Conflict Management (CM)
The Conflict Management Division supports research, teaching and practice in the areas of conflict, power, and negotiation.
681 Members
Division
Officers
- Chair Jamie L. Perry
- Chair-Elect Dejun “Tony” Kong
- Program Chair Sarah Doyle
- Program Chair-Elect Deshani Ganegoda
- Past Chair Laura Rees
Domain Statement
Conflict Management focuses on the nature and management of conflicts at the individual, group, organizational, interorganizational and societal level; power processes including influence, coalitions, coercion, deterrence, and persuasion; bargaining and negotiation, negotiator characteristics and behaviors; collaboration and competition; third party interventions (such as facilitation, arbitration, mediation); distributive and procedural justice and dispute resolution procedures. Major topics include application of the above conceptual foci to a wide variety of contexts including team interactions, intercultural relations, organizational diversity, labor relations, workplace disputes, community conflict and public policy development.