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Seeking sustainable solutions: using an attractor simulation platform for teaching multistakeholder negotiation in complex cases
| Title: | Seeking sustainable solutions: using an attractor simulation platform for teaching multistakeholder negotiation in complex cases. |
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| Name(s): |
Nowak, Andrzej, creator Bui-Wrzosinska, Lan, creator Coleman, Peter T., creator Vallacher, Robin R., creator Jochemczyk, Lukasz, creator Bartkowski, Wieslaw, creator |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 2010 | |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | |
| Extent: | 21p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 2683153 (digitool), FADT2683153 (IID), fau:2640 (fedora), 10.1111/j.1571-9979.2009.00253.x (doi) | |
| FAU Department/College: | Department of Psychology Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | |
| Note(s): |
We live and work in an increasingly complex and dynamic world.The demands of working in such environments require that negotiators understand situations of conflict and work with these situations in correspondingly complex and dynamic ways. Dynamical systems theory offers important insights and tools to enhance the understanding of difficult social conflicts, including the conceptualization of ongoing destructive conflicts as strong attractors: a particular form of self-organization of multiple elements comprising the mental and social systems associated with conflict. This article describes the pedagogical use of a computer simulation of conflict attractors (the attractor software) that allows participants to visualize and work interactively with the dynamics of conflict as they unfold over time. It further describes a negotiation workshop that employs the simulation to enhance participants’ understanding of complex long-term dynamics in conflict and presents the findings of two outcome studies comparing the effectiveness of a workshop that employed the simulation with one that employed a traditional integrative problem-solving method.While not definitive, these studies suggest that an understanding of the dynamical approach to conflict, supported by use of the attractor software, can promote the generation of more sustainable solutions for long-term conflicts. The final published version of this article is available online at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118505154/home Nowak, Andrzej, Lan Bui‐Wrzosinska,Peter T. Coleman, Robin Vallacher, Lukasz Jochemczyk, and Wieslaw Bartkowski. (2010) Seeking Sustainable Solutions: Using an Attractor Simulation Platform for Teaching Multistakeholder Negotiation in Complex Cases, Negotiation Journal 26(1) 49‐68. DOI: 10.1111/j.1571‐9979.2009.00253.x |
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| Subject(s): |
Psychology, Social. Dynamics. Conflict management --Software. Conflict management --Study and teaching. Social conflict. |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2683153 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©2010 The President and Fellows of Harvard College. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
