International Journal of Conflict Management: Volume 23 Issue 4

Scissors cut paper: purposive and contingent strategies in a conflict situation

Christopher J. Meyer, Blaine McCormick, Aimee Clement, Rachel Woods, Chuck Fifield

This paper aims to focus on a little studied but important type of conflict, zero‐sum situations. These conflicts are less likely to take place than those in which participants…

Cognitive‐experiential self theory and conflict‐handling styles: Rational and constructive experiential systems are related to the integrating and compromising conflict‐handling styles

Tom Cerni, Guy J. Curtis, Susan H. Colmar

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the rational and experiential systems according to the cognitive‐experiential self theory (CEST) are related to conflict‐handling…

Chinese employees' interpersonal conflict management strategies

Hannah‐Hanh D. Nguyen, Jie Yang

The main research purposes of this paper are to: conceptualize Chinese conflict management behaviors as contingent on the hierarchical relations of conflict parties in an…

Examining the role of identity in negotiation decision making:the case of Cyprus

Cigdem V. Sirin

This study aims to examine the effects of ethnic and social identities on negotiation decision making in the context of the Cyprus conflict.

The effectiveness of a mediation program in symmetrical versus asymmetrical neighbor‐to‐neighbor conflicts

Elze G. Ufkes, Ellen Giebels, Sabine Otten, Karen I. van der Zee

The last decades, neighborhood mediation programs have become an increasingly popular method to deal with conflicts between neighbors. In the current paper the aim is to propose…