A Study on the Efficiency of Conflict Early Warning Systems (CEWS) in Managing Conflicts within Business Organizations

The idea of preventing conflict is not new.Attempts to prevent conflicts using Early Warning System are rarely discussed as it is a very recent phenomenon.According to Keyserlink & Kopfmuller, the Concept of Early Warning was developed during the Cold War in the field of National Military Intelligence to increase the capacity of predicting possible (ballistic) attacks (Keyserlingk & Kopfmuller, 2006).The Early Warning System (EWS) typically assists managers in different levels of the organization to prevent or reduce dispute escalating, and are based on networks and open sources for securing information.The study shall discuss to what extent, Conflict Early Warning Systems (CEWS) help to prevent conflicts in business organizations and how could it helps to improve the coordination between the groups of employees in the work environment.