ABSTRACT
Conflict shows itself to the careful observer as a multifaceted process. Conflicts concerning the oceans and seabed, environmental pollution, resource utilization, and political, racial, and cultural self-determination will require thousands of skilled intervenors. Conflict over resource control will increasingly separate the rich from the poor nations, and the rich from the poor within nations. The way in which university students around the world are currently building a movement of generally peaceful protest against the proliferation of nuclear weapons and nuclear power suggests that nonviolent action is becoming institutionalized as a conflict management technique. One could argue convincingly that had students in the 1960s been trained in both negotiation and nonviolent resistance, the changes sought by student protesters could have been achieved with less rancor and bloodshed. Keeping conflict relatively nonviolent and within reasonable bounds is of paramount concern in social relations.
