Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To decrease the size, scope, or intensity of (a war, for example).
- intransitive verb To decrease or diminish in size, scope, or intensity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to reduce in intensity (a crisis or a war).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative spelling of
deescalate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb diminish in size, scope, or intensity
- verb reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
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Examples
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A 2010 study in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin, reported that officers who underwent training on how to handle scenarios involving mentally ill people, were less likely to use unnecessary deadly force and were better equipped to de-escalate a potentially violent situation.
Eliyahu Federman: Police Fatally Shoot Mentally Ill Teen Eliyahu Federman 2012
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A 2010 study in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin, reported that officers who underwent training on how to handle scenarios involving mentally ill people, were less likely to use unnecessary deadly force and were better equipped to de-escalate a potentially violent situation.
Eliyahu Federman: Police Fatally Shoot Mentally Ill Teen Eliyahu Federman 2012
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No meaningful attempt was made to de-escalate the situation.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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They stand in the vanguard of exemplary reconciliation efforts that may, one day, de-escalate the conflict between Christians and Muslims in Africa.
Georgette Bennett, Ph.D.: Interfaith Peace In The Face Of Escalating Christian-Muslim Conflict Ph.D. Georgette Bennett 2012
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No meaningful attempt was made to de-escalate the situation.
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[A bouncer] intervened to de-escalate the altercation and positioned himself between [Shorter], [Nixon] and [Banks].
Report: Banks and friend may have started incident (updated) Cindy Boren 2011
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Mediation requires an entirely different skill set than diplomacy, including the ability to de-escalate high emotions, the ability to remain absolutely neutral and impartial, the ability to recognize and manage cognitive biases that interfere with clear decision-making, the ability to choose which form of negotiation or problem-solving is appropriate in the moment, and a host of other skills that only come with explicit training and deep experience.
Doug Noll: The Failure of Mediation Efforts in Lebanon and Ivory Coast Doug Noll 2011
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Mr. Gorrell said he shared a tent with a homeless man who worked hard for the movement trying to de-escalate conflict, serving food and just helping any way he could.
Protesters, Homeless Share Turf–and Tension Tamara Audi 2011
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It works by interrupting the transmission of conflict: by using credible messengers trained in violence prevention to defuse or de-escalate it.
Rioting is a disease spread from person to person. The key is to stop the infection 2011
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Officers should get crisis intervention training to ensure they can use other avenues to de-escalate tense situations.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
bilby commented on the word de-escalate
I've seen a few citations of the recent quote by the UN, all of them using a hyphenated version.
"Observer mission spokesman Neeraj Singh said Thursday the monitor team is establishing contacts and preparing for a larger mission approved by the U.N. Security Council last week.
'In this process we have a role of de-escalating the situation. We do that - and we did that yesterday in Douma - by maintaining our presence on the ground, patrolling the area for a good number of hours, through our liaison activities.'"
- VOA News, 'UN Seeks to De-Escalate Syria Situation', voanews.com, 28 April 2012.
April 27, 2012