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| Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution | Report Error | | Author: Alvin W. Wolfe, Honggang Yang, eds. | | Publication Date: 1996 | | Publisher: University of Georgia Press | | Description: 'Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution consists of ten essays that make vividly apparent the variety of ways that anthropological approaches and perspectives can be of practical worth in the resolution of conflicts. The essays represent various subdisciplines in anthropology, including legal and political anthropology, economic anthropology, cross-cultural studies, interpretive approaches, and social network approaches. Conflicts and potential conflicts at many levels are the subjects of the essays. One contributor uses an ethnographic account of Sikh separatists in Punjab, India, to explore fighting resulting from the intertwining of religion and politics. Another essay discusses the role that anthropology played in conceptualizing the legal reforms on an island in the remote western Pacific in relation to the recent emergence of alternative dispute resolution. Conflicts over the commons in an American suburb are examined, as are harmony ideology and adversarial ideology as they are used for both freedom and control at a manufacturing plant. The introductory essay includes a discussion of network models in regard to conflict resolution, and the epilogue cites an agenda for applied research in the area.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/1/2003 |
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| Blood on the Doorstep: The Politics of Preventive Action | Report Error | | Author: Barnett R. Rubin | | Publication Date: The Century Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations | | Publisher: October 2002 | | Description: 'Throughout the 1990s, U.S. policymakers by and large thought they could insulate the country from the collapse of distant states and the spread of war and disorder in some of the world’s poorest regions. The attacks on September 11, 2001, however, showed that dire conditions in seemingly isolated regions could become incubators for violence that hits America directly. This book, based on Barnett R. Rubin’s years of experience as director of the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that initiatives aimed at preventing regional crises must form a key part of the U.S. global security strategy.
Drawing on his experience leading CPA projects in the Balkans, Central Asia, Central Africa, and West Africa, as well has his extensive work on Afghanistan, Rubin illustrates concretely how seemingly exotic and distant conflicts are deeply integrated into our global system through the effects of global strategies and markets. These conflicts, the author argues, are harder to contain once they flare up into violence and yet are potentially more subject to prevention by global actors than common wisdom claims.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Breaking Cycles of Violence: Conflict Prevention in Intrastate Crises | Report Error | | Author: Janie Leatherman (Editor), William Demars, Patrick Gaffney, Raimo Vayrynen | | Publication Date: May 1999 | | Publisher: Kumarian Press | | Description: 'This timely book studies how to target and prioritize resources in societies at immediate risk for violent conflict. The text develops guidelines, illustrated in the cases of Burundi and Macedonia, for assessing the causes of conflict through early warning indicators, while presenting multidimensional strategies to transform them. Preventative action is seen as a means to contain conflicts and rehabilitate societies throughout the escalation, violence, and post-conflict cycle.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Civil Wars, Civil Peace: An Introduction to Conflict Resolution | Report Error | | Author: Kumar Rupesinghe, Sanam M. Anderlini | | Publication Date: June 1998 | | Publisher: Pluto Press | | Description: 'Civil Wars, Civil Peace offers a radical new approach to conflict prevention, resolution and diplomacy. Designed for undergraduate students as well as for practitioners and peace negotiators, the book provides an overview of conflict in the post-Cold War world, covering key topics such as identifying and assessing early warnings of conflict, and the need to take early action; information gathering and analysis; and the need for preventive diplomacy. In particular, the role of non-governmental organisations and other third-party mediators in conflict resolution is considered.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Conflict Management: A Communication Skills Approach | Report Error | | Author: Deborah Borisoff and David Victor | | Publication Date: 1989 | | Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall | | Description: The authors discuss a communication skills approach toward managing conflicts. They emphasize the role of communication plays in exacerbating conflicts. The authors also offer communication strategies that promote productive conflict management. | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 9/27/2003 |
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| Conflict Resolution Activities That Work! | Report Error | | Author: Kathleen M. Hollenbeck | | Publication Date: February, 2001 | | Publisher: Scholastic Professional Books | | Description: 'The book has dozens of easy and effective reading, writing and role-playing activities that give kids the skills they need to get along with one another. The book also helps kids listen, communicate, cooperate and respect one another with quick, engaging activities, reproducibles, a play, a game and more.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/13/2003 |
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| Conflict Resolution: The Analytic Hierachy Approach | Report Error | | Author: Thomas L. Saaty, Joyce M. Alexander | | Publication Date: October 1989 | | Publisher: Praeger Publishers | | Description: 'This book demonstrates a new way to analyze and negotiate conflict resolution. It provides a framework in which conflicting parties can participate partly, fully, or not at all. Unlike the traditional quantitative approach, this new approach deals with tangible and intangible factors including political skill, diplomacy, threats, and concessions. Intangible factors are measured and traded off against tangible ones. A thorough discussion of the Analytic Hierarchy Process is followed by its application to a series of current world conflicts including Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the Middle East. Retributive conflicts are then given special attention. Cases include the Canadian/U.S. free-trade negotiations.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Conflict: Resolution and Provention | Report Error | | Author: John Burton | | Publication Date: 1990 | | Publisher: New York: St. Martin"s Press | | Description: John Burton offers a historical and theoretical overview of approaches to conflict resolution. A problem-solving approach to conflict resolution and the need for conflict prevention is emphasized.
| | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 9/27/2003 |
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