Praise for The Handbook of Conflict Resolution

	"This handbook is a classic. It helps connect the research of academia to the practical realities of peacemaking and peacebuilding like no other. It is both comprehensive and deeply informed on topics vital to the field like power, gender, cooperation, emotion, and trust. It now sits prominently on my bookshelf."
	—Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

	"The Handbook of Conflict Resolution offers an astonishing array of insightful articles on theory and practice by leading scholars and practitioners. Students, professors, and professionals alike can learn a great deal from studying this Handbook."
	—William Ury, Director, Global Negotiation Project, Harvard University; coauthor, Getting to Yes and author, The Third Side

	"Morton Deutsch, Peter Coleman, and Eric Marcus put together a handbook that will be helpful to many. I hope the book will reach well beyond North America to contribute to the growing worldwide interest in the constructive resolution of conflict. This book offers instructive ways to make this commitment a reality."
	—George J. Mitchell, Former majority leader of the United States Senate; former chairman of the Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland and the International Fact-Finding Committee on Violence in the Middle East; chairman of the board, Walt Disney Company; senior fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

	"Let's be honest. This book is just too big to carry around in your hand. But that's because it is loaded with the most critical essays linking the theory and practice of conflict resolution. The Handbook of Conflict Resolution is heavy on content and should be a well-referenced resource on the desk of every mediator—as it is on mine."
	—Johnston Barkat, Assistant Secretary-General, Ombudsman and Mediation Services, United Nations

Concepts of Self and Morality: Women's Reasoning About Abortion

The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice

1. Introduction 2. Striving for community 3. Discontents revisited 4. Social judgments and social contexts 5. The development of moral and social judgments 6. Social thought and social action 7. Social harmony and social conflict 8. Justice, heterogeneity, and cultural practices 9. Social hierarchy, subordination, and human capabilities 10. Perspectives on cultural practices: more than one 11. Subversion in everyday life 12. Conclusion.

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The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context, and Conflict

Indian and American adults' and children's (N = 400) moral reasoning about hypothetical situations in which an agent failed to help someone experiencing either life-threatening, moderately serious, or minor need was compared. For 1/3 of Ss, the agent's relationship to the needy other was portrayed as that of parent; for another 1/3, as that of best friend; for the rest, as that of stranger. Indians tended to regard the failure to aid another in moral terms in all conditions. In contrast, Americans tended to view it in moral terms only in life-threatening cases or in cases of parents responding to the moderately serious needs of their children. The results imply that Indian culture forwards a broader and more stringent view of social responsibilities than does American culture. Discussion centers on theoretical implications of the various cultural, need, role, and developmental effects observed.

Perceptions of social responsibilities in India and in the United States: moral imperatives or personal decisions?

“Macromorality” concerns the formal structure of society, as defined by institutions, rules, and roles “Micromorality” concerns the particular face-to-face relations that people have in everyday life Kohlbergian theories are most useful for issues of macromorality The Defining Issues Test (DIT) derives from Kohlberg's approach but makes several departures, including defining cognitive structures in terms of schemas instead of stages, reformulating the definition of postconventional moral thinking, and using different research strategies The validity of the DIT is based on seven criteria (briefly discussed), and hundreds of studies have produced significant trends Recent research derived from schema theory produces novel phenomena that link our theory of moral schemas more closely with information processing and decision making

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A Neo-Kohlbergian Approach: The DIT and Schema Theory

Social information processing and moral domain theories have developed in relative isolation from each other despite their common focus on intentional harm and victimization, and mutual emphasis on social cognitive processes in explaining aggressive, morally relevant behaviors. This article presents a selective summary of these literatures with the goal of showing how they can be integrated into a single, coherent model. An essential aspect of this integration is Crick and Dodge's (1994) distinction between latent mental structures and online processing. It is argued that moral domain theory is relevant for describing underlying mental structures regarding the nature and boundaries of what is moral, whereas the social information processing model describes the online information processing that affects application of moral structures during peer interactions.

Concepts of Self and Morality: Women's Reasoning About Abortion

Citations

The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice

The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context, and Conflict

Perceptions of social responsibilities in India and in the United States: moral imperatives or personal decisions?

A Neo-Kohlbergian Approach: The DIT and Schema Theory

Aggression and Moral Development: Integrating Social Information Processing and Moral Domain Models

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