The contributors to this fully revised volume, a team of international experts with both academic and professional experience in the field, provide a... broad range of geographical and disciplinary perspectives. Covering theory, research and practice, they analyze the different types of conflict and offer a thorough examination of the influences on conflict - structural, situational, strategic and cultural. Exploring conflict management and resolution, they also discuss negotiation, mediation, peace-keeping and peace-building.  

Cultural differences among group members, whether they belong to multinational business teams or culturally diverse families, are frequently the sources... of misunderstanding and conflict. Using examples from a variety of cultures to illustrate techniques for resolving these conflicts, Conflict Across Cultures: A Unique Experience of Bridging Differences demystifies the complex ways in which misunderstandings can arise as a result of cultural differences. The authors describe and identify the processes, tools and skills that make for successful conflict resolution. Most importantly, the stories at the heart of the book are culturally and geographically diverse, applicable for groups in a wide range of settings: business, law, social service, government, non-government agencies, academic and at home.Conflict Across Cultures is an excellent bridging book. It is both a celebration and explanation of culture as a set of geographies, something that cumulatively surrounds and grounds us and that, like it or not, we carry inside us. -Peter S. Adler, PhD, president of The Keystone Center, past president of SPIDR, and co-author of Building Trust: Twenty Things You Can Do to Help Environmental Stakeholder Groups Talk More Effectively About Science, Culture, Professional Knowledge and Community WisdomConflict Across Cultures: A Unique Experience of Bridging Differences comes from modern conflict resolution scholars from Canada, South Africa, Japan and the US who describe the latest concepts and framework for successful conflict resolution. With these new techniques in hand comes new understanding of the roots of cultural conflicts, exposed in a series of stories which come from a range of groups and locales. College-level students of international studies will find this perfect for classroom debate and study.-The Midwest Book Review, Bookwatch, March 2007Michelle LeBaron and Venashri Pillay are extraordinarily honest as they share situations in story form and present a new generation of resolution techniques in Conflict Across Cultures. They describe processes and help build the skills necessary for successful conflict resolution. They present us with a new framework for understanding others-a map for making progress through differences that can otherwise overwhelm us....I found the advice in this book honest, practical and above all immensely challenging....Perhaps every president, prime minister and monarch in the world today should be forced to read it. Wouldn't that be a good idea to give peace a chance?-Marion James, Sunday's Zaman 2/25/08ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1 Crossing Boundaries2 Conflict, Culture, and Images of Change3 Culture: Exploring the River4 A Journey Toward Cultural Fluency5 When the Waters of Culture and Conflict Meet6 Capacities and Skills for Intercultural Conflict Resolution7 A Map Through Rough Terrain: A Guide for Intercultural Conflict Resolution8 Full Circle Reflection: Learning from OurselvesReferencesIndex

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts’ Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings... that argue about the shape of international conflict in this post-Cold War and post-9/11 era. Contextualized within a broader philosophical and historical context, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader introduce students to the core debates about the causes and the future of war and peace. Through the precision of its approach and attention to new issues, this reader challenges conventional wisdom and encourages more critical examination of the political, economic, social, and military factors that underlie political violence.

Updated in its 4th edition, Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security.... Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts, this text offers a broad historical and philosophical breadth, with carefully chosen and excerpted selections. This popular reader helps engage key debates over the future of war and the new forms that violent conflict will take. Conflict After the Cold War encourages closer scrutiny of the political, economic, social, and military factors that drive war and peace.

A 'how-to' book for medical aid workers - doctors, nurses and paramedics - working in hostile environments (natural disasters, man-made disasters,... conflict in all its forms and remote or austere industrial settings). This manual provides information on what is going on, how to get involved, how to get ready, guidance on what to do out there, and how to get home bridging the fields of medicine, nursing international relations, politics, economics and history.

No series of events had a more dramatic impact on the course of American history than the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves. This... book examines the economic and political factors that led to the attempt by Southerners to dissolve the Union in 1860 and the equally determined effort of Northerners to preserve it. A central thesis of the book is that slavery not only "caused" the Civil War by producing tensions that could not be resolved by compromise; the slave system also played a crucial role in the outcome of the war by crippling the Southern war effort at the same time that emancipation became a unifying cause for the North. The author looks at a century of sectional conflict over slavery and reveals a great irony of the American Civil War. The South suffered a bitter defeat in a war to protect the institution of slavery, even though it is likely that the Constitution of the United States offered the best protection for a slave system. And, despite the abolition of slavery in the United States, equality for Black Americans remained a distant dream.

Designed to acquaint students with the fundamental principles of and treatises on international relations theory, CONFLICT AND COOPERATION combines a... broad range of historical and contemporary readings that provide a thorough, balanced view of International Relations theory. This text could be used alone or as a complement to a standard International Relations text.

Allan Schmid’s innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics,investigates "the rules of the game," how... institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications and numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology, law, and political science. Addresses formal and informal institutions, the impact of alternative institutions, and institutional change and evolution. Presents a framework open to changing preferences, bounded rationality, and evolution. Explains how to form empirically testable hypotheses using experiments, case studies, and econometrics. Includes numerous practice and discussion questions.

