Conflict transformation and management are complex decision processes with extremely high stakes at hand and could greatly benefit from formal approaches to decision support. For this purpose we develop a general framework about how to use problem structuring methods for such purposes. More precisely we show how to transform cognitive maps to value trees in order to promote a more design-oriented approach to decision support aiming at constructing innovative solutions for conflict management purposes. We show that our findings have a much wider validity since they allow to move from a descriptive representation of a problem situation to a more prescriptive one using formal procedures and models.

翻译：冲突转化与管理是具有极高风险的复杂决策过程，而形式化的决策支持方法可对此大有助益。为此，我们构建了一个通用框架，阐述如何运用问题结构化方法服务于此类决策。具体而言，我们展示了如何将认知地图转化为价值树，以促进面向设计的决策支持方法，旨在为冲突管理构建创新解决方案。研究表明，我们的发现具有更广泛的适用性，因其能够通过形式化程序与模型，将问题情境的描述性表征转化为更具规范性的表述。