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Amity

Conflict

Negotiation

Mediation

Arbitration

                  Binding arbitration

                  Non-binding arbitration

Game theory*

                  Cooperative game = players are conscious of. attuned to, and willing to adapt to, other players'  behaviors and concerns

                  Non-cooperative game = neither player feels compelled to consider or consult the other players

 

Nash equilibrium = a non-cooperative game in which each player already knows the repertoire of strategies of the others and feels no need to change strategy or make concessions to them.  (stalemate, not a good situation for productive change or progress)

 

3 phases of “waging peace”

1. Recognize the threat of the long-term implications of the conflict

2. Game out all possible outcomes

3. Deploy a complex solution that defuses conflict and broadens amity, diffuses risks

 

Solution = proposal

Complexity

Altruism

Reciprocity

Prestige technology

“ruthless generosity/Potlatch effect”

“Fandango” effect

"Free rider" = term from economics for players who gain inordinate benefits without equitable contribution or sacrifice

Nudge theory

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Zero sum solution

                  There can only be one winner

                  Winner takes all

                  False binary?         

                  Dual choice fallacy?

Complex solution / Non-zero solution

Pareto efficiency

 

 

*From this point to the end of this list, terms are taken from Robert Wright’s Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny  (New York: Pantheon, 2011).