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Conflict management

Here are entered works which discuss the process of reducing, resolving or suppressing conflict in social and organizational settings producing constructive rather than destructive results.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Management
• Negotiation
• Problem solving
• Social conflict

• Crisis management

• Conflict management -- Africa
• Conflict management -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Conflict management -- Africa, West
• Conflict management -- Case studies
• Conflict management -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Conflict management -- Congresses
• Conflict management -- Developing countries
• Conflict management -- Economic aspects
• Conflict management -- Liberia
• Conflict management -- United States
• Mediation
• Peace-building

• Conflict control
• Conflict resolution
• Dispute settlement
• Management of conflict
• Managing conflict

• Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd-Police Relations (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Shirley Paré (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2007), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report with Executive Summary, by Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (HTML, PDF, and Word at ccpdc.org)
• Compassionate Listening: An Exploratory Sourcebook About Conflict Transformation, by Gene Knudsen-Hoffman, Leah Green, and Cynthia Monroe, ed. by Dennis Rivers (HTML and PDF at coopcomm.org)

• The United States and the Transformation of African Security: The African Crisis Response Initiative and Beyond (1997), by Dan Henk and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Achieving Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cost Effective Alternatives to the Military (2004), ed. by Geoff Harris (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• The Challenge of Stability and Security in West Africa (Washington: World Bank, c2015), by Alexandre Marc, Neelam Verjee, and Stephen Mogaka (PDF with commentary at World Bank)

• A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia (2005), ed. by Festus B. Aboagye and Alhaji M. S. Bah (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by David Carment, Patrick James, and Zeynep Taydas (PDF at Ohio State)

• Challenges of Peace Implementation: The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003), ed. by Mark Malan and João Gomes Porto (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Cultivating Peace: Conflict and Collaboration in Natural Resource Management, ed. by Daniel Buckles (PDF and illustrated HTML at idrc.ca)

• The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016), by Naazneen Barma (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016), by Naazneen Barma (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Building a Peace Economy? Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2014), by Jenny H. Peterson (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Building a Peace Economy? Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2014), by Jenny H. Peterson (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Annual Report of the National Mediation Board, by United States National Mediation Board (full serial archives)

• The Forgotten Peace: Mediation at Niagara Falls, 1914 (c2009), by Michael Small (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)

• International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War (2000), ed. by Paul C. Stern and Daniel Druckman (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Nation-Building (c2013), by James Dobbins, Laurel Miller, Stéphanie Pézard, Christopher S. Chivvis, Julie E. Taylor, Keith Crane, Calin Trenkov-Wermuth, and Tewodaj Mengistu (multiple formats with commentary at rand.org)
• Human Security for All: A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Health and Coooperation, 2004), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

• Arafat's Culture of Hatred and Violence: Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic Hatred in the Palestinian Authority's Media, Schools, Summer Camps, Religious Sermons and Officials' Speeches (New York: Zionist Organization of America, ca. 2000), by Zionist Organization of America (PDF at zoa.org)

• NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery: The Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency, Bougainville (2006), ed. by Helen Hakena, Peter Ninnes, and Bert A. Jenkins (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Dull Disasters? How Planning Ahead Will Make a Difference (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, c2016), by Daniel J. Clarke and Stefan Dercon (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Even in Chaos: Education in Times of Emergency (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2010), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Computing and Communications in the Extreme: Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications, by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Framing the Global Economic Downturn: Crisis Rhetoric and the Politics of Recessions (2009), ed. by Paul 't Hart and Karen Tindall (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans (2013), by United States Department of Education (PDF at ed.gov)

• Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans (2013), by United States Department of Education (PDF at ed.gov)

• Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates (Washington: U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Dept. of Education, 2002), by Robert A. Fein, Brian Vossekuil, William S. Pollack, Randy Borum, William Modzeleski, and Marisa Reddy (PDF at secretservice.gov)
• Report of the National School Shield Task Force (with appendixes; Washington: National Rifle Association, 2013), by National School Shield Task Force (PDF at nraschoolshield.com)

• Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence (second edition, 2009), by International Association of Chiefs of Police (PDF at ojp.gov)

