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14 J. Conflict Resol. 1 (1970)

handle is hein.journals/jcfltr14 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial Notes The integration of social-science knowledge is to us a great and continuing need. We be- lieve that this evaluation is shared by many JCR readers and contributors. The article by Raack in this issue, for instance, is representa- tive of the recently growing movement to- ward the integration of history with the other social sciences; we think this integration adds interesting substance to the debate about the scientific relationship between micro- and macro-history. Liischen suggests a meaning- ful conceptual connection between the neat- ness of game theory and the sociological complexities of real games. In this issue as in most other issues of JCR, the particular combination of articles is a product of the timing of manuscript submis- sion and processing rather than of efforts to group articles by topic and approach. The general phenomenon of conflict does always provide a unifying theme. From time to time, however, we expect to be able to call attention to some more specific problem shared by two or more articles in the same issue-or, for a similar purpose, to draw together several articles appearing in different issues. A perpetual tension between the essential scientific processes of analysis and synthesis is, no doubt, one of the major pains in the painful task of integrating knowledge about social conflict. Simmel, Coser, Bernard, and a number of other analysts have offered useful identifications and classifications of the ele- ments of conflict, including distinctions be- tween cognitive conflicts and conflicts of interest, and distinctions among conflict, competition, and cooperation. In this issue Glenn and his colleagues conceptualize a pure distinction between conflicts of under- standing and conflicts of interest, while making it clear that both elements can well be present in a real episode. Liischen's treat- ment shows elements of conflict, competition, and cooperation operating together in a sport contest. We confront the problem of finding out how these conceptually distinct elements interact-or at least coexist-in vivo. As it happens, or perhaps for a more sys- tematic reason involving the nature of con- flict, all four articles in the first section of this issue demonstrate another problem of analysis and synthesis. It has to do with the internality and externality of social conflict (1) according to various socially- determined boundaries of groups, of organi- zations, and of states, and (2) according to the way people view their antagonists as psycho- logically inside or outside in a particular conflict. The first distinction can be seen as relatively stable because it rests on social con- ventions. By contrast, people may in fact be able to shift their perceptions of the insideness or outsideness of a given antagonist quite rapidly as the perceived arena of conflict shifts. Intuitively it seems that the choice by a protagonist among possible modes of con- ducting a conflict might depend to some extent on these two distinctions. Mitchell's questions are aimed basically at the proposition that international integration

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