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Wherever one looks, the world appears to struggle with a multitude of turbulent changes and social problems. Political and religious conflicts emerge and ethnic tension erupts into sporadic or prolonged violence. The legal and illegal movement of people, goods and ideas across the globe shake up social orders and provoke insecurity and injustice. We witness discriminatory prejudice against some immigrant populations, while changes in the workplace require employees to negotiate their conflicts of interest with their supervisors and colleagues on an almost day-to-day basis.Citizens, policy makers, social workers, schoolteachers, and politicians wrestle with these problems. Some gravitate towards prevention and suppression, increasing control and attempts at containment; others choose to mediate conflict, bringing rival groups together, building and exploiting common ground. But what strategies work, and when? How do social systems benefit from conflict, learn from debate and use it to strengthen social bonds? Do different types of conflict require different strategies, and do groups with different cultural background require different approaches? What do we know about conflict, about possible ways to manage it, about what happens if we try to suppress it? Do different actors interpret conflict issues differently, and what symbols and rituals are used to give meaning to conflict? And what causes conflict to escalate, what dynamic and longitudinal characteristics can we identify and use when we need to intervene and call a halt to violence and aggression? These and related questions have been the focus of attention in many different scientific disciplines, yet rarely have they been connected to each other. In Intergroup Competition and Conflict, Carsten de Dreu brings together twelve overviews of research into social conflict to connect and integrate existing insights and analyses of conflict and conflict-related phenomena with evidence-based interventions in conflict situations. The chapters are written by renowned conflict scholars from a variety of disciplines within the social and behavioral sciences, including social and organizational psychology, management and economics, sociology, law, and international relations/political science. Together they provide a uniquely interdisciplinary and invaluable survey of the field of social conflict.

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1. Intergroup Conflict and Negotiating Settlement, Carsten K.W. De Dreu, Hillie Aaldering, and Ozum Saygi 2. How values change a conflict, Fieke Harinck and Naomi Ellemers 3. Humiliation in conflict ? underlying processes and effects on human thought and behaviour, Kai J. Jonas, Marte Otten and Bertjan Doosje 4. Minority identity and host national identification among immigrants, Maykel Verkuyten and Borja Martinovic 5. Ethnic diversity and dimensions of in-group solidarity, overview of insights into empirical relationships in Europe, Maurice Gesthuizen, Michael Savelkoul, and Peer Scheepers 6. Escalation and de-escalation of intergroup conflict: The role of communication within and between groups Tom Postmes, Ernestine H. Gordijn, Martijn van Zomeren, Hedy Greijdanus, Bart de Vos, Susanne Tauber, and Elanor Kamans 7. Contagious conflict: Spill-over effects of labor conflict between and with-in organizations Agnes Akkerman, Rene Torenvlied, Alex Lehr, and Kirsten Thommes 8. Human-rights Promotion, the Media and Peacemaking in Africa Brian Burgoon, Andrea Ruggeri, and Ram Manikkalingam 9. New lines of conflict: European integration and immigration, Wouter van der Brug, Daphne van der Pas, Marc van de Wardt, Marijn van Klingeren, Claes de Vreese, Sarah de Lange, Catherine de Vries, Hajo Boomgaarden and Rens Vliegenthart 10. By-stander Conflict: Training Interventions for Teams in High-Stake Professions, Evangelia Demerouti, Kim J. P. M. van Erp, Josette M. P. Gevers, and Sonja Rispens

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