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Peace Research Foundation
| Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution | Report Error | | Author: Louis Kriesberg | | Publication Date: November 2002 | | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield | | Description: 'Highly regarded by instructors as the most comprehensive and insightful textbook on conflict resolution, Constructive Conflicts has been significantly revised and updated in this second edition. The new edition builds on the strengths of the first, especially its organization around the different stages at which conflicts emerge, escalate, and resolve. Kriesberg's analysis utlizes diverse theoretical perspectives and data and is relevant for strategies that a variety of people can employ to foster constructive struggles. In this second edition to his highly recommended, leading text-book in conflict and peace studies by peaceful means Professor Kriesberg has included very valuable material on South Africa and apartheid, on the women's and Civil Rights movements in the USA and the justice and globalization movements. And, above all, on international terrorism and the al Qaeda network. In a dynamic world authors have to be equally dynamic. Professor Kriesberg is one of those.' Johan Galtung, professor of peace studies, Director, TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Coping with International Conflict: A Systematic Approach to Influence in International Negotiation | Report Error | | Author: Roger Fisher, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Elizabeth Borgwardt, Brian Ganson | | Publication Date: November 1996 | | Publisher: Prentice Hall | | Description: 'This text combines the clear, concise, proven principles and practice of conflict management from Fisher's bestseller Getting to Yes with the newest problem-solving approaches to international relations. Many of the concepts presented grew out of materials Fisher and his colleagues use in their international consulting work to teach problem-solving and conflict management skills to diplomats and heads of state involved in contentious international disputes. Exercises, applications, examples, readings, and anecdotes guide readers through the processes of diagnosing and prescribing approaches to real-world conflicts.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Culture & Conflict Resolution | Report Error | | Author: Kevin Avruch | | Publication Date: October 1998 | | Publisher: United States Institute of Peace | | Description: 'After years of relative neglect, culture is finally receiving due recognition as a key factor in the evolution and resolution of conflicts. Unfortunately, however, when theorists and practitioners of conflict resolution speak of 'culture,' they often understand and use it in a bewildering and unhelpful variety of ways. With sophistication and lucidity, Culture and Conflict Resolution exposes these shortcomings and proposes an alternative conception in which culture is seen as dynamic and derivative of individual experience. The book explores divergent theories of social conflict and differing strategies that shape the conduct of diplomacy, and examines the role that culture has (and has not) played in conflict resolution. The author is as forceful in critiquing those who would dismiss or diminish cultures relevance as he is trenchant in advocating conflict resolution approaches that make the most productive use of a coherent concept of culture. In a lively style, Avruch challenges both scholars and practitioners not only to develop a clearer understanding of what culture is, but also to take that understanding and incorporate it into more effective conflict resolution processes.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict | Report Error | | Author: Roger B. Myerson | | Publication Date: September 1997 | | Publisher: Harvard Univ Press | | Description: 'Eminently suited to classroom use as well as individual study, Roger Myerson's introductory text provides a clear and thorough examination of the models, solution concepts, results, and methodological principles of noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Myerson introduces, clarifies, and synthesizes the extraordinary advances made in the subject over the past fifteen years, presents an overview of decision theory, and comprehensively reviews the development of the fundamental models: games in extensive form and strategic form, and Bayesian games with incomplete information.
Game Theory will be useful for students at the graduate level in economics, political science, operations research, and applied mathematics. Everyone who uses game theory in research will find this book essential.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/17/2003 |
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| Getting Disputes Resolved: Designing Systems to Cut the Costs of Conflict | Report Error | | Author: William L. Ury, Jeanne M. Brett, Stephen B. Goldberg (Authors) | | Publication Date: 1988 | | Publisher: Jossey-Bass | | Description: 'Renowned mediator William Ury offers tested guidelines for designing a dispute resolution system to handle conflicts effectively on an ongoing basis. He explains how to diagnose and correct problems in an existing system or create and implement a new system where one does not exist. His four-phase process includes specific advice on involving adverse parties in diagnosing current problems, designing the system, and overcoming opposition to change. The result is a win-win formula for putting a system in place that contains the costs associated with conflict by addressing them as they arise.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Journeys Through Conflict: Narratives and Lessons | Report Error | | Author: Hayward R. Alker, Ted Robert Gurr, Kumar Rupesinghe, eds. | | Publication Date: 2001 | | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | | Description: 'Journeys Through Conflict is the story of the Conflict Early Warning Systems (CEWS) project of the International Social Science Research Council. It relates the history of the project, presents its empirically grounded approach to anticipating violent conflict, and shows how the approach may be extended to other social science research arenas. Phase analysis of conflict life cycles, comparative case studies, reconstructed narratives, and policy lessons are hallmarks of this pathbreaking work by an international, interdisciplinary group of expert conflict analysts. Journeys Through Conflict projects alternate pathways to war and peace by a unique coding, graphing, and computational procedure that takes into account both contested conflict histories and future conflict resolutions.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/2/2003 |
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| Managing Intercultural Conflict Effectively | Report Error | | Author: John G. Oetzel (Author), Stella Ting-Toomey (Author) | | Publication Date: July 2001 | | Publisher: Sage Publications | | Description: 'In this volume, Ting-Toomey and Oetzel accomplish two objectives: to explain the culture-based situational conflict model, including the relationship among conflict, ethnicity, and culture; and, second, integrate theory and practice in the discussion of interpersonal conflict in culture, ethnic, and gender contexts. While the book is theoretically directed, it is also a down-to-earth practical book that contains ample examples, conflict dialogues, and critical incidents. Managing Intercultural Conflict Effectively helps to illustrate the complexity of intercultural conflict interactions and readers will gain a broad yet integrative perspective in assessing intercultural conflict situations. The book is a multidisciplinary text that draws from the research work of a variety of disciplines such as cross-cultural psychology, social psychology, sociology, marital and family studies, international management, and communication.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/13/2003 |
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