Communication and Conflict in Multiple Settings

Marta Rzepecka

ISBN 10: 9004371257 / ISBN 13: 9789004371255

Published by Brill Jun 2018, 2018

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Neuware - Communication decisively impacts upon all our lives. This inherent need to connect may either be soothing or painful, a source of intimate understanding or violent discord. Consequently, how it is brokered is challenging and often crucial in situations where those involved have quite different ways of being in and seeing the world. Good communication is equated with skills that intentionally facilitate change, the realisation of desirable outcomes and the improvement of human situations. Withdrawal of communication, or its intentional manipulation, provokes misunderstanding, mistrust, and precipitates the decline into disorder. This international collection of work specifically interrogates conflict as an essential outworking of communication, and suggests that understanding of communication's potency in contexts of conflict can directly influence reciprocally positive outcomes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Communication and Conflict in Multiple Settings
• Publisher: Brill Jun 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004371257
• ISBN 13: 9789004371255
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 152H x 18D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 440 grams

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Synopsis

Communication decisively impacts upon all our lives. This inherent need to connect may either be soothing or painful, a source of intimate understanding or violent discord. Consequently, how it is brokered is challenging and often crucial in situations where those involved have quite different ways of being in and seeing the world. Good communication is equated with skills that intentionally facilitate change, the realisation of desirable outcomes and the improvement of human situations. Withdrawal of communication, or its intentional manipulation, provokes misunderstanding, mistrust, and precipitates the decline into disorder. This international collection of work specifically interrogates conflict as an essential outworking of communication, and suggests that understanding of communication’s potency in contexts of conflict can directly influence reciprocally positive outcomes.

About the Author

Peter Bray, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Counselling at the University of Auckland. Peter has recently edited a number interdisciplinary volumes which reflect his developing interest in spirituality, heroic identity and the transformational aspects of loss and trauma.

Marta Rzepecka, PhD, is a Lecturer at the University of Rzeszów. Her main research interest has been the American presidency, especially 20th century presidents’ foreign policy. She is an author of publications on presidential rhetoric, anti-Communism, and anti-terrorism.