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Some time ago in the garden of a friend’s house, my 5-year-old son and his chum were struggling over possession of a water hose. (They were in conflict.) Each wanted to use it first to water the garden. (They had a competitive orientation.) Each was trying to tug it away from the other, and both were crying. Each was very frustrated, and neither was able to use the hose to sprinkle the flowers as he had desired. After reaching a deadlock in this tug-of-war, they began to punch one another and call each other names. As a result of their competitive approach, the conflict took a destructive course for both of them—producing frustration, crying, and violence.
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This text was first published as: “Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict”, in: Peter T. Coleman, Morton Deutsch and Eric C. Marcus (Eds.) The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (3rd Edition). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014). Permission to republish this text was granted by Brian Collins, Permissions Assistant Wiley, Chichester, UK on 12 November 2014.
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Deutsch, M. (2015). Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict. In: Morton Deutsch: A Pioneer in Developing Peace Psychology. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15440-4_3
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