Embrace Happiness
Embrace Happiness

Author: Ali Soleymaniha

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-04-28

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1491729597

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It is your eternal responsibility to be successful and live happily; life is yours to enjoy. In Embrace Happiness, author Ali Soleymaniha provides a path to discover the Dao of lifethe way toward happiness, success, and high achievement in both ones personal life and business. Soleymaniha offers a theory that blends the philosophy of Dao with modern conflict management concepts. He explores what conflict is, what causes it, how people tend to react to conflict, and how you can manage it. He focuses specifically on the conflict management process, guiding you down a straightforward path that requires neither incredible tasks nor solitary contemplation, only practice. Embrace Happiness communicates the importance of practicing and living the way of nature: the Dao of life. It maintains that happiness is neither a target nor a destination; it is the way we are marching on. Soleymaniha teaches that knowledge and awareness will start small, but can grow extensivelylike a spiral moving upward and outward, glowing brighter at each step on the way to fulfilment.

Peaceful Resolutions
Peaceful Resolutions

Author: Michael A. Gregory

Publisher: Birch Grove Publishing

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781945148002

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This book was written to help: (1) someone who is currently in a conflict; (2) someone who wants to help others who are in conflict, and (3) someone who wants to take proactive steps to prevent conflictThis book has 60 steps organized into ten chapters for application at work, home,school, places of worship, or community to assist in conversations,discussions, negotiations, mediations, and achieving compromise.This book is written from the standpoint of a manager withmore than 30 years experience mediating more than 500 disputes,setting up processes to address hundreds of conflicts, withnegotiations and mediations completed over issues with as much as a billion dollars at stake.

Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management
Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management

Author: Rongxing Guo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-01-25

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1136630457

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This book examines the problems of boundary demarcation and its impact on territorial disputes, and offers techniques to manage and resolve the resulting conflicts. Historically, most civil conflicts and internal wars have been directly related to boundary or territorial disputes. Cross-border discord directly affects the sustenance and welfare of local populations, often resulting in disease, impoverishment, and environmental damage as well as creating refugees. Although the impact of territorial disputes is great, they can often be settled through bilateral, and sometimes multilateral, agreements or international arbitration. This book sets out to probe into the problems of existing techniques on boundary demarcation and to test their possible impacts on boundary and territorial disputes. Various factors and their influences on cross-border tensions are tested, either qualitatively or quantitatively. After close examination of dozens of the most significant cases, the book presents various alternative solutions to the achievement of cross-border cooperation in disputed territories. An ‘art of avoiding war’ is included within the book, comprising six key schemes and five negotiating techniques. The comparative advantages, costs and benefits of each of these is analyzed and evaluated. This book will help guide practitioners in territorial disputes and will be of interest to students of conflict management, international security, peace and conflict studies, political violence and IR in general.

Can Art Aid in Resolving Conflicts?
Can Art Aid in Resolving Conflicts?

Author: Noam Lemelshtrich Latar

Publisher: Frame Publishers

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9492311321

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A pioneering survey of leading and emerging global artists, curators and art practitioners on the question: can art aid in conflict resolution and therefore reduce global tensions and human suffering? Throughout the centuries, art has documented the atrocities of wars, participated in propaganda campaigns, and served as an advocate for peace and social justice around the world. The aim of this project is to explore how art can assist in creating dialogue and bridges across cultures and opposing groups. Over 100 leading and emerging architects, artists, curators, choreographers, composers, and directors of art institutions around the globe explore the potentially constructive role of the arts in conflict resolution. A summarizing chapter maps out the diverse positions and examines the variety of themes and approaches that were brought up.

The Art of Conflict Prevention
The Art of Conflict Prevention

Author: Werner Bauwens

Publisher: Potomac Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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This study examines the ways in which the great international organizations of the Western world - the UN, CSCE, NATO, the EC and WEU - should be seeking to work in co-operation to stem the flood of turmoil that characterizes the post-Cold-War world, and may even threaten the very existence of the present security community.

Across the Lines of Conflict
Across the Lines of Conflict

Author: Michael Lund

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-12-31

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 0231801378

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Through a comparative analysis of six case studies, this volume illustrates key conflict-resolution techniques for peacebuilding. Outside parties learn how to facilitate cooperation by engaging local leaders in intensive, interactive workshops. These opposing leaders reside in small, ethnically divided countries, including Burundi, Cyprus, Estonia, Guyana, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan, that have experienced communal conflicts in recent years. In Estonia and Guyana, peacebuilding initiatives sought to ward off violence. In Burundi and Sri Lanka, initiatives focused on ending ongoing hostilities, and in Cyprus and Tajikistan, these efforts brought peace to the country after its violence had ended. The contributors follow a systematic assessment framework, including a common set of questions for interviewing participants to prepare comparable results from a set of diverse cases. Their findings weigh the successes and failures of this particular approach to conflict resolution and draw conclusions about the conditions under which such interactive approaches work, as well as assess the audience and the methodologies used. This work features research conducted in conjunction with the Working Group on Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States, convened by the Wilson Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity.

Dispute System Design
Dispute System Design

Author: Lisa Blomgren Amsler

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1503611361

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Dispute System Design walks readers through the art of successfully designing a system for preventing, managing, and resolving conflicts and legally-framed disputes. Drawing on decades of expertise as instructors and consultants, the authors show how dispute systems design can be used within all types of organizations, including business firms, nonprofit organizations, and international and transnational bodies. This book has two parts: the first teaches readers the foundations of Dispute System Design (DSD), describing bedrock concepts, and case chapters exploring DSD across a range of experiences, including public and community justice, conflict within and beyond organizations, international and comparative systems, and multi-jurisdictional and complex systems. This book is intended for anyone who is interested in the theory or practice of DSD, who uses or wants to understand mediation, arbitration, court trial, or other dispute resolution processes, or who designs or improves existing processes and systems.

Getting to Resolution
Getting to Resolution

Author: Stewart Levine

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2009-11-09

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 160509580X

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Our current models for ending conflict don’t really work. They waste incredible amounts of time, money, and energy and take an enormous emotional toll on participants. The parties remain embittered, relationships are destroyed, and often the conflict just reappears later in a different form. In this second edition of his classic book, Stewart Levine offers a revolutionary alternative approach that goes beyond compromise and capitulation to provide a satisfactory resolution for everyone involved. Marriages run amuck, neighbors at odds with one another, business deals gone sour, and the pain and anger caused by corporate downsizing are just a few of the conflicts he addresses. The new edition has been thoroughly revised with new examples, new tools, new material about building trust and virtual collaboration, as well as a more global outlook. Levine rejects the adversarial legal model: "If both sides are unhappy, you probably have a good settlement." Resolution, he shows, provides relief and completeness for both sides. No one goes away unhappy. Effective resolution stops anger and resentment cold, drastically cutting the emotional cost and allowing both sides to return to productive, satisfying, functional relationships. Getting to Resolution outlines the ten principles underlying this new approach—what Levine calls “resolutionary thinking. Levine provides a detailed seven-step process for using this new mindset to resolve conflicts in a way that fosters dignity and integrity, optimizes resources, and allows all concerns to be voiced, honored, and woven into the resolution. Levine's model has a thirty-five-year track record. It has been developed, implemented, tested, and proven in business, personal, and governmental contexts. Getting to Resolution will enable readers to shift from thinking about problems, fighting, and breakdowns to thinking about collaboration, engagement, learning, creativity, and the opportunity for creating enduring value.