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Editor's Note: Burton and Sandole's response immediately follows this article.
Kevin Avruch andPeter W. Black are both Associate Professors of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, and members of the Center for Conflict Resolution, at George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Virginia 22030.
We wish to thank our fellow members of the Theory Development Seminar in the Center for Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. It is out of the ongoing discussions of this group that this present essay has grown, and we are grateful. In particular we wish to acknowledge Dennis Sandole, who chairs the seminar, and John Burton, who by his example has set its high standards of rigorous yet fair-minded debate.
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Avruch, K., Black, P.W. A generic theory of conflict resolution: A critique. Negot J 3, 87–96 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00999036
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