Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

Introduction: Roy Lewicki, an expert on framing and negotiation observes that even conflict resolution specialists make framing errors.

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Errors in Framing Conflict
Roy Lewicki
Professor of Management and Human Resources at Ohio State University

Interviewed by
Julian Portilla
2003

We are trying to figure out whether we really can separate conflict resolution values from other political or sociopolitical values and to understand the other perspective better. There is simply not anywhere near enough dialogue with those groups that we pretend to not understand. We think that those other groups are all screwed up because they apparently don't believe in conflict resolution or injustice, as we would define it.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. -- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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