Part I: The Concept of Positioning.- Positioning and conflict: an introduction.- Intergroup positioning and power.- Liquidating roles and crystallising positions: Investigating the road between role and positioning theory.- Intrapersonal conflict.- Part II: Interpersonal Positioning.- Positioning and conflict involving a person with dementia: A Case Study.- The research planning meeting.- Standing out and blending in: Differentiation and conflict.- The dispute over the fate of Terri Schiavo: A study of positions and social episodes in the formation of identity.- Part III: Intergroup Positioning.- How disadvantaged group members position themselves: When they might appear to work against an improvement in status for their own group. - Wheels within wheels, or triangels within triangels: Time and context in positioning theory.- Positioning and military leadership.- Discursive production of conflict in Rwanda.- Rwandan radio broadcasts and Hutu/Tutsi positioning.- Nuclear positioning and supererogatory duties: The illustrative case of positioning by Iran, the United States, and the European Union.- Conceptual frame for a psychology of nonviolent democratic transitions: Positioning through analytical layers.- Afterword.