Editor's Introduction

• Date: 01 December 2019
• Published date: 01 December 2019
• Author: Susan S. Raines
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/crq.21272

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

Reading our opening article by Charkoudian, Eisenberg and Walter will change the strategies

you use to help parties resolve conflict. Full disclosure—I assigned it as required reading to my

graduate students two months ago! Being Editor has its advantages. Debates about the use of

caucus have raged for years, but this is the first rigorous, empirical study to correlate its use

with important case variables such as trust between the parties, settlement and the extent to

which agreements stick. Please read it, share it with others, and use it to improve your work.

In their contribution Hakvoort, Lindahl and LundstrÖm catalog and analyze the literature

on conflict resolution in schools, providing a useful article for both practitioners and

researchers seeking to digest a vast and important body of work. This is a wonderful follow up

to CRQ's recent colloquy on restorative justice in schools (volume 36 number 3).

The article by Krishnakumar, Perera, Hopkins and Robinson confirms the importance

of emotional intelligence (EI) in the service of workplace conflict resolution. Their article delin-

eates the linkages between EI and common skills used to successfully navigate workplace

relationships while avoiding or resolving conflict effectively.

Discrimination causes conflict, creating downward spirals for entire communities. Duncan

and Farhat build upon previous work to analyze investment and trade as mitigating steps to

reduce discrimination. Their important and timely findings point us in important directions for

future public policies aimed at reducing discrimination and conflict.

Last but not least, Palao-Mendizabal, Holmes, Callenes, and Cardenas give us a glimpse into

the future of conflict mapping through their examination of exploratory spatial analysis to help

peacemakers better identify hot spots that predict the escalation of violent conflict.

Taken together, each article makes a unique contribution to our ability to explain, predict,

prevent and intervene in conflicts from courts to workplaces and even battlefields.

Happy Reading!

Susan S. Raines, PhD.

Editor-in-Chief.

DOI: 10.1002/crq.21272

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