Disentangling approaches to framing in conflict and negotiation research: A meta-paradigmatic perspective

Dewulf, Art; Gray, Barbara; Putnam, Linda L.; Lewicki, Roy J.; Aarts, M.N.C.; Bouwen, René; Woerkum, C.M.J. van

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“…In recent years, a discernable shift toward risk-based framings (DeWulf et al 2007(DeWulf et al , 2009) has become evident in dominant policy narratives around the introduction of GM crops in particular countries and in regional debates on stimulating a new Green Revolution for Africa (Scoones and Thompson 2011). Along with narratives that emphasize ''drought tolerant'' (non-GM, hybrid) and ''water efficient'' (GM) seeds as solutions to problems of hunger (a common narrative widely promoted by the seed industry and others) have come pressures from the international agricultural research community, government, and civil society actors alike, to seriously address the areas of incomplete knowledge surrounding these technologies, their application, and potential impacts.…”

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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

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This article explores the links between agency, institutions, and innovation in navigating shifts and largescale transformations toward global sustainability. Our central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to escape the current lock-in. Large-scale transformations in information technology, nano-and biotechnology, and new energy systems have the potential to significantly improve our lives; but if, in framing them, our globalized society fails to consider the capacity of the biosphere, there is a risk that unsustainable development pathways may be reinforced. Current institutional arrangements, including the lack of incentives for the private sector to innovate for sustainability, and the lags inherent in the path dependent nature of innovation, contribute to lock-in, as does our incapacity to easily grasp the interactions implicit in complex problems, referred to here as the ingenuity gap. Nonetheless, promising social and technical innovations with potential to change unsustainable trajectories need to be nurtured and connected to broad institutional resources and responses. In parallel, institutional entrepreneurs can work to reduce the resilience of dominant institutional systems and position viable shadow alternatives and niche regimes.

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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

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“…Frame and framing concepts are particularly relevant for researchers studying confl ict, negotiation and inter-group interactions (Gray 2003;Dewulf et al 2009). The notion of frame is rooted in cognitive psychology (Bartlett 1932) and anthropology (Bateson 1954).…”

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The discursive construction of conflict in participatory forest management: The case of the Agoua forest restoration in Benin

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The discursive construction of conflict in participatory forest management: the case of the Agoua forest restoration in Benin Idrissou, L.; Aarts, M.N.C.; van Paassen, A.; Leeuwis, C. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. AbstractThe Agoua Forest in Benin was declared a protected area in 1953 and subsequently managed by means of a coercion system, which, however, did not prevent its deforestation. In 2002, a participatory management process was designed to restore this forest. Although the project managers and local communities agreed to a plan at the beginning of the process, the plan was not implemented because confl ict arose in the course of the process. In this paper, an interactional framing approach was used to analyse the emergence of this confl ict, which ended in an impasse. This study showed that the confl ict was constructed and evolved mainly in stakeholders' discourses, even without changes in actual forest management and use. Moreover, it became clear that stakeholders constructed different frames in different conversation contexts: stakeholders, who share a set of perceptions, norms, and expectations as constructed and expressed in their talks (we-groups), constructed stereotypes and stigmas, blaming the other party and presenting themselves as innocent victims. In conversations involving all stakeholders, people did not reveal their real thoughts, either about each other or about the proposals for confl ict resolution. This study shows the relevance and agency of discourse in confl ict, and the importance of the interactional framing approach in understanding participatory management, and confl ict dynamics. It reveals how by means of discourses, farmers in the Agoua Forest succeeded in handling the confl ict, with the effect that little has been done in the project's decision to implement the plan.

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“…A frame is the context through which a person interprets the world, also known as his or her perception, perspective, worldview, mental model, script or schema (Schön and Rein 1994 ;Isendahl et al 2009 ;Dewulf et al 2009 ).…”

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Mechanisms for Inclusive Governance

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Global Issues in Water Policy

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How mechanisms for inclusive governance are understood is built on the framing choices that are made about governance and that which is being governed. This chapter unpacks how governance can be understood and considers different historical and contemporary framings of water governance. A framing of "governance as praxis" is developed as a central element in the chapter. What makes governance inclusive is explored, drawing on theoretical, practical and institutional aspects before elucidating some of the different mechanisms currently used or proposed for creating inclusive water governance (though we argue against praxis based on simple mechanism). Finally, the factors that either constrain or enable inclusive water governance are explored with a focus on systemic concepts of learning and feedback. Keywords Water governance • Participation • Institutional arrangements • Social learning • Adaptive management • Framing Scene SettingWe were invited to address the topic of "mechanisms for inclusive governance". In many ways this is a loaded title as it comprises three terms that cannot be taken for granted: "governance", "inclusive" and "mechanism". For us the pivotal term is governance which, as a contested concept, requires an appreciation of how it might be framed and the possible implications of a given framing choice. Expressed in this way, it is also necessary that we say what we mean by "framing" and "framing choice". In turn, our title leaves open, and thus potentially ambiguous, the question of what is being governed -a river, a catchment, a complex adaptive system, etc.

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Disentangling approaches to framing in conflict and negotiation research: A meta-paradigmatic perspective

Cited by 380 publications

References 90 publications

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

The discursive construction of conflict in participatory forest management: The case of the Agoua forest restoration in Benin

Mechanisms for Inclusive Governance

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