Volume 1, No. 2 – 2000, June

Socio-Psychological Reconstruction—Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods in Psychological Research on Conflict and Peace

Wilhelm Kempf (Constance), Wassilios Baros (Cologne) & Irena Regener (Berlin)

Abstract: The present paper informs about the methodological approach of the Peace Research Group at the University of Constance (Germany) and deals with text-analytical methods in the context of constructive conflict transformation and conflict resolution. Giving priority to the subject matter of conflict research rather than to a specific methodological ideology, this approach aims at the integration of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Accordingly, Socio-Psychological Reconstruction is not to be understood as a special technique of text analysis, but rather as a family of text-analytical methods which are linked to each other by a common theoretical basis and which represent a broad spectrum of methods that range from interpretative to content analytical techniques.

Key words: constructive conflict resolution, priority of subject matter, socio-psychological reconstruction, integration of quantitative and qualitative research, methodologies, text-analytical methods, latent style analysis

This contribution is only available as a full text in the German language. German text

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