Introduction to the Special Issue on Culture, Communication, and Conflict Management

2021/01/04 by Adair, Wendi

paper · doi:10.34891/tdf0-4e16

Abstract

This special issue includes four articles addressing communication challenges inherent in international and cross-cultural conflict management. The authors treat culture, defined broadly as a social group with shared values and norms that are reinforced and perpetuated through the group’s institutions, as geopolitical boundaries or national identification. Communication is operationalized through negotiation behaviors, dialogic competencies, conflict communication strategies, and communication bullying. Methods include both qualitative and quantitative, with two papers testing conceptual models of conflict management within the global social, cultural, and economic landscape. Together, this set of papers offers novel contributions and directions for future research on micro (e.g., partner’s cultural values (Liu, 2018); reflexivity (Broome et al., 2019)), meso (e.g., family obligations (Tommy & Oetzel, 2018)), and macro (e.g., global positioning (Van de Vliert & Conway, 2018); legal constraints (Tommy & Oetzel, 2018)) influences on cross-cultural conflict management, conflict cultures, and effective intercultural communication. Keywords culture, communication, negotiation, conflict management

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