Conflict and Consensus
Author: Tony Fahey
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781904541189
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Cooperation, Conflict and Consensus in the Organization of American States
Author: C. Shaw
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-04-16
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1403978832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines conflict resolution efforts in Latin America by the Organization of American States (OAS) over the past fifty years by exploring the relationship of the United States with other member states within the context of the OAS. The book focuses on the impact of institutional factors on the influence that member states are able to wield within the organization. This innovative theoretical approach yields general insights into organizational behaviour and interstate relations within an international organization. The examination of thirty-one cases provides a wealth of empirical data and facilitates cross case comparisons.
The Consensus-conflict Debate
Author: Thomas J. Bernard
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780231056700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer
Author: Michael A. Roberto
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2005-06-06
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0132716461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarvard Business School's Michael Roberto draws on powerful decision-making case studies from every walk of life, showing how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; use it to improve decisions; and align organizations behind those decisions. Learn from disasters like the Space Shuttle Columbia and JFK's Bay of Pigs Invasion, from successes like Sid Caesar and Bill Parcells, from George W. Bush's decision-making after 9/11. Roberto complements his compelling case studies with extensive new research on executive decisionmaking. Discover how to test and probe a management team; when 'yes' means 'yes' and when it doesn't; and how to build real consensus that leads to action. Gain important new insights into managing teams, mitigating risk, promoting corporate ethics, and much more.
Conflict and Consensus
Author: Serge Moscovici
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Published: 1994-09-23
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a bold new theory of the processes of collective decision-making that draws on theoretical influences ranging from group decision theory through to the authors' own social representations theory. Moscovici and Doise offer a novel analysis of group conflict and the construction of consensus to produce a general theory of collective decisions. Going beyond the traditional view that compromise is a negative process where group members merely comply in order to sustain cohesion, the authors argue that the conflict at the root of group decisions can be a positive force leading to changes in opinion and to innovation. Their theoretical framework is illustrated in depth with numerous empirical investigations fro
Resolving Environmental Disputes
Author: Roger Sidaway
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1136558462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResolving Environmental Disputes presents detailed case studies from the key contemporary themes in resource management and environmental protection, such as: access to the countryside for recreation, sustainable forestry, pollution and risks to health, and coastal zone management. The book spans both theory and practice in assessing the relationship between public participation and mediation. It is structured around detailed case studies from Britain, the USA and the Netherlands, which are interspersed with chapters providing explanation and interpretation of the theoretical and practical issues involved. In reviewing the state of environmental conflict resolution, the author examines how and why conflicts occur and whether approaches to conflict resolution based on consensus building could be more widely applied.
Consensus, Cooperation and Conflict
Author: Henning Jørgensen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing that policy formation in Denmark is characterized by decentralization, Jorgenson (political science, Aalborg U., Denmark) presents a historical analysis of the development of the Danish welfare system. His central thesis is that there are repeated, recognizable, and unique traits in the way Danish politics and administration are designed that define a profile of structures of compromise and agreement between different social and political actors. He argues that principles of labor division form the basis of role definitions and actor relations. The public institutions function as mediators between macro, micro, and collective actors in conflict. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Peacebuilding and Local Ownership
Author: Timothy Donais
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 041558874X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the meaning of local ownership in peacebuilding and examines the ways in which it has been, and could be, operationalized in post-conflict environments. In the context of post-conflict peacebuilding, the idea of local ownership is based upon the premise that no peace process is sustainable in the absence of a meaningful degree of local involvement. Despite growing recognition of the importance of local ownership, however, relatively little attention has been paid to specifying what precisely the concept means or how it might be implemented. This volume contributes to the ongoing debate on the future of liberal peacebuilding through a critical investigation of the notion of local ownership, and challenges conventional assumptions about who the relevant locals are and what they are expected to own. Drawing on case studies from Bosnia, Afghanistan and Haiti, the text argues that local ownership can only be fostered through a long-term consensus-building process, which involves all levels of the conflict-affected society. This book will be of great interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, development studies, security studies and IR.
Postwar British Politics
Author: Peter Kerr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-26
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1134571518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a fresh view of postwar British politics, very much at odds to the dominant view in contemporary scholarship. The author argues that postwar British politics, up to and including the Blair Government, can be largely characterised in terms of continuity and a gradual evolution from a period of conflict over the primary aims of government strategy to one of recent relative consensus. This book provides a provocative and challenging account of the historical background to the election of the Blair Government and will be of interest to a wide audience.
Conflict and Consensus in Switzerland
Author: Carol L. Schmid
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780520040793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSchmid discusses this anomaly, concluding that Switzerland remains "united by a self-conscious political definition of nationhood", having developed a system early in its history that has ensured all ethnic and religious groups fair treatment politically, socially, and economically.
