Conflicts are more effectively managed if people understand the layers meaning in their conflicts and collaborate based on those meanings. In this book, author Peter M. Kellett analyzes and interprets real-life conflict stories as a way to create opportunities for more productive ways to navigate and resolve conflict.

Part I. Conflict Stories, Dialogue, and Negotiation. Concepts and Techniques

1. Stories and the Meaning of Conflicts
2. From Meaning---to Dialogic Negotiation---to New Meaning
3. Language as the Fabric of Conflict---and the Foundation for Dialogic Negotiation

Part II. Conflict Stories and the Negotiation of Relationship Dynamics

4. We Belong Together but We Still Have Conflict. Negotiating Synchronicity in Relationships
5. Where Do We Go From Here? Negotiating Through---and Learning From---Crossroads Moments in Relationships

Part III. Stories and the Psychodynamics of Conflict

6. What Is This Really About? Working With Displacement in Conflict Communication
7. What Do We Represent to Each Other? Understanding Projection and Negotiating Conflict

Part IV. Using Story Dynamics to Understand and Negotiate Conflict

8. Heroes and Sheroes, Villians, Victims, and Fools. Using Story Archetypes to Understand Conflicts
9. Learning to Tell the Next Chapter. Story Archetypes and the Negotiation and Mediation of New Meanings in Conflicts
10. Putting It All Together. From an Old Story---to a New Meaning---to a New Story
References
Index
About the Author