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Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
by Mohamed Rabie. 234 pgs.

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This book follows an approach that combines the viewpoints of both the realists and the idealists in dealing with the issues of conflict and peace. The ideas, models, and peace processes it proposes take into consideration the imperatives of real life without abandoning the dreams of a more peaceful and just world. The shared homeland model, as developed here, provides hope that ethnic conflict can be resolved in a manner that satisfies a group's need for recognition and cultural particularism, as well as its need for economic development, security, and regional activity. The book also defines and integrates steps of political conflict resolution into one theory that produces one of the first textbooks on the subject.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Conflict and Peace

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Chapter Two: Roots of Conflict

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Chapter Three: Conflict Management

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Chapter Four: The Peace Process

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Chapter Five: Political Dialogue

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Chapter Six: Negotiation

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Chapter Seven: Mediation

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Chapter Eight: Ethnicity and Conflict

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Chapter Nine: The Shared Homeland Model

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Chapter Ten: Conflict and Change

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Selected Bibliography

Index

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Conflict Resolution: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
by Kevin Avruch, Peter W. Black, Joseph A. Scimecca. 244 pgs.

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This unique collection of comparable case studies addresses the need to assess modes of conflict resolution in a larger sociocultural context with attention to varying approaches and cultural perspectives. Editors Avruch, Black, and Scimecca, along with other anthropologists and sociologists, propose and test different propositions, while looking toward a general theory of conflict and conflict resolution. They offer a broad range of vantage points for considering conflict resolution in five different cultures. Conflict resolution is seen as an emerging discipline.

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Foreword

1: Culture and Conflict Resolution

2: Conflict Resolution in the United States: The Emergence of a Profession?

3: Harmony Models and the Construction of Law

4: Tertius Luctans: Idiocosm, Caricature, and Mask

5: Interpersonal Conflict Management Styles of Jordanian Managers

6: Conflict Resolution and Moral Community among the Dou Donggo

7: Surprised by Common Sense

8: Of Nets, Nails, and Problems

9: Rhetoric, Reality, and Resolving Conflicts: Disentangling in a Solomon Islands Society

10: Ho'Oponopono: Straightening Family Relationships in Hawaii

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Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence
by Douglas P. Fry, Kaj Bjorkqvist. 274 pgs.

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Dedication

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Foreword

Preface

Contributors

Part I: Introduction and Theoretical Considerations

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1: Introduction- Conflict-Resolution Themes

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2: Culture and Conflict-Resolution Models: Exploring Alternatives to Violence

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3: The Inevitability of Conflict but Not of Violence: Theoretical Considerations on Conflict and Aggression

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Part II: Cultural Influences and Conflict Resolution

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4: Conflict Life Cycles in Occident and Orient

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5: A Community of Interests: Semai Conflict Resolution

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6: Conflict Avoidance and Resolution Among the Toraja of South Sulawesi, Indonesia

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7: Conflict Resolution in Native Margariteño Society

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8: Leaving Anger Outside the Kava Circle: a Setting for Conflict Resolution in Tonga

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Part III: The Challenge of Resolving Ethnic Conflict

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9: The Eye of the Storm: from War to Peace -- Examples from Sri Lanka and Mozambique

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10: Avoidance Strategies in Northern Ireland

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11: Historiography and Islamic Vocabulary in War and Peace: a Memento for Conflict Resolution in the Muslim World

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12: Conflict Resolution in a Highly Stressful Society: the Case of Israel

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13: Beyond the Competition of Tears: Black-Jewish Conflict Containment in a New York Neighborhood

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Part IV: Conflict Resolution as an Alternative to War

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14: Esquipulas Ii: the Management of a Regional Crisis

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15: Cooperation in Conflict: the Latin American Diplomatic Style of Cooperation in the Face of Foreign Threats

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16: Nonviolent Conflict Resolution and Civic Culture: the Case of Czechoslovakia

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Part V: Socialization for Conflict Resolution

17: Sex Differences in Styles of Conflict Resolution: a Developmental and Cross Cultural Study with Data from Finland, Israel, Italy, and Poland

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18: A Cognitive-Ecological Approach to the Prevention and Mitigation of Violence and Aggression in Inner-City Youth

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19: Tackling Peer Victimization with a School-Based Intervention Program

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Part VI: Conclusions

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20: On Respecting Others and Preventing Hate: a Conversation with Elie Wiesel

21: Conclusions: Alternatives to Violence

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Author Index

Subject Index
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Containing Ethnic Conflict, in Foreign Policy
by Charles William Maynes. 19 pgs.

