Conflicts are more effectively managed if people understand the layers meaning in their conflicts and collaborate based on those meanings. In this book, author Peter M. Kellett analyzes and interprets real-life conflict stories as a way to create opportunities for more productive ways to navigate and resolve conflict.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Conflict Stories, Dialogue, and Negotiation: Concepts and Techniques1: Stories and the Meaning of Conflicts2: From Meaning---to Dialogic Negotiation---to New Meaning3: Language as the Fabric of Conflict---and the Foundation for Dialogic NegotiationPart II: Conflict Stories and the Negotiation of Relationship Dynamics4: We Belong Together but We Still Have Conflict: Negotiating Synchronicity in Relationships5: Where Do We Go From Here? Negotiating Through---and Learning From---Crossroads Moments in RelationshipsPart III: Stories and the Psychodynamics of Conflict6: What Is This Really About? Working With Displacement in Conflict Communication7: What Do We Represent to Each Other? Understanding Projection and Negotiating ConflictPart IV: Using Story Dynamics to Understand and Negotiate Conflict8: Heroes and Sheroes, Villians, Victims, and Fools: Using Story Archetypes to Understand Conflicts9: Learning to Tell the Next Chapter: Story Archetypes and the Negotiation and Mediation of New Meanings in Conflicts10: Putting It All Together: From an Old Story---to a New Meaning---to a New StoryReferencesIndexAbout the Author