Francesca Bambino Donofrio

Francesca Bambino Donofrio - Conflict Seem to be present in all human relationships and in all societies

(spouses, children parents neighbors in laws subordinates racial groups governments nations communities citizens)

Conflict because of their pervasive presence and can cost a person emotionally, financially, physically.

When people have disputes people often peacefully look to resolve differences – to resolve a difference people want to and people want to do so wit the least cost to themselves.

Disagreements can arise in almost any relationship and the majority of disagreements are handles informally. Initially people may choose to AVOID each other because of the discomfort they fee that often accompanies conflict, they do not consider the issue to be that important, that lack the power to force a change, they do not believe the situation can be improved, or they are not ready to negotiate.

This is called AVOIDANCE – AVOIDANCE is no longer possible when the tensions become so strong that the parties cannot let the disagreement continue – they usually resort to INFORMAL PROBLEM SOLVING DISCUSSIONS o resolve their differences.

When is there dispute in a relationships? It is precipitated by a crisis in a relationship. At this point people can pursue more formal an structures means of voluntarily reaching an agreement, they resort to using a third party decision maker, try to leverage or coerce each other to reach a settlement.