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Interpersonal Conflict
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I Beg to Differ: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Truth and LovePublication Date: 2014-02-28
In today's polarized world, friends and strangers clash with each other over issues large and small. Muehlhoff provides a strategy for having difficult conversations, helping us move from contentious debate to constructive dialogue. By acknowledging and entering into the other person's story, we are more likely to understand where they're coming from and to cultivate common ground. Insights from Scripture and communication theory provide practical ways to manage disagreements and resolve conflicts.
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A Communicative Approach to Conflict, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation : Reimagining Our RelationshipsPublication Date: 2018-11-08
This book synthesizes communication and psychology scholarship that focuses on rebuilding ourselves and our relationships when things go "wrong". It provides fresh insights into the burgeoning body of forgiveness research, with an emphasis on community application and reconciliation. The book makes forgiveness and reconciliation research accessible to students in courses focused on personal relationships, conflict, and family studies.
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Strategic Conflict by Daniel J. Canary; Sandra LakeyPublication Date: 2012-07-03
This book offers an analysis of how people can manage conflict productively. Moving beyond the basics, it examines interpersonal situations in which conflict occurs and promotes communicative responses based on the latest theoretical research.
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Boundaries Face to Face : how to have that difficult conversation you've been avoiding by Henry CloudPublication Date: 2003
They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships. They have discovered that uncomfortable--even dangerous--situations can often be avoided or resolved through direct conversation. But most of us don't know how to go about having difficult conversations. We see confrontation as scary or adversarial. We're afraid to ask a boss for a raise or talk to a relative about a drinking problem, or even address a relational conflict with a spouse or someone we are dating.
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Conflict by Martin Jones (Editor); Andrew Fabian (Editor)Publication Date: 2006-02-05
Conflict, sadly, is part of our everyday life; experienced at home, in the workplace, on our TV screens. But is it an inevitable part of the fabric of our existence? In this volume, eight experts examine conflict at many levels, from the workings of genes to the evolution of galaxies. Evolutionary biologist David Haig examines why we disagree with ourselves, and psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen asks whether differences between the average male and female mind must necessarily lead to misunderstanding.
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Conflict Dialogue: working with layers of meaning for productive relationships by Peter M. KellettPublication Date: 2006-01-01
This book provides a clear, systematic, theoretically grounded discussion that enables the readers to analyze and manage conflicts based on their tangible and symbolic meanings. Using personal stories from real conflicts in the workplace, intimate relationships, friendships, families and communities to illustrate the various ways conflict interconnect this book offers theoretical discussions that are balanced with methodological implications for working with, and resolving, conflicts.
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