Munich Massacre Research Paper

The so-called Munich Massacre took place in the city of Munich on September 5, 1972, during the XX edition of the Summer Olympic Games. That day, a group of Palestinian terrorists called Black September took as hostages eleven of the twenty members of Israel's Olympic team.
This situation is consider as dispute because was a repercussion of a broader conflict, the war between Palestinians and Israelis; the differences in religion, believes and culture were the main causes of this dispute. This dispute was a violent, real, destructive, retributive, realistic, intergroup and interests’ conflict with ideological and historical causes and a parochial scope.
This whole situation had an intractable character because the parties refused to negotiate. It had different stages: Latent Conflict, since the biblical time with the searching of Holy land; Emergence and Escalation, after the kidnapping everything just started to escalate in a higher level of intensity; Stalemate, neither of them wanted to back out and let the other win; and the stages of de-escalation, dispute settlement, post-conflict peace-building and reconciliation can’t be identified yet.
The conflict reached the escalated form with the increase of the intensity, the change from light tactics to heavy tactics with the use of weapons, the kidnapping and
It was a predominantly competitive because the Palestinians and Israelis had a high concern for themselves and low concern for the others. The main type of power that was used was the coercive power because they were trying to pass over the other part. In this case there wasn’t any kind of trust between the parties, because the main conflict Palestinian-Israeli didn’t allow them to build a trust relationship. This negotiation was a domination, because the Palestine used the threat, and the psychological pressure in order to achieve their