Modelling Alternative Realities in Conflict and Negotiation

Abstract

A framework is presented which provides a means of representing and relating the subjective perceptions of actors involved in a conflict or negotiation. Use is made of the method of cognitive mapping in setting down the components of a hierarchy of individual perceptions of a situation, and a formal definition of this overall structure, termed a hypermap, is given in the Appendix. A number of illustrative examples are used to demonstrate the approach and to indicate its potential, and some of its implications in practical applications are considered.

Keywords:

• conflict
• cognitive pictures
• hypermaps
• hypergames

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Erratum: Modelling Alternative Realities in Conflict and Negotiation