GUEST EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: BEYOND THREATS AND PROMISES.

The article interprets a paper, "The Role of Communication in the Process of Conflict," presented in a seminar. The most common communication variable treated by the authors represented here is, as it has been among conflict scholars for more than two decades, simple opportunity to communicate, rather than form and function of specific communicative behavior. But the situation is promising. Most authors explicate communicative implications of their results, and one might hope that they will soon test those implications. A few studies more explicitly testing hypotheses about communication and conflict have been done but are not yet ready for publication.