How do you handle conflicts that come up in your life?. What aspects of conflict are difficult for you? And how can you create peace when conflict is a constant in all our lives?

Here are some resources to help learn about reactions to conflict, and develop skills with different approaches to it.

This 25 minute video, An Introduction to Conflict, features college student actors and explores five different styles people use to handle conflict: avoidance, competition, accommodation, compromise, and collaboration.

Here’s a very short slide presentation of conflict styles (from Riverhouse Press for Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory).

Use a quiz to learn about your style

• Understand your conflict management style (download this 2-page pdf document and score by hand).
• Assess your style managing conflicts at work. (This is an online quiz using Flash).

Other resources

• Here is a great set of videos from the Public Conversations Project, starting with “why is it so difficult for us – as human beings – to deal with our differences?”