ABSTRACT
This section of the handbook is about enacted conflict. It starts from the logically self-evident, but nevertheless crucial, fact that the actual playing-out of conflict is impossible without people “doing” it. This fact is most obvious when the entirety of a conflict can be played out in just one spate of interaction – who gets the last piece of pie, who wins this football match, whether the accused is guilty. But it should be remembered that even the most protracted and global of conflicts would not be regarded as such if it could not be reduced to likewise recognisable episodes – an article published here, a speech made there, an argument ensuing, a shot fired – all of them by recognisable individual people.
