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Settlement, Resolution, Management, and Transformation: An Explanation of Terms: Additional Resources
These references supplement the Knowledge Base Essay, Settlement, Resolution, Management, and Transformation: An Explanation of Terms.
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Additional Explanations of the Underlying Concepts:
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Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation. Berg of Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, December 2007. Available at: http://www.berghof-handbook.net/ [Backup Link] This Handbook consists of many different articles on conflict transformation. It gives practitioners and scholars an overview of the currently available approaches, methods, techniques and theories of conflict transformation. The Handbook documents and assesses the state of the art in the field, as well as offering opportunities to reflect on and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. The topic structure of the Handbook is organized according to the conceptual preconditions, the different social levels, and the various dimensions of conflict transformation. Negowetti, Nicole. "Reconciliation: Central Component of Conflict Transformation." , April 4, 2003 Available at: http://www.skynet.ie/~peacesoc/read/reconciliation.html [Backup Link] This essay examines the concept of reconciliation as central to Jonh Paul Lederach's theory of conflict transformation. It asserts that contemporary intra-state conflicts require innovative approaches that consider the subjective experiences of both victims and perpetrators, for their transformation. The piece includes discussion of Lederach's distinction between conflict transformation and the concepts of conflict resolution and conflict management. The Surprising Preponderance of Peace. 2003. Available at: http://www.aworldofpossibilities.com/details.cfm?id=107 [Backup Link] An interview by Susan Collin Marks, Frank Deford, Robert Fuller, and William Ury. Peace, it turns out, is actually the norm throughout human history. War, though, is far from extinct. In this, the first of a four part series, we ask, "What would it take to eliminate war as a means of settling conflicts?" and, "Is there a better game than war?"
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Fisher, Roger, Elizabeth Kopelman and Andrea Kupfer Schneider. Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping with Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, April 1, 1994. This work provides advice and guidelines for handling disputes of any kind. Conflict management is discussed in the context of multiple arenas, from international politics to corporate issues. The work specifically focuses on the concept of conflict management, rather than conflict resolution. Primary Link Jeong, Ho-Won, ed. Conflict Resolution: Dynamics, Process and Structure. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., September 1999. The essays compiled in this edited volume are meant to offer further conceptual development of some approaches to conflict resolution. The aim is to develop approaches that consider the broader context of conflict in a more realistic way, especially in terms of recognizing larger social process and structure. The volume examines ways in which adversarial relationships can be transformed and reconciled in diverse settings. Burton, John W. and E. Frank Dukes. Conflict: Practices in Management, Settlement, and Resolution . New York: St. Martin's Press, October 1990. Conflict: Practices in Management, Settlement, and Resolution describes different types of conflicts and different approaches to conflict management. It attempts to match the different types of conflict with the most appropriate management process. This work includes some very influential definitions of key terms in the field of conflict resolution . Primary Link Burton, John W. Conflict: Resolution and Provention. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, Inc., July 1990. This work presents an historical and theoretical perspective, and a framework for consideration of theory and practice in conflict resolution. It represents a shift in the field, from approaches to conflict that emphasized deterrence and conflict management to those that emphasize conflict prevention and resolution. The author's perspective on conflict is grounded in human needs theory. Primary Link [Backup Link] Lederach, John Paul. Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, August 1, 1996. In this book the author draws on his personal experiences in order to examine the practice of teaching conflict resolution. Lederach seeks to address the problem of universalized techniques that are falsely assumed to work across different cultural contexts. Instead, Lederach explores the purpose of dispute resolution training and its relationship with culture. The author promotes a framework for peace that is based on the notion of conflict transformation, which differs in its principles from "conflict resolution" and "conflict management." Primary Link Pruitt, Dean G., Jeffrey Z. Rubin and Sung Hee Kim. Social Conflict: Escalation, Stalemate, and Settlement, 2nd Edition. New York: McGraw Hill College Division, January 1, 1994. This work seeks to develop a comprehensive theory of conflict by describing the various strategies that parties involved in conflict use. The author discusses the nature of conflict and its primary causes, the causes and stages of escalation, stalemate and de-escalation, and conditions that foster problem solving approaches to dealing with conflict. The book is oriented toward a problem-solving approach to conflict and includes a discussion of the role of third-party interveners. Primary Link Deutsch, Morton. The Resolution of Conflict: Constructive and Destructive Processes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. This work provides a set of theoretical essays and research papers that deal with the nature of conflict and discuss various strategies for resolving conflict. Coming from the point of view of social psychology, the author focuses heavily on the concepts of cooperation, competition, and trust in explicating constructive and destructive conflict resolution processes. Primary Link
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Nathan, Laurie. "Crisis Resolution and Conflict Management in Africa." , Available at: http://ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za/archive/staff-papers/laurie-bank.html [Backup Link] This paper argues that in the context of Africa violence may be the predominant concern from a humanitarian perspective, but that it should be viewed as a symptom of intra-state crises from an analytical perspective. The piece identifies four specific structural conditions that are argued to give rise to crises: 1) authoritarian rule; (2) the exclusion of minority or majority groups from governance; (3) socio-economic deprivation combined with inequity; (4) and weak states which lack the institutional capacity to manage political and social conflict. The author argues these conditions are the primary causes of mass violence in Africa, and that sustainable peace is possible only if they are addressed satisfactorily. The distinction between addressing symptoms of conflict and causes of conflict, closely parallels the conceptual differences between "conflict management" and "conflict resolution." Dukes, E. Frank. "Why Conflict Transformation Matters: Three Cases." , November 1999 Available at: http://www.gmu.edu/academic/pcs/Dukes61PCS.html [Backup Link] This essay begins with an examination of the importance of conflict transformation. The failings of an ideology of conflict management currently dominating the conflict resolution field, are contrasted with components of a transformative practice. The author then offers three cases from personal experience and draws lessons from them to illustrate the potential of conflict resolution in three distinct areas: fostering community, building a responsive governance, and resolving public conflict.
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Hauss, Charles (Chip). International Conflict Resolution: International Relations for the 21st Century. New York: Continuum Publishing, 2001. Part one of this work focuses on theories about how to resolve conflicts in the international arena. The author emphasizes new approaches to conflict resolution that stress win-win outcomes, reconciliation, and stable peace. The second part of the work presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the range of conflicts that exist at the dawn of the 21st century. Some of the studies illustrate cases in which progress has been made toward resolution and others in which it has not. The case studies are intended to give readers a look at the conditions under which win-win conflict resolution and stable peace are most, and least, likely to occur. |