Over the past decade, a new awareness of the relationship between conflicts and development has grown. Developmental factors can act as a trigger for... violence, as well as for ending violence and for triggering post-conflict reconstruction. This book explores the complexity of the links between violent conflict (usually civil wars) and development, under-development and uneven development. It emphasizes the connections between stable developed economies and civil wars in other parts of the world, and examines how structural factors (such as the organization of the global economy) virtually condemn some regions to conflict and under-development. This valuable introductory text explains, reviews and critically evaluates this complex relationship. It focuses on intra-state conflicts and complex political emergencies that combine transnational and internal characteristics. Attention is also given to inter-state conflicts. Chapters emphasize how the relationship between conflict and development traverses many scales (macro, meso and micro) and dimensions (economic, political and cultural). Furthermore it explains how different developmental challenges and opportunities emerge along the full life-cycle of conflict. Specifically, the role of poverty, state, market, civil society, globalization, humanitarian aid, refuges, gender and health within conflict dynamics are examined. The book also investigates specific developmental issues emerging during conflict management and post conflict reconstruction. Both authors have a background in conducting research in deeply divided societies, and argue that many of the processes connected with war and peace making deliberately write people out of the equation. This book attempts to ‘write people in’. By drawing on contemporary theoretical debates and examining current policies and events, the text unpacks the difficult and complex aspects of the relationships between armed conflict and development and makes them accessible, interesting and policy relevant. It considers how peace making, peace building, and post-war reconstruction are usually more sustainable and successful if politicians, policy makers, entrepreneurs and those working for international NGOs take on board local opinion and capacity. Written in an accessible style, the book considers the main contemporary theories and arguments on conflict, development and the interactions between the two. The text is illuminated throughout with case studies drawn from Africa, the Balkans, Asia and the Middle East.

The international community today is hardly in a position to avoid another genocide, as witnessed in Rwanda in 1994, despite the significant evolution... of early warning systems in recent years. Based on a review of the literature on early warning and response, as well as inputs from surveyed agencies, Preventing Violence, War and State Collapse assesses the value and role of early warning for the prevention of violent conflict and identifies the most effective early warning and response systems. It concludes with a set of recommendations for policy makers in donor and partner countries in influencing future developments in this field. Table of Content : List of Abbreviations Executive Summary Introduction -Background -Key Definitions -Critical Questions -Structure of the Report Chapter 1. A Short Contemporary History of Conflict Early Warning Chapter 2. The Range of Early Warning Tools and Systems Chapter 3. Is Early Early? A Review of Response Mechanisms and Instruments Chapter 4. Future Directions for Early Warning and Early Response Chapter 5. Conclusions and Recommendations Bibliography Annex. Compendium of Surveyed Early Warning Systems and Early Response Mechanisms/Instruments

Conflict and Resolution, Second Edition, provides students with a working knowledge of the major forms of dispute resolution. Through the use of... hands-on exercises and role-playing scenarios, theory is put into practice allowing students to translate lessons learned into true to life situations. This newly revised text offers the following: Provides an overview of negotiation, mediation, and arbitration in a short, accessible book; Well-designed pedagogy for the paralegal students, including chapter summaries and exercises designed to engage students in application of what they have learned; Includes role-plays to allow students to experience how the theories of dispute resolution are used in practice; Ethical issues thoroughly covered. The Second Edition offers: An even clearer presentation of the three major approaches to mediation: facilitative, evaluative, and transformative; Online negotiation and mediation will be included; New topics including restorative justice and victim-offender mediation; Expanded materials on arbitration; Chapter on Conflict has been expanded to include different conflict styles.

Why did the German Democratic Republic last for so long--longer, in fact, than the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich combined? This book looks at... various political, social, and economic conflicts at the grass roots of the GDR in an attempt to answer this question and account for regime stability. A local study, it examines opposition and discontent in Saalfeld, an important industrial and agricultural district. Based on previously inaccessible primary sources as well as on interviews with local residents, the book offers a novel explanation for the durability of the regime by looking at how authorities tried to achieve harmony and consensus through negotiation and compromise. At the same time, it shows how official policies created deep-seated social cleavages that promoted stability by hindering East Germans from presenting a united front to authorities when mounting opposition or pressing for change. All of this provides an indirect answer to perhaps the major question of the postwar period: Why did the Cold War last as long as it did?

One of the most serious threats to peace, security and the sovereignty of nations in the post-Cold War era, is population migration. A particularly... volatile form of this threat is the global refugee problem and nowhere is this problem more severe than in Africa. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of refugee experience in the Horn of Africa. It includes an examination of the dynamics of flight from the country of origin, settlement in exile and repatriation to the country of origin. Such an integrative approach sets this book apart from other studies and will serve as a reader for courses on ethno-national conflicts, migration, international politics, security and African politics.

Conflict Coaching: Conflict Management Strategies and Skills for the Individual defines this growing area of conflict resolution and distinguishes... conflict coaching as a stand-alone resolution technique. In a service society where human relationships are central to our professional as well as personal lives, individuals value one-on-one attention to obtain custom solutions for handling important interpersonal communication. The CD-ROM accompanying the book provides numerous resources for instructors, coaches, and other interested readers.