Conflict Talk and Narrative

Abstract

Conflict is seen disrupting and even threatening human beings, physically or mentally. However, conflict is also considered a useful way to build people‟s identity and to acquire skill in negotiation. To get insight those effects, recognising the structure of conflict is crucial. In this paper, I am examining of how conflict is enacted, escalated, and terminated as well as the role of narrative in conflict. The study of conflict talk is important particularly for stake holders, as it will give better understanding to possibly reduce the dangerous risk of conflict talk and to create such a programme in conflict resolution