The Institutionalization of Conflict Resolution
Kenneth Boulding, Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan studied conflict research with an emphasis on the General Systems Theory. The General Systems Theory sought to seek the structural uniformities between physical, biological, psychologi
In 1954 Boulding and other academics formed the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Herbert Kelman, Social Psychologist and member of the group at Stanford, developed most of the research for the Michigan Center for Conflict Resolution. Kelman contacted the London group of John Burton and his ideas on problem-solving.
Kelman held a series of 3 workshops, one of which dealt with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at Harvard. He aimed at incorporating interpersonal and sociopolitical perspectives in reframing the parties perceptions of the conflict and its possible resolu