Indigenous Communication Systems in Conflict Resolution
Indigenous Communication Systems in Conflict Resolution

Author: Gebreselassie Kahsay

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9783848433339

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Despite the rapid growth of modern media in this world, indigenous communication systems have still a considerable significance in conflict resolution, peace building and democratization. This book provides that in indigenous conflict resolution systems, the community mostly employs the win-win approach on which there is neither a looser nor a winner, but issues are compromised for mutual gain. Moreover, it was found that traditional communication systems seem to be more appropriate than the modern ones or the court in resolving conflict. This is so, because they are not easily exposed to bribery, are good at bringing sustainable peace, and they are more helpful in time management. The author strongly believes that this book will be especially so worthy to professionals in journalism and communications field and peace and security studying areas or any one else who may be bearing in mind the merit of indigenous communication systems in peace building and promoting democracy.

Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies
Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies

Author: Akanmu G. Adebayo

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-04-04

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0739188054

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We know that since the end of the Cold War, conflicts in non-Western countries have been frequent, frequently violent, largely intra-state, and protracted. But what do we know about conflict management and resolution strategies in these societies? Have the dominant Western approaches been transplantable, suitable, effective, durable, and sustainable? Would conflicts in non-Western societies be better handled by the adaptation and adoption of customary, traditional, or localized mechanisms of mitigation? These and similar questions have engaged the attention of scholars and policy-makers. Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies: Global Perspectives is offered as a global compendium on indigenous conflict management strategies. It presents diverse perspectives on the subject. Fully aware of the tendency in the literature to over-generalize, over-romanticize, and over-criticize the localized and customary mechanisms, the book takes a slightly different approach. It presents a variety of traditional conflict management approaches as well as several cases of the successful integration of the indigenous and Western strategies in the contemporary period. The main features, strengths, challenges, and weaknesses of a multitude of indigenous systems are also presented.

Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa
Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa

Author: Brandon D. Lundy

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-11-19

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0739192590

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Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa:Beyond Right and Wrong expands the discourse on indigenous knowledge. With several examples and case histories, the work defines, characterizes, and explains indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa, particularly in Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon. The book critically evaluates indigenous conflict management strategies with a view to determining their effectiveness in the context of the societies’ history and culture, and the relevance and adaptability of these strategies in contemporary contexts. This book takes a scholarly approach, avoiding romanticizing or idealizing indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa. It advocates a set of mechanisms by which the best elements of indigenous knowledge and skills in conflict management may be deployed to settle contemporary disputes, and made portable for adoption and adaptation by other complex societies in the region and beyond.

Indigenous Communication in Africa
Indigenous Communication in Africa

Author: Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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This book argues that indigenous modes of communication ? for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio ? are essential to the societies within which they exist and which create them; and that coupled with newer, or modern forms of communication technology such as the internet and digitised information, endogenous modes of communication are paramount to the processes of human development in Africa.

Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies
Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies

Author: Akanmu G. Adebayo

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781498550420

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This book presents a variety of traditional conflict management approaches as well as several cases of successful and unsuccessful integrations of indigenous and Western strategies. As it explores these methods, the book also analyzes the central characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of a multitude of indigenous systems from around the globe.

Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts
Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts

Author: Catherine Bell

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0774859989

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In the last twenty years, there has been a growing interest in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), as scholars and practitioners seek more effective, context-sensitive approaches to conflict. Where formerly conflict was tackled and “resolved” in formal legal settings and with an adversarial spirit, more conciliatory approaches – negotiation, mediation, problem-solving, and arbitration – are now gaining favour. These new methods are proving especially appropriate in intercultural contexts, particularly for Aboriginal land claims, self-government, and community-based disputes. The essays collected here by Catherine Bell and David Kahane provide a balanced view of ADR, exploring its opportunities and effectiveness alongside its challenges and limits. The essays are international in scope, with examples of efforts at dispute resolution involving Inuit and Arctic peoples, Dene, Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en, Tsuu T’ina, Cree, Metis, Navajo, Maori, Aboriginal Australians, and Torres Strait Islanders. With contributions from Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal theorists and practitioners, Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts presents an array of insightful perspectives. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Aboriginal law and alternative dispute resolution; legal and political theorists; dispute resolution practitioners; and anyone involved in struggles around land claims, treaty, and self-government agreements in Canada or abroad.

The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication
The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication

Author: John G. Oetzel

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2006-01-18

Total Pages: 809

ISBN-13: 1452261636

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The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice is the first resource to synthesize key theories, research, and practices of conflict communication in a variety of contexts. Editors John Oetzel and Stella Ting-Toomey, as well as expert researchers in the field, emphasize constructive conflict management from a communication perspective which places primacy in the message as the focus of conflict research and practice.