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The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies: A Report of the Bertelsmann Foundation to the Club of Rome
by Peter L. Berger. 396 pgs.

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This book, edited by renowned sociologist Peter Berger, is an important contribution to understanding the cultural fault lines that threaten social cohesion.

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Preface

Preface

Introduction

1: The American Culture War

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2: The Past in the Present: Redefining Laïcité in Multicultural France

3: Normative Conflicts in Germany: Basic Consensus, Changing Values, and Social Movements

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4: Uncertain Ghosts: Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary

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5: Revolution from the Top and Horizontal Mediation: The Case of Chile's Transition to Democracy

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6: South Africa: Normative Conflicts, Social Cohesion, and Mediating Institutions

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7: Some Notes on Normative Conflicts in Turkey

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8: Islamic Tolerance: The Struggle for a Pluralist Ethics in Contemporary Indonesia

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10: Normative Conflicts in Japan

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11: Normative Conflicts in Contemporary Taiwan

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Conclusion: General Observations on Normative Conflicts and Mediation

Executive Summaries

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Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Pressures and Incentives for Cooperation
by Donald Rothchild. 344 pgs.

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THE BROOKING INSTITUTION

Foreword

Acknowledgments

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1: African State Management of Ethnic Conflict

Part One: Regularized Patterns of Relations

2: Structuring Incentives for Internal Conflict Management

3: The Effect of Regimes on Conflict

Part Two: Third-Party Mediation of Violent Conflict

4: The Use of Coercive and Noncoercive Incentives

5: Constructing a Conflict Management System in Angola, 1989-97

6: Reconstructing a Conflict Management System in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe

7: Facilitating Regime Transformation in South Africa

8: Coalition Efforts to Repair Internal Conflict Management in Sudan, 1971-72

9: Mediators' Uses of Pressures and Incentives

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Chinese Conflict Management and Resolution
by Guo-Ming Chen, Ringo Ma. 346 pgs.

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Preface

Part I: Cultural and Philosophical Foundations of Chinese Conflict Management

1: The Impact of Harmony on Chinese Conflict Management

2: The Concept of Yuan and Chinese Conflict Resolution

3: Li: A Dynamic Cultural Mechanism of Social Interaction and Conflict Management

4: A Small Country with Few People: Metaphors from Taoism and the Modification of Mediator Behavior

Part II: Chinese Conflict Management in Interpersonal and Group Contexts

5: A Thematic Analysis of the 20th Century Classical Chinese Fairy-Tales Collection

6: Conflict Management in China's Only-Child Families: Situations and Strategies

7: Rhetorical Strategies and Media Roles in the Case of Public Figures' Interpersonal Conflict Management

8: Six Ideas, Interpersonal Conflict, and Philosophical Taoism

Part III: Chinese Conflict Management in an Organizational Context

9: Cultural Values and Conflict Resolution in Enterprises in Diverse Cultural Settings in China

10: A Comparison of Taiwanese and American Samples on Rhetorical Sensitivity and Conflict Style

11: Collaboration over Avoidance: Conflict Management Strategies in State-Owned Enterprises in China

12: Conflict Resolution Strategies in State-Owned Enterprises in China

Part IV: Chinese Conflict Management in the Political Context

13: Sources of Chinese Conflict Management in International Affairs

14: Political Culture and Political Conflict in China

15: The Power of Words: Political Slogans as Leverage in Conflict and Conflict Management during China's Cultural Revolution Movement

16: Dueling Media: Symbolic Conflict in China's Falun Gong Suppression Campaign

Part V: Chinese Conflict Management and Negotiation

17: Negotiation within Chinese Culture: The PRC versus Taiwan

18: Chinese Mediation and Its Cultural Foundation

19: Her Talks in Conflict Management: An Exploratory Study of Chinese Women's Negotiating Behavior

20: Perceptions of Fairness and Power in Negotiation and Mediation: Chinese versus Americans

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Peace Culture: The Problem of Managing Human Difference, in Cross Currents
by Elise Boulding. 13 pgs.

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Conflict Management Style: Accounting for Cross-National Differences, in Journal of International Business Studies
by Michael W. Morris, Katherine Y. Williams, Kwok Leung, Richard Larrick, M. Teresa Mendoza, Deepti Bhatnagar, Jianfeng Li, Mari Kondo, Jin-Lian Luo, Jun-Chen Hu. 2 pgs.

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