I am really interested in looking at miscommunication as a theory. I think this is because in my mind I can make it work for (almost) any problem as a HUGE influence on the outcome. Even in a war I think many times what the real cause and what the perceived cause is can be different. If people took the time to sit down and think about what really is the problem and talked about the issue before making assumptions and fighting... a lot of violence could have been avoided. In my life I have plenty of conflict and I think conflict can be functional... AS LONG AS WE DEAL WITH IT PROPERLY. Avoiding the conflict, or fighting about the conflict is never good. But a few days ago Haldis and I were discussing Invisible children; we each had a different view on what a practical solution would be, and we did not agree. But once we talked it through (for a long time) we figured out that a mix of our ideas was better than either idea individually. So conflict was functional, but it was resolved via communication. We talked about it in class today, but I am still struggling to see a large enough difference between Basic Human Needs and Social Identity Theory to classify them as two separate theories. (I'll do some more personal research on those.)