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Culture, Communication, and Conflict



  • Describe the "conflict as opportunity" and "conflict as destructive" orientations to conflict.
  • Define interpersonal conflict and its characteristics.
  • List the basic principles of nonviolence.
  • Suggest some ways in which cultures differ in their views toward conflict.
  • Identify five different types of conflict.
  • Identify and describe strategies for dealing with interpersonal conflict.
  • Understand how people come by their conflict strategies.
  • Discuss the relationship between ethnicity, gender, and conflict communication. Describe how conflict styles vary in individualistic and collectivistic societies.
  • Define social movements.
  • Explain why it is important to understand the role of the social and historical contexts in intercultural conflicts.
  • List the characteristics of intercultural conflict.
  • Discuss some suggestions for dealing with intercultural conflicts.







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