ABSTRACT
This first section is designed to not only preview the forthcoming meta-analyses on managing interpersonal conflict but to describe also the variety of theoretical perspectives, scholars and researchers have chosen to frame how we enact conflict across both private and public contexts. For the past decade, we have been told that conflict is persuasive and has become big business for consultants, scholars, researchers and entrepreneurs (Mayer, 2009). Most of the contributors in this volume approach conflict from a relational perspective and view disputants that are caught many times in destructive conflict cycles.
