Abstract
The preceding chapters have established the rationale for reframing the essential features of conflict in terms of the principles, metaphors, and methods of dynamical systems. As emphasized in Chap. 2, however, this reframing would be impossible without the accumulated insights and evidence provided by the study of peace and conflict and by the principles of interpersonal and intergroup experience established in social psychology. It is through the interaction of these elements—peace and conflict studies, social psychology, and dynamical systems—that the emergence of a dynamical perspective on conflict can even be envisioned, let alone developed and verified. Our aim in this chapter is to provide a broad outline of this emergent product.
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Vallacher, R.R. et al. (2013). Foundations: The Dynamical Perspective on Social Processes. In: Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35280-5_3
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