After months of tension, military and political cooperation between Russia and the NATO resumed. “This is a new start for relations between Russia and NATO,” said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Stein Meier. He hoped that the new cooperation will also cover the issues in the Middle East and the disarmament of nuclear and conventional weapons.
“We [...]

It is but logical to think that man’s evolutionary history has given rise to a definitive evolutionary form of social behavior. According to Samuel Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, the aspect of altruism may have likewise sprung from the eons of tribal warfare as the concept and act of personal sacrifice has become a [...]

There are some conflict resolution strategies that work for individual teams. There is one common strategy that runs through all these, though, and that is dialogue. A cooperative problem-solving style also enables people to work together. This cooperation not only finishes the work but also bolsters camaraderie and team spirit.
Some employ the strategy of compromise. [...]

Conflict resolution, a resultant and logical step to address the inescapable reality of conflict, is a must to move the team forward. Conflict resolution is a dynamic and pro-active endeavor that serves to find a commonality among the diversity in team membership. If there is no resolution to conflicts, the uniqueness of the individual cannot [...]

Successful victims of conflict fight back even with negative response most of the time. Some responded by being absent often from team activities. The insight is clear. Those who fight back and try to resolve the conflict are members who recognize and confront the conflict issues squarely. In the process, they employ all means possible [...]

Conflict is a logical result of a situation when an individual or sub-group within a larger group feels adversely affected by another individual or sub-group (Wall & Callister, 1995). In groups and organizations, conflict arises over differences in and competition over power levels, scarce resources, the desire to be different rather than converge, responsibility, jurisdiction, [...]

A successful team is the one that manages conflict through conflict resolution strategies that take into consideration the diversity in the membership composition of the team. According to Gountanis (2008), “successful team members can effectively manage conflict.”
The most basic definition of a team is a group that has two or more people who need to [...]

Conflict is a given reality in any organization. So long as there is an organization of human beings, there will always be conflict. This is because any organization has a diversity of individuals. There are Conflict Management Strategies that can be used when in conflict situations.
Some managers use ‘Forcing.’ This seems to augur well with [...]

The U.S. State Department asserts that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will be responsible for every death that will occur after the Khartoum government kicked out foreign aid groups this month.
U.S. diplomats reported that conditions are worsening in the refugee camps that have been accommodating thousands of displaced people from the Darfur region. U.S. and the [...]

The matter of diversity such as gender or ethnic diversity is a palpable reality in any human organization. The group almost always has to deal with cultural differences among its members. Experts argue that in order for management and organizations to benefit from the inescapable certainty of diversity, workgroups must find effective means to integrate [...]