Abstract

Agent-based modelling has recently developed as an important approach to understanding the collective behaviour of individuals interacting, especially in organised and disorganised groups such as organisations, markets or crowds. It has been used as the basis of simulations to explore the dynamics of such systems, and so to predict the implications of deliberate interventions or chance events.
However, agent-based models, which represent in an explicit manner the responses of individual decision-makers to the actions of others, can only be as good as the models of human behaviour upon which they are founded. This paper argues that the theory of dramatic resolution provided by drama theory provides suitable underpinning for this aspect of agent-based modelling and indicates how, through simulation, characteristic patterns of confrontation management could be exposed and assessed.
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Одной из наиболее заметных тенденций в общей картине теоретических подходов к изучению конфликта в последнее десятилетие является увеличивающееся число исследователей, критически атакующих концепцию «разрешения конфликта» и склоняющихся к пониманию конфликта как феномена, непрерывно изменяющегося, превращающегося (трансформирующегося) во что-то еще, переходящего из одного состояния в другое. Принципиальным образом такая постановка вопроса была осуществлена еще Г. Зиммелем и Л. Козером. Однако попытки развернутой концептуализации такого понимания особенно интенсивно стали осуществляться лишь в последнее время.

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Сайт Роберта Бейкала (Robert Bacal) предлагает большое количество находящихся в свободном доступе разнообразных статей, посвященных вопросам управления конфликтом в семье и на работе: «Welcome to the conflict help center. This site emerged out of my need to find high quality resources on various aspects of conflict management and resolution, either at work or in the family. After collecting all kinds of conflict related materials, I decided to make it all available on the web, free of charge. Bacal & Associates provides learning resources to help people communicate and get along better; training seminars, helpcards, and books. In addition to the material available on this site, you might want to check out my books published by McGraw-Hill and Alpha Publishing, available through your local book stores or through amazon.com. (more...)

Здесь в формате полнотекстовых статей можно найти интересный материал о конфликтах в сфере образования и воспитания. About the Campus Conflict Resolution Resources Project The primary objective of the Campus Conflict Resolution Resources project (Campus-adr.org) is to significantly increase administrator, faculty, staff and student awareness of, access to, and use of conflict resolution information specifically tailored to the higher education context. The project came into being thanks to seed funds from the Conflict Resolution Information Source project followed by a major 3-year grant from the federal Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Wayne State University's former College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs administered the $364,000 3-year FIPSE grant, which began October 1, 2000. Bill Warters continues to serve as the Program's Director. Core staff for the 2002-2003 academic year included Trevor Richards (Program Manager), Samantha Spitzer (Associate Editor, Conflict Management in Higher Education Report), Marie Colombo (Lead Evaluator), and Paul A. Saba (Graduate Assistant).

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