the disciplinary roots of conflict intervention how should theory shape our practice?
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Principle #1 Effects Decreases the likelihood faulty, harmful, or misleading intervention practice. Supports the development of systematic and replicable intervention practice.TRANSCRIPT
The Disciplinary Roots of Conflict Intervention
How Should Theory Shape Our Practice?
Principle # 1
Conflict intervention can and should be rooted in existing theory and research.
Principle #1 Effects
Decreases the likelihood faulty, harmful, or misleading intervention practice.
Supports the development of systematic and replicable intervention practice.
Principle #2
Conflict theory and research is inherently inter-disciplinary.
Principle #2 Effects
Discourages a myopic view of conflict theory and research that restricts practitioners’ intervention options
Theoretical PerspectivesThe Biological
Perspective
The Psychodynamic Perspective
The Social Psychological Perspective
The Interpretive Perspective
The Interactional Perspective
The Structural Perspective
The Critical Perspective
Principle #3 Specific insights from theory and research offer options for intervention but do not dictate practitioner choices.
Principle # 3: Effects Deters practitioners from mistaking a
theoretical understanding for a directive about what must be done in intervention practice.
Encourages scholars to acknowledge the values they enact when they move from a research insight to a recommendation for intervention practice.
Principle #4
Ideological commitments shape practitioners’ decisions about how theory/research is used in conflict intervention.
Principle#4: EffectsDiscourages Ideological Promiscuity
Espouse party-driven (bottom-up) commitments but enact intervener-driven (top-down) intervention practices
Fail to acknowledge that all intervention skills are
linked to ideological purpose
Abandon the valued uniqueness of intervention practices
Ideological Beliefs and Conflict Intervention Practice
Assumptions about Human Nature
Assumptions about the Nature of Conflict
Assumptions about What Productive Conflict Is
Assumptions about the Role of Social Institutions in Conflict Intervention
Holding the Conflict Field Accountable
√ Linking Theory to Practice
√ Understanding the inter-disciplinary nature of the field
√ Clarifying ideological commitments that shape the way theory and research are invoked in practice
√ Avoiding ideological promiscuity