• The Music of Management: Applying Organization Theory (book originally published 2004; electronic edition, c2014), by Dennis R. Young (PDF files at GSU)
• Principles of Management (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Mason Andrew Carpenter, Talya Bauer, and Berrin Erdogan (PDF at saylor.org)
• Managing Strategic Management (first Canadian edition; Victoria, BC: BC Campus, c2014), by Janice Edwards, Dave Ketchen, Jeremy Short, and David Try (multiple formats in Canada)
• Price Discrimination and Marketing Management (Michigan Business Studies v15 #1; 1960), by Brian Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform (originally published 1987; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), ed. by Carmen Sirianni (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• Company Unions Today (International Pamphlets #43; New York: International Pamphlets, 1935), by Robert W. Dunn (PDF at flvc.org)
• Company Unions: Employers' "Industrial Democracy" (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Robert W. Dunn, contrib. by Louis F. Budenz (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Company Unions: A Study of Employee Representation Plans, "Works Councils", and Other Substitutes for labor Unions (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1926), by Robert W. Dunn, contrib. by William Z. Foster (PDF at flvc.org)
• The Hart Schaffner and Marx Labor Agreement: Being a Compilation and Codification of the Agreements of 1911, 1913 and 1916 and Decisions Rendered by the Board of Arbitration (1916), ed. by John Elias Williams, Sidney Hillman, and Earl Dean Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hart, Schaffner and Marx Labor Agreement: Industrial Law in the Clothing Industry (1920), ed. by Earl Dean Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

• African Successes: Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David K. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Fast Company (full serial archives)
• Management Review (partial serial archives)
• American Management Review (full serial archives)

• How to Save Jobs (c2010), by David Gewirtz
  • PDF at wordpress.com
  • Zipped Epub at zatz.com

• Fundamentals of Business (second edition; Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing, 2018), by Stephen J. Skripak (multiple formats with commentary at vt.edu)
• Exploring Business (version 2.0, derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Karen Collins (PDF at saylor.org)
• Gods of Commerce: The Big World View of Business (c1995), by Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
• A History of Business (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1963), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understanding American Business (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Humphrey B. Neill and Howard M. Cool (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the Business Man (New York: Macmillan, 1938), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Business and Law, or, The Careful Man's Guide: A Complete Legal and Business Compendium, Including Facts, Figures, Tables, Weights, Measures, Statistics, Short Cuts in Figures, etc.; To Which is Added, Practical Home Building and The Busy Man's Atlas (Boston et al.: Hertel, Jenkins and Co., 1907), by E. T. Roe and Elihu G. Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Business Psychology (Los Angeles: New Literature Pub. Co., 1912), by Christian D. Larson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of Prosperity: What They Are and Whence They Come (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1920), by Roger Ward Babson (Gutenberg text and page images)
• How to Make Money, and How to Keep It: or, Capital and Labor (Detroit: Chamberlain Pub. Co., 1884), by Thomas A. Davies and Henry A. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, by Walter Dill Scott
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The New Industrial Day (New York: The Century Co., 1913), by William Cox Redfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Theory of Business Enterprise, by Thorstein Veblen (text files at McMaster)
• An Address on Success in Business (1867), by Horace Greeley (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Business Hints for Men and Women, by A. R. Calhoun (Gutenberg text)
• How to Make Money, and How to Keep It (New York: G. W. Carleton; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1867), by Thomas A. Davies (multiple formats at Googld)
• Influencing Men in Business: The Psychology of Argument and Suggestion (New York: Ronald Press Co., 1911), by Walter Dill Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Management Through Accounts (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1924), by James H. Bliss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mayhew's Practical Book-Keeping Embracing Single and Double Entry, Commercial Calculations, and the Philosophy and Morals of Business, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
• Training for Power and Leadership (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1923), by Grenville Kleiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vested Interests and the Common Man, by Thorstein Veblen (text at McMaster)
• The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts ("The Modern Point of View and the New Order") (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Thorstein Veblen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Worth and Wealth: A Collection of Maxims, Morals and Miscellanies for Merchants and Men of Business, by Freeman Hunt (page images at MOA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.