Conflict resolution: The methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution.

Often, committed group members attempt to resolve group conflicts by actively communicating information about their conflicting motives or ideologies to the rest of the group, and by engaging in collective negotiation.

  • Cognitive resolution: the way disputants understand and view the conflict, with beliefs and perspectives and understandings and attitudes.
  • Emotional resolution: in the way disputants feel about a conflict, the emotional energy.
  • Behavioural resolution: how one thinks the disputants act, their behaviour.

Ultimately, a wide range of methods and procedures for addressing conflict exist, including but not limited to negotiation, mediation, diplomacy, and creative peacebuilding.