Conclusion: onward to recreating

This review is intended as an incitation to more work. Conflict management and resolution have merged as a vigorous field at the crossroads of political science, sociology, economics, and history over the past century, and today it faces the biggest challenge of its life. The very basis of its function, the existence of a world order, has been sundered as international relations slide toward entropy. A Realist approach, quite at home with the new anarchy, seeks more than ever to describe its function. Conflict management and resolution seeks to awake realistic creativity and examine present characteristics and future possibilities in order to develop a more positive evolution.