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Telling stories: a metagame description of a conflict

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This paper describes the use of metagame analysis to describe and explore a conflict situation. The analysis was carried out by the author, who was associated with one of the parties in the conflict, for his own benefit. A full description of the analysis is provided. A particular characteristic of the situation was that it was not possible to specify preferences for scenarios for any of the actors with a reasonable degree of confidence. This made the standard metagame analysis approach unworkable, and an alternative approach, involving the development of stories describing a variety of possible future events, was used instead.

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  • Klein, Jonathan H., 2000. "Telling stories: a metagame description of a conflict," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 28(1), pages 1-15, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jomega:v:28:y:2000:i:1:p:1-15
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    1. Stokes, Nigel W & Hipel, Keith W, 1983. "Conflict analysis of an export credit trade dispute," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 11(4), pages 365-376.
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    3. Bryant, J., 1997. "The plot thickens: Understanding interaction through the metaphor of drama," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 25(3), pages 255-266, June.
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