Irrational Confrontation: A Personal Conflict Analysis

In times of war, history shows how people from across culture respond to conflict. In world war II some people respond to conflict by mass genocide, hate, fear and by losing faith. However, others respond with a positive attitude love, and hope. Also in a war some people lose the ones they love.

We would always begin our practices with sprints and one long run before we continued with technical drills. Many girls struggled with the endurance aspect of soccer. I would always do my best to finish the run, then immediately head back to the last person running in to finish so that they would not feel singled out during these athletic struggles. I thought of how great our soccer team was going to become. The chemistry seemed just right and to the point where we could see ourselves winning the district tournament at the end of the year. Unfortunately, my dreams of victory came to a halt when I started to see divisions on the team. These divisions started due to one of the seniors talking down to underclassman, especially to one of the most talented girls on the team who became our top scorer. This particular senior became jealous of our top scorer and decided to ban girls together so they wouldn’t assist her in her attempts to score. Thankfully our team’s talent led us to win most of our games, but I could see how much these divisions were hurting us as a team. I decided to talk to my soccer coach about the matter to get his opinion. He reminded of my captain position, and how I am expected try to resolve these situations as well. I concluded that

My main intention is to persuade the audience on the topic that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it and to pass year 12. The violent encounters of the past contain valuable lessons about resolving conflict. This writing is to be directed at the people reading it, which will be the general audience that doesn’t really understand the lessons of past and present conflict. Based on real world examples, and examples from the crucible. The style of writing is an expository.

Some individuals decide to take action to handle the situation while others won’t. There are people like Winston Churchill, a leader , who is brave and will not back down. On the contrary Shmuel , a prisoner at a concentration camp, deals with conflict the opposite way that Churchill does. Although their struggles are a bit different , this shows what kind of person they are.

The three stories that I am going to talk about are “A story of conflicts” by Yeghia Aslanian, “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “My way of theirs” by Liu Zongren. We can see how difficult is to made relationships when you move from one place to another and the culture is different. In the story of Zongren I see that people in China were so conservative at that time, and if sometime was unusual people will look at you and weird way. I want to mention this quote as example “her blouse was too open at the neck”. People in general have different thoughts, and custom around the world. Nowadays everything is more liberal and open mind. Also the people do not look at you in bad way for the way that you are wearing you can go out how you want it, wear whatever you want, etc. Is hard to live in a place that you have to take care of everything and do the things how people thing that are correct, because if you don’t, people will start talking about you and then you can get bad reputation.

Conflict can bring out the best and worst side of people, being is such stressful or demeaning situations the feeling of hope or fear attends to appear. In The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, conflict is the main theme in the book and observing the way Najaf gives himself hope when in woomera struggling to understand how he is going to survive. The man Frank Lowry who was trapped in a detention camp working his way out of the danger he was now found himself owning Westfield shopping centres. These 2 characters having to relate to conflict, shows they were both on a situation of mental strength and hope to make a better living and in away from a near death situation.

My external conflict is Ronda, if I do not fulfill my intention the outcome could go one of three ways:

Conflict and how people respond to it are what make us human. Throughout history we see many ways different individuals reacted to conflict. Strength is one of the best ways to respond to conflict.

After reading the four most popular theoretical perspectives, I believe that the conflict theory most describes the society we have today. I like the point of the conflict theory about having limited resources and everyone fighting for the top, and once you are at the topic you force social order on the classes below you.

Conflict is pretty much inevitable when you work with others. Everyone have different viewpoints and under the right set of circumstances, those differences could pile up and escalate to conflict. How you handle that conflict determines whether it works to the team's advantage, or contributes to its disadvantage. Conflict isn't necessarily a terrible thing. Healthy and constructive conflict is a factor of high-functioning teams. Conflict arises because of the differences between people, the same differences that often make diverse teams more effective than those made up of people with similar experience. When people with varying viewpoints, experiences, skills, and opinions are tasked with a project or challenge, the combined effort can far surpass what any group of similar

Conflict theory is the theory that human behavior in social contexts is the result of conflicts between competing groups, as different social groups, be they class-, gender- or race-defined, have unequal power and access to power, yet all groups compete for limited resources. This inevitably gives rise to tension and conflict, albeit often of the subtle variety, as oftentimes the conflicts between groups have been institutionalized in society to such a degree that the conflicts and tensions are such an expected part of society that the conflict, and inequality, itself disappears from public sight, and consciousness. For example, an adherent of a world systems theory of conflict would point to the global competition for resources, particularly the inequality between rich and poor nations struggling to provide the basic necessities of life to their inhabitants, as evidence of global conflict. Conflict theories seek to explain the interactions of groups within society, and assert that social order is preserved involuntarily through the exercise of power one social class holds over another (Lindsey, 2010, 7). The conflict between groups is not always obvious or apparent, so it must be unraveled and examined in order to identify and establish the impact of such conflict on society as a whole, as well as individual members and social groupings.

Conflict management is the detriment of many teams or groups in accomplishing its goals. This is because most people do not understand the different conflict styles and how to apply the rules and principles associated with the style you may be dealing with. In this paper I will analyze three of the five management styles discussed in the textbook Communication in Small Groups. Avoidance and competition are two styles that I believe have the greatest effect on hindering a group or team from accomplishing its goals. Collaboration, however, is a style that I believe is most effective in

The occurrence and recurrence of wars are made by rational actors, but what are the prerequisites for a war? There are numerous answers to this question with a wide range of answers that give a perspective on the various sources of conflict. The first is that the cost of war cannot be outrageously high. The anticipated outcome of gaining resources, power, and/or territory cannot exceed the expected cost of conflict, including damages to property and life. The second is that a failure in bargaining must be present to create the inability of reaching a mutual agreement. Understanding war between rational actors and why bargaining fails is based on five factors:

Over the last 2 decades it has been understood that collaboration of different areas play a huge role understanding human behavior. In the other hand, being rational, according to the Oxford definition, is “being able to think sensibly or logically. Using reason and logic”. If emotions did not affect our rationality, how can we possibly have so much crime and at the same time, so much success from others? The same answer is applied to this part of the question; emotions alone do not affect our rationality. It is a complex system of interconnected networks including emotions, cognitions, physiology, psychology and more.

The conflict that I had was a conflict at work which involved employees almost completely ignoring established standards and regulations regarding appropriate use on network and Internet resources. I needed to come up with a solution because assuring that employees and students follow established standards is one of my responsibilities. I work for a large public school district with 10,000 employees and 73,000 students. As a system programmer, I lack the authority to actually dictate a solution to this problem and I am far enough removed from the management ranks where even if I did provide a solution myself, it would not be taken seriously. I decided to use root cause analysis and assemble a team of stakeholders to find the actual cause