EDUC 746 Personal Conflict Project: Part 1 – Identifying the Dispute Assignment Instructions

Overview

Throughout this course you will be introduced to different theories, strategies, and skills necessary for conflict resolution. This theoretical underpinning is necessary before you can practically apply any of the concepts you learn in this course. This project will allow you to start to identify a current personal conflict and attempt conflict resolution strategies and reconciliation based on the theories, strategies and skills you encounter. This project has three parts: Part 1 – Identifying the Dispute, Part 2 – Reconciliation Plan, and Part 3 – Reflection.

Instructions

In order to begin this project, you must clearly identify a personal conflict. Due to the sensitive nature of this assignment, full confidentiality will be maintained.

Copy and paste the following questions into a Word document and provide at least a one paragraph response to each question:

1. Briefly summarize your dispute as you perceive it, placing events in chronological order. Include what you have done to resolve the dispute.

2. Have you been striving earnestly to resolve this dispute or giving only partial efforts to reconcile?

3. What questions, doubts, or fears do you have because of this dispute?

4. Have you been looking at this dispute as something that happened by chance, as something done to you by someone else, or as something that God allowed in your life for a specific purpose?

5. Using what you currently know about conflict resolution, which response to conflict have you been using to resolve the dispute?

This assignment should be between 2 – 4 pages in length and each paragraph should be a minimum of five sentences. No title page, abstract, or reference section is necessary unless you use citations. If you use any citations, you must properly cite according to current APA standards and include a reference section.

Prior to completing Part 2 – Reconciliation Plan, you must plan a meeting with the purpose of reconciling this dispute. You should identify at least two strategies you plan to use during this reconciliation and provide a thorough explanation of the steps you plan to resolve the conflict based on what you have learned and researched in this course.