Graduated Reciprocation in Tension-Reduction (GRIT) is a strategy for interrupting escalation through limited, visible conciliatory steps taken without first demanding a matching concession. The initiator explains its intent, keeps essential protections, and decides each next step according to the other side’s observed response.
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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
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.