Natural Conflict Resolution

Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book shows, our species relies heavily on cooperation for survival, as do many others-from wolves and dolphins to monkeys and apes. A distinguished group of fifty-two authors, including many of the world's leading experts on human and animal behavior, here review evidence from multiple disciplines on natural conflict resolution and show that there are sound evolutionary reasons for the peacekeeping tendencies they find. This book also addresses the cultural, ecological, cognitive, emotional, and moral perspectives of conflict resolution. It provides the tools and theories that will firmly establish conflict resolution as a field of systematic research.