The Conflict Spiral Model traces how retaliation or protective actions become fresh threats that provoke further escalation. It examines sequences, interpretations, and changing goals to identify possible interruptions, while distinguishing reciprocal processes from unilateral coercion and avoiding the assumption that both parties bear equal responsibility.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.