Revisiting barriers to conflict resolution: Perspectives on power, relationships, and application to practice

Abstract

This article introduces the special issue of Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict entitled “Revisiting barriers to conflict resolution: Perspectives on power, relationships, and application to practice”. We introduce the concepts and overarching themes to be addressed in the special issue, and provide an overview of the articles and contributors to the issue. In addition, we trace the intellectual roots of the barriers to conflict research agenda to the founding scholars at the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN), and discuss the contributions of the participating scholars in this special issue to developing the barriers research agenda.