On Stages of Conflict Escalation - Conflict and Multimodal Communication: Social Research and Machine Intelligence - page 66

Table 3.2 Conditions for communicative conflict in three types of social activities

Political debate Quarrel between neighbors Conflict in a work group

Initial phase No initial unbiased dialog

Latent conflict

Initial friendly dialogue or
latent conflict

Initial dialog more common

Goal Goal to win audience, voters

Not to agree

Goal to win argument over
some practical problem, e.g., a
fence

Goal to carry out a common task,
which all will benefit from

Expected result One party wins One party wins or compromise

or breakdown

One party or the majority takes
over or break up in subgroups,
compromise or breakdown
Task needs to be completed

Audience Studio and TV audience/voters No audience

Or other neighbors

No audience

Leader/mediator Talk show hostIntervention No mediator/chairman

No intervention

No mediator/chairman, except
possible self-selected group
member
No intervention