Culture & Conflict Resolution

By - Avruch, Kevin

Floor - Floor 1

Published - United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, D.C., 1998

ISBN 10 - 1878379828

ISBN 13 - 9781878379825

Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Conflict management

Shelf No - 13

Call Number - 303.69 AVR

Physical Description - xv, 153 pages ; 23 cm

Notes - Includes Index

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After years of relative neglect, culture is finally receiving due recognition as a key factor in the evolution and resolution of conflicts. Unfortunately, however, when theorists and practitioners of conflict resolution speak of culture, they often understand and use it in a bewