FOURTEEN PROMOTING ONTOLOGICAL INSECURITY TO TRANSFORM THE GOVERNANCE OF SCIENCE Elizabeth A. Pitts & Jessica Katz Jameson Transforming Conflict through Communication in Personal, Family, and Working Relationships (October 2016, Lexington Books) Scholarship in organizational communication demonstrates that conflict is not only interpersonal, but institutional. 1 From this point of view, facilitating conflict transformation 2 requires moving away from “reliance on individual behaviors as the explanation and panacea for conflict based on human difference” towards “an understanding that acknowle dges institutional influences and identifies possibilities for personal responses to those systems.” 3 Put more simply, to transform conflicts that are embedded in established professional routines and identities, scholars must consider the interplay between individual action and organizational systems. We explore opportunities for this type of transformation in the structuring of governance, which we define as “all processes of governing, whether undertaken by a government, market, or network, whether over a family, tribe, formal or informal organization, or territory, and whether through laws, norms, power, or language.” 4 Specifically, we are interested in how, if at all, governance might be organized to intentionally disrupt the security of structured routines. The US National Science Foundation-funded program that we investigate seeks to infuse a broader variety of disciplinary perspectives into doctoral-level education in the sciences—in other words, to make the educational experience more participatory by expanding “the number of people and the types of interests, experiences, ideas, and opinions that are part of the execution of work . . .