De-escalation

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De-escalation is the process in which conflicts decrease in severity or size over time, the opposite of conflict escalation. It may also refer to approaches in conflict resolution. People may become committed to behaviors that tend to escalate conflict, so specific measures must be taken to avoid such escalation. De-escalation can be modeled with game theory.^[1]