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| A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts | Report Error | | Author: Harold H. Saunders | | Publication Date: September 2001 | | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | | Description: 'Many of the human conflicts that seize our attention are not ready for formal mediation and negotiation: People do not negotiate about identity, fear, historic grievance, and injustice. Sustained dialogue provides citizens outside government can change their conflictual relationships. Harold Saunders' A Public Peace Process, provides citizens instruments for transforming conflict. Saunders outlines a systematic approach for citizens to use in reducing racial, ethnic, and other deep-rooted tensions in their countries, communities, and organizations.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Getting to Peace: Transforming Conflict at Home, at Work, and in the World | Report Error | | Author: William L. Ury | | Publication Date: 1999 | | Publisher: Viking Press | | Description: 'Ury, coauthor of Getting to Yes and Getting Past No, takes on a global issueAhow people can live at peace with one another. Citing last spring's shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., as an example of horrible violence, Ury examines the myths about violence and offers some surprising insights and solutions. Using his anthropological fieldwork, Ury describes how the African Bushmen solve conflicts: no violence, whether it be raised voices or hitting children, is permitted; instead, there must be a dialogue until a solution to the problem is achieved. Anyone who is unwilling to work on a resolution verbally ends up leaving. Ury reports that Bushmen speak of a 'third side,' a point of view that represents not the interests of one of two parties to a conflict but rather the interests of the community as a whole. Ury then enumerates 10 'third side roles' that can be brought to bear on a conflict. These include mediator, arbitrator, equalizer and healer. Though filled with intelligent insight into the nature of human conflict, Ury's ideas are based on the premise that 'humanity is in the midst of a social, economic, and political transformation just as far-reaching as the Agricultural Revolution ten thousand years ago.' Skeptical readers will find that Ury comes close to asserting that human nature itself is changing. The book is full of good advice about conflict resolution, even if its more sweeping generalizations about the future eradication of war appear to be based more on optimism than on observation.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Must We Fight?: From The Battlefield to the Schoolyard - A New Perspective on Violent Conflict and Its Prevention | Report Error | | Author: William L. Ury (Editor) | | Publication Date: 2001 | | Publisher: Jossey-Bass | | Description: 'Ury, co-author of the bestselling Getting to Yes and a director at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation, observes that, in most cases, conflict between two parties involves a 'third side' 'the community in which the combatants, and their dispute, are embedded.' Whether the conflict takes place in inner-city Boston, between Hindus and Muslims in India or in apartheid South Africa, Ury argues that the solution to 'containing, resolving, and preventing' violence lies in activating this third group, whether it means involving independent witnesses, having 'community talks' or mobilizing the media and the clergy. Two other writers from different fields contribute to the book's attempt to debunk the commonly held belief that violence and war are part of our primate and prehistoric heritage. Frans de Waal, a leading primatologist, argues that aggression in primates occurs in a social context and that mechanisms for cooperation are as natural as aggression. Brian Ferguson, an anthropologist of war, asserts that archeological evidence shows a history of limited flare-ups of carefully planned violence that benefit elites rather than a regular constant pattern of violent conflict.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures | Report Error | | Author: John Paul Lederach | | Publication Date: 1996 | | Publisher: Syracuse University Press | | Description: 'Lederach blends a special training method in mediation with a tradition derived from his work in development. Throughout the book, he uses anecdote and pertinent experiences to demonstrate his resolution techniques. With an emphasis on the exchange involved in negotiation, Lederach conveys the key to successful conflict resolution: understanding how to guide disputants, transform their conflicts, and launch a process that empowers them.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Preventing Violent Conflicts: A Strategy for Preventive Diplomacy | Report Error | | Author: Michael S. Lund | | Publication Date: 1996 | | Publisher: United States Institute of Peace | | Description: 'Lund, an international relations consultant, defines early warning and preventive diplomacy, looking at which methods work and why, who uses them, and recent preventive efforts, and suggests how multilateral and national entities including the US government can overcome operational challenges to effective preventive action. He outlines a more systematic, global preventive regime that draws on the strengths of individual states, the UN, regional organizations, and NGOs.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Preventive Measures | Report Error | | Author: John L. Davies (Editor), Ted Robert Gurr (Editor) | | Publication Date: 1998 | | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing | | Description: 'State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening regional security and requiring major inputs of humanitarian assistance. They also may pose long-term and costly challenges of rebuilding shattered governments and societies. A vital policy question is whether failures can be diagnosed far enough in advance to facilitate effective international efforts at prevention or peaceful transformation. This volume of original essays examines crisis early warning factors at different levels, in different settings, and judges their effectiveness according to various models. Top contributors offer answers along with analyses as they move from early warning to early response in their policy recommendations.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/2/2003 |
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| Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict: Stories of Transformation and Forgiveness | Report Error | | Author: Kenneth Cloke (Author), Joan Goldsmith (Author) | | Publication Date: September 2000 | | Publisher: Jossey-Bass | | Description: 'Learn how personal and organizational conflicts can be resolved by listening closely to the 'stories' people tell when they are in conflict, understanding why people tell their stories in the ways they do, and creating a third story that brings them together. This visionary book is written by Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith, two renowned mediators, who have used the narrative structure method successfully in their own mediation practice to move people in conflict from stubbornness, hostility, and fear to openness, collaboration, and forgiveness. Focusing on the transformative power of stories, Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict includes an array of case studies from the authors' first-hand experience with thousands of clients. These case studies include the perspectives of all the parties in the conflict and cover a wide range of conflicts and disputes.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/13/2003 |
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