This 40 page guide is aimed at people and groups working for social change who want to develop an understanding of conflict and how to deal with it. There are sections on what conflict is, the benefits of addressing it, and tools to work though conflict and maintain healthy and effective social change groups.
Conflict Infrastructure refers to a set of dedicated and enacted policies, procedures, processes, resources, time, labor, emotional and social energy that is set up to address conflicts that arise within an organization and/or the social ecosystem that organization exists within, impacts, and is impacted by. This workbook can be used to review what infrastructure may need to be set up within organisations to address conflict.
Creating Conflict Infrastructure workbook.pdf
So what do we do when we inevitably run into conflict? This conflict workbook was written for groups working towards a shared purpose and was written by two people who come from community-building and social movement backgrounds.
Community-Based Intervention to Interpersonal Violence
A series of articles, best practices, and tools for engaging successfully in challenging conversations.
CircleofConflictAdaptation.pdf
Christopher Moore’s Circle of Conflict identified five sources of conflict: values, relationships, data, interests and structure. The circle is adapted to include language as a source of conflicts and expands values conflicts to include adaptive challenges. The adapted circle depicts the six sources graphically. Understand that conflicts often have multiple sources. The size of each segment reflects the likelihood of that source being present. Sources of conflict that are difficult to resolve tend to persist over time
Looping is a communication technique that transforms how we listen and connect with others. It reveals the meaning underneath emotions and unlocks deeper motivations.
For when people are stuck in conflict. Designed to help break through the usual talking points and understand a division more deeply.