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Context and Its Importance

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Conflict Resolution and its Context

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Contextual factors allow us to fully grasp an event, situation, communication process or action. Frequently, the context in which an event takes place provides more valuable information than the event itself. This chapter addresses context and its importance from a general perspective and in the particular domain of conflict resolution. It describes many different contextual dimensions such as the verbal, social or cultural, pointing out the importance of each one to understand individuals’ actions. It then moves on to the address the recent field of Context-aware Computing: the vision of computers that are sensible to contextual cues, harness it and use such information to provide better services. Several context-aware solutions are described in this chapter that point out the range of application domains. However, no such application exists in the domain of conflict resolution. While the next chapters are dedicated do describing the components of such an application, this chapter ends with the enumeration of several contextual dimensions that are of relevance to fully describe a conflict and its resolution process.

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    Davide Carneiro, Paulo Novais & José Neves

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Carneiro, D., Novais, P., Neves, J. (2014). Context and Its Importance. In: Conflict Resolution and its Context. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06239-6_5

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