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A factual account provides no clear pattern concerning conflict resolution & instigation through sport. Both positions prevail in the social-psychological literature on sport & aggression, while anthropological testing of preliterate societies shows combative sport to be related to warlikeness. Model & conceptual implications are discussed. A stronger concern for sociological analysis will provide a better understanding of the sport contest in its dialectical structure & its sociocultural as well as organizational context. Simple notions of causality & insights from ethology & psychology are insufficient for the analysis of a predominately structural problem of conflict in the sport contest. 1 Table, 2 Photographs, 1 Illustration. AA.

Conflict in primate society / S.L. Washburn -- Resolution of social conflict in animals and man / M.R.A. Chance -- Role of conflict in human evolution -- Conflict, dominance and exploitation in human systems of social segregation : some theoretical perspectives from the study of personality in culture / George De Vos -- Intra-personal conflict and the authoritarian character / H.V. Dicks -- The authoritarian character in war -- Conflict in formal organizations / J.A.A. van Doorn -- Patterns of conflict in social groups -- Conflict in cities / Ruth Glass -- Role of cities in social unrest -- Nationalism as a source of aggression / Z. Barbu -- Internal conflict and overt aggression -- Conflict and leadership : the process of decision and the nature of authority / Harold D. Lasswell -- Objective appraisal of conflict -- Conflict management as a learning process / K.E. Boulding -- Regulation of conflict -- Models of conflict : cataclysmic and strategic / Anatol Rapoport -- Strategic thinking and state interests -- Power and communication in international society / Karl W. Deutsch -- Compliance in modern society -- The role of law in conflict resolution / B.V.A. Röling -- External and internal sources of international tension / Karol Lapter -- Conflict as a function of change / J.W. Burton -- International aspects of conflict.

Against the illustrative background of the settlement ending the civil war in the Sudan, the functional/dysfunctional & cost/benefit theories of conflict are examined. The three levels at which conflicts should be evaluated (parties, factions within parties, & overall system) have often been confused. Various kinds of costs & benefits of engaging & then succeeding in a conflict are considered, ranging from economic & political to psychological, & including deferred costs & benefits. Rather than functionality, cost evaluation based on the consideration: 'functional for whom & over what period of time?' should be carried out. Since any efforts to resolve a conflict should take into account the benefits that some may achieve by active participation & role playing, any solution should find some compensation for such benefits. Modified HA.