Navigating High Conflict Situations: Strategies for Escaping and Resolving Difficult Interactions

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United States on Sep 25, 2023

Kristin: A lot of time spent telling stories of how people got into conflict but could have delved a little deeper in how to get out. overall though I recommend, as a good starting point to learn about this topic.

United States on Sep 03, 2023

Shashi Kant Sharma: This book gives very good insights into good, low as well as high conflicts. It gives you ways to identify conflicts within you and around your community. And ways to get out of these conflicts and how to stay out of them.

This book will be useful to anyone who wants to improve themselves.

India on Apr 06, 2023

Vinodd Desai: I liked book

India on Feb 24, 2023

T satyanarayana: Conflict management is an art,to get the skill we need to involve into conflict.Before taking any action against any person we need understand the others feelings and listen their points that is the main concept of this writer best.It is easy to write non fiction and get close to the readers hearts but author succeeded in that aspect.

India on Nov 17, 2022

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India on Sep 24, 2022

Tom Cat: This fascinating book clarifies some of the problems with conflict that we often face, and get trapped in, in personal and political spheres. As the writer is a journalist, the strength of the book is in its storytelling. Ripley, partly inspired by family drama she witnessed growing up, has spent her career reporting on serious conflicts around the world, so she has learned how to probe her subjects and readily make insightful connections based on her observations. Across a range of examples, Ripley makes a convincing case that while conflict is necessary and good, we should be on guard for the signs of "high conflict" where each side digs into its position. It is especially difficult, her examples strongly suggest, to see when we, ourselves, are dug into an unreasonable position, especially when the other side is too. It is very hard to find the humility and confidence to be the first to blink.

Some aspects of the book are underdeveloped, while at other points I felt Ripley was too ready to accept her subjects' narratives at face value. I don't understand why she chose to begin the book with the story of Mark Lynas, an environmentalist who "converted" from being a violent...

United States on Jul 26, 2022

Thomas Wikman: “Good conflict” is healthy conflict in which questions get asked, in which there is curiosity and movement in opinions. “High conflict” on the other hand is what happens when conflict devolves into a good versus evil kind of feud. The conflict takes on its own life and draws us in like a tar pit.

The book gives many examples of high conflict and explains how they came to be; the Hatfield’s and the McCoy, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, our current political division, couples getting divorced, gang warfare, guerilla warfare, civil war, etc. The book focuses much attention on Gary, a friendly lawyer who rather solves conflict than benefit from it, as is typically a lawyer’s job. Gary runs for a local office and wins but because he is thinking a little bit too highly about himself and his abilities he by mistake excludes some really knowledgeable, willing and helpful people from what he refers to as “the old guard”, which leads to a high conflict that he himself created. However, in the end he becomes part of the solution. It is a good story.

The author makes a lot of interesting observations such as; we have group belongings, we form factions, we need...

United States on Jun 19, 2021

E. Coleman: This book is getting well reviewed in the USA...and is starting to here in the UK. I only knew about it as someone I respect in a zoom group I am part of was going to read it, and recommended we might too. So I am.

It takes you through true conflict stories, and how they are resolved. If you like the stories that is a bonus. It also talks a little about the Baha'i Faith which the author had not come across before...she talks about it as to her it seemed to offer an excellent way to consult and to elect governing bodies.

I am a Bahai...I totally agree with her....but I would I guess! Reading the stories in the book I find alot of the common place attitudes highlighted alien to me (I find myself thinking ...you can't do that!)....but in part this is because I have been a Bahai for over 30 years now. This morning I was in the last section of a zoom about our way of consulting....half those there were not Bahai's. Can I suggest anyone that would like to know more about this to phone up their local Bahais and ask if they know of anyone conducting Ruhi Book10 Unit 2 on Consultation. We welcome a broad range of beliefs at our gatherings...and as this one is about...

United Kingdom on Jun 01, 2021