Volume 12 (2023), Edition 2

This case description is based on a shareholder dispute that broke out between four siblings in the second generation. One of the two sons wanted to leave the company and, in the opinion of the other siblings, endangered its continued existence with...

A law firm consisting of 10 lawyers felt under threat by the secession of its younger members. The groundwork for further cohesion within the firm was achieved during a two-day mediation workshop, where both sides, younger and older members, were...

This is a description of a mediation based on Nonviolent Communication. (NVC). The case involves a conflict between two shareholders of a planning office (civil law partnership). In total, 13 mediation sessions took place over a period of 9 months....

This article offers a detailed description of a mediation that was conducted using the transformative approach to practice. The case involves three co-workers who manage a mid-size organization and have different ideas about the overall goals of the...

In the previous part of the paper (KonfliktDynamik, issue 1/2023), a typology of forces threatening cohesion in entrepreneurial families was presented. This second part focuses on the subset of separation forces. These were characterized above in...

Political decision-makers in democracies need to justify their actions and decisions well and explain them in a comprehensible way if they want to maintain and strengthen citizens’ acceptance, political support, identification and participation....

Common sense psychology, characterized by »psychological laymen«, among other things, strives to explain and anticipate interpersonal conflicts. Communication and conflict psychology as a science, on the other hand, provides profound empirical...

How can debates on social media evolve to be more constructive, respectful, and inclusive? This article attempts to answer this question from a journalistic perspective. Drawing on Habermas’ (1995[1981]) concept of deliberation from the theory of...