Changing Patterns of Conflict Management and Aggression among Inuit Youth in the Canadian Arctic: Longitudinal

Over the past few decades, significant changes have occurred in the conflict management slrategies of the Inuit. These changes have been initialed by a number of acculturative factors, including population concentration and growth, increased economic security, increased alcohol consumption and value changes resulting from exposure to southern mass media. As Inuit communities become larger and face Significant problems of social control, traditional techniques of conflict resolution have ceased to be effective. The younger generation of Inuit appears to be Ihe most dramatically affected by these acculturative influences. This is reflected in dramatically altered patterns of emotional expression, aggressive behaviour and conflict management- all of which are becoming more clearly "southern " in character. Longitudinal research conducted by the author in the Inuit community of Hoi man since 1978 provides some insight into the nature of these changes among Inuit teenagers and young adults