The purpose of this E-tivity:
This E-tivity aims to help you contextualize the concept of conflict and evaluate your experience in conflict resolution. This is the important step required to understand the conflict in practical views prior to the analysis and understanding of the literatures about conflict resolution.
Description of the activity:
The conflict happen in human being any time in life. If I can say all creature in this world live in conflict every day. Finding food and other basic for suverving Purchasing degrees, developing projects, travelling for distance, searching job,....So for you, how can you describe conflict?
- What is conflict to you?
- What does it mean if you say that people are in conflict?
- Is a conflict something bad or negative? I want to ask if conflict affect people in negative way such as causing stress and depression, leading to any kind of hurt and violence, or other serious emotional and physical disorders or it can be some thing generous to people?
- Can people involved in big conflicts cases live together in peace? If yes why do think so? If not why do think so?
- Then, try to reflect to an experience which you have faced a conflict with your colleagues, friends or family member and the conflict affected your emotions much worse. Try to identify what caused the conflict at the time, some behavior in the conflict that affected your emotional. Try to note down your feeling you have had at that time, and then try to explain how you resolved that conflict. Which approach or strategy you used? Was any anybody outside involved? If so which role played by that person in the conflict?
- What resulted from that conflict? Are you still having strong relationship or your relationship have been destroyed?
- Why do you think has generated that results? The conflict itself or personal emotions and behavior of one of you or of both?
Try to evaluate yourself when you were dealing with that conflict and document your SWOT as exhibited in that conflict resolution;
- What were the Strengths you have exhibited?
- What were the Weaknesses you have exhibited?
- What were the Opportunities you identified while managing that conflict?
- What were the threats you faced while managing that conflict?
After answering those questions, you are requested to submit your file in this forum for peer review; Your colleagues in group will see your post and comment on it.
You are requested also to comment on each post of your colleagues in group and the comments to your colleagues should address the positive points, the negative points and recommendations for improvements
You will not be allowed to access the next activities and resources if you do not complete this E-tivity and to complete it you are requested to post your file and comment to each post of your colleagues and the comments should follow the criteria given
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