Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions

ISBN-13: 9781032375069 / Twarda / 2023 / 392 str.

Opis

This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman.

Recenzje

‘Our field has seen much development in recent years, with concepts such as "inclusion" and the "local turn" having come to fore.  But we grapple with what these ideas mean in practice.  This book presents clear, readable analyses, which are both practical and theoretically informed.  It is an essential read for anyone working on these questions today.’

Peter Jones, Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs, and Executive Director of Ottawa Dialogue, University of Ottawa, Canada

‘This is an exciting book because the authors of the sixteen chapters are distinguished scholars from many countries, who met together with draft chapters focusing on the evolution of interactive problem-solving practices to overcome protracted conflicts.  The result is an integrated set of important perspectives about many advances to such practices over time, in varying circumstances.’

Louis Kriesberg, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Syracuse University, USA

‘This book does more than assemble former students, colleagues and friends to offer us a Gedenkschrift to honor Herb Kelman’s legacy. It brings together outstanding peace and conflict studies scholars and practitioners to engage in the future of learning about complexity thinking and system dynamics, areas that were championed by Kelman as he pursued knowledge to understand the perplexing challenges posed by protracted conflict. In this volume, the contributors build on Kelman’s work to help us to understand better how systems can be shaped through sustained and meaningful understanding and engagement.’

Pamina Firchow, Associate Professor of Coexistence and Conflict, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Spis treści

Foreword  Preface  1. Introduction  Part I: Complex Intractable Conflict, Theoretical Lenses, and the Vision of Herbert Kelman  2. Interactive Conflict Transformation through a Complexity Lens: Local Actors, Interaction, and the Dynamics of Change  3. Kelman’s Theoretical Brilliance: Complete Social Psychologist and Consummate Conflict Resolution Scholar–Practitioner  4. ‘Conceptualizing Change in the World System’: Towards a More Complex and Comprehensive Understanding of Peace and Conflict Research  5. Critical Realism and Interactive Conflict Transformation: Connecting Integrative Metatheory, Multi–dimensional Social Theory, and Transformative Practice  Part II: Expanding Our Scope  6.  Interactive Conflict Engagement 2.0: From Solving Problems to Enabling Systems to Sustain Peace  7. Individual Agency in Interactive Peacemaking: Insights from Georgian–South Ossetian Experience  8. Building a Human Infrastructure Across Conflict Lines for Reconciliation and Coexistence: The Case of Cyprus  9. Broadening the Use of Interactive Problem Solving  10. Addressing Persistent Fault Lines in Multi–Ethnic States: Using Inter– and Intra–group Dialogues on Widening Identities and Narratives, Commemoration and Minority Rights  Part III: Evolving Our Focus  11. Exploring Reconciliation’s Identity Paradoxes  12. Moving Beyond Dichotomies of Narratives and Identity: The Transformative Process of Dialogue  13. Acknowledging, Understanding, and Adapting to the Complexity of Radical Disagreement  14. Engaging in the Face of Non–Negotiability: From Resolution to Transformation  15. Learning to Accommodate Others’ Worldviews  16. Applying a Complex Systems Lens to Interactive Conflict Resolution: Themes and Lessons

O autorze

Tamra Pearson d’Estrée is Professor of Conflict Resolution in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA. She is co-author, with Bonnie G. Colby, of Braving the Currents: Evaluating Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West (2004), co-editor, with Ruth Parsons, of Cultural Encounters and Emergent Practices in Conflict Resolution Capacity-Building (2018), and editor of New Directions in Peacebuilding Evaluation (2019).