Change, Conflict and Community

Change, Conflict and Community

Author: Barbara Kenton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0750681942

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The cost to business of unresolved conflicts is high in terms of expensive tribunals; loss of productivity, resignations and potentially loss of reputation for both individuals and the organization overall. Written by authors experienced in the field, this book addresses these key issues.


From Conflict to Community

From Conflict to Community

Author: Gwendolyn Olton

Publisher: Microcosm Publishing

Published: 2022-10-11

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1648411118

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Conflict is everywhere: our living rooms, our streets, our community organizations, and every corner of the internet. But few of us have the training to successfully intervene or resolve these conflicts. In these pages, experienced peacemaker Gwendolyn Olton shows you how to use your existing skills and intuition to transform a wide variety of conflicts from insurmountable impasses to working relationships where everyone's needs are met. The result is a practical, kind, realistic guidebook for anyone who's found themselves in a conflict (their own or someone else's) and wondered, "How did we get here and what can I do to make it better!?"The book is broken up into three sections: learn the basics of conflicts, help others work out their conflicts, and finally, resolve and heal the conflicts in your own life. Filled with real life examples and thought-provoking scenarios, Olton offers a variety of conflict analysis and conversation tools that you can use to navigate the most challenging interpersonal dynamics, and to better understand yourself and others along the way—all without calling HR or the cops.


Emergent Conflict and Peaceful Change

Emergent Conflict and Peaceful Change

Author: Hugh Miall

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-02-28

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0230288499

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Hugh Miall draws upon conflict theory, case studies of averted conflict and a survey of the preventors of war since 1945 to explore how some conflict can be avoided at times of great social or political change. He also looks ahead to discuss the prevention of emerging global conflicts, focusing on climate change.


Transformative Change

Transformative Change

Author: Laura E. Reimer

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2015-08-21

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0739198130

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This foundational Peace and Conflict Studies text is formatted to fit inside a 14 week college/university term. The chapters are designed to provide a succinct overview of research, theory, and practice that can be supplemented with material chosen by the professor. The book introduces students to the core concepts of the field, and provides an up to date alternative to the Peace and Conflict readers. It will move from historical development of the field to the way forward into the future. Each chapter will reflect current trends and research and contain up to date examples, questions for discussion or for potential student research topics, suggested reading, and engaged teaching activities.


Little Book of Conflict Transformation

Little Book of Conflict Transformation

Author: John Lederach

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-01-27

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 168099042X

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This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict—that eternally beleaguering human situation. John Paul Lederach is internationally recognized for his breakthrough thinking and action related to conflict on all levels—person-to-person, factions within communities, warring nations. He explores why "conflict transformation" is more appropriate than "conflict resolution" or "management." But he refuses to be drawn into impractical idealism. Conflict Transformation is an idea with a deep reach. Its practice, says Lederach, requires "both solutions and social change." It asks not simply "How do we end something not desired?" but "How do we end something destructive and build something desired?" How do we deal with the immediate crisis, as well as the long-term situation? What disciplines make such thinking and practices possible? This title is part of The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding series.


Conflict Analysis and Transformation

Conflict Analysis and Transformation

Author: Randy Janzen

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-10-19

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1527520099

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This book provides students, activists, community organizers and the general public with a concise and clear guide on how to approach, analyze and address conflict in order to transform relationships and work towards peace with justice. In doing so, it details a systematic process to analyze conflict, and offers an understandable framework in which to situate and choose strategies of building cultures of peace. It acknowledges the academic divide between the disciplines of peace studies and conflict resolution studies, yet is relevant to students of both fields. The volume draws on relevant theory and research from sociology, psychology, critical studies and anthropology, and starts from the assumption that conflict analysis and transformation must include a critical analysis of hegemony and power.


Conflict, Culture, Change

Conflict, Culture, Change

Author: Sulak Sivaraksa

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0861718194

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From Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sulak Sivaraksa comes this look at Buddhism's innate ability to help change life on the global scale. Conflict, Culture, Change explores the cultural and environmental impacts of consumerism, nonviolence, and compassion, giving special attention to the integration of mindfulness and social activism, the use of Buddhist ethics to confront structural violence, and globalization's threat to traditional identity.


Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment

Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment

Author: Gwendolyn Smith

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2017-01-02

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1783086092

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Using a case study of the Trio indigenous peoples in Suriname, Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment presents an inside view of a community facing climate change and on the path toward sustainable development. Smith and Bastidas take the reader beyond an examination of examples from the field of practice and into a thorough case study on climate change. With more than ten years of field experience, Smith and Bastidas present an in-depth, bottom-up analysis of sustainable development, including tools for practitioners, insight for academics and advice to policymakers.


Conflicts in the Knowledge Society

Conflicts in the Knowledge Society

Author: Sebastian Haunss

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1107036429

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Sebastian Haunss demonstrates how intellectual property conflicts have brought about new cleavages in the knowledge society and new collective actors.


Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Social Movements

Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Social Movements

Author: Anna Christine Snyder

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2011-11-02

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0857249142

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Investigates gendered aspects of social activism and peacebuilding. This title focuses on the agency of grassroots citizens, refugee, indigenous, and ethnic minority women. It brings gendered aspects of practice that assists scholars and practitioners in research and policy development.