-making. Among the methods analyzed and practiced in role playing exercises are: methods for resisting win-lose behaviors, dialogic methods for developing creative solutions to conflicts, circle practices, and various third-party facilitation and mediation techniques. Personal skill development as well as careers in conflict resolution are explored. In addition, different types of personal and communal philosophical, religious, and spiri