WALTON’S MODEL of Third Party Peace Making

Team/Work Group OD interventions

Prepared By

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Manu Melwin JoyAssistant Professor

Ilahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

Third Party Peace Making

• Intermediaries (or "third parties") are people, organizations, or nations who enter a conflict to try to help the parties de-escalate or resolve it.

• Walton has presented a statement of theory and practice for third-party peace making interventions that is important in its own right and important for its role in organization development.

WALTON’S MODEL IS BASED ON FOUR ELEMENTS

• The conflict issues.• Precipitating

circumstances.• Conflict relevant acts.• The consequences of

the conflict.

WALTON’S HAS OUTLINED THE INGREDIENTS OF A PRODUCTIVE CONFRONTATION

• Mutual positive motivation.• Balance of power.• Synchronization of confrontation efforts.• Differentiation and integration of different

phases of the intervention must be well paced.• Conditions that promote openness should be

created.• Reliable communicative signals.• Optimum tension in the situation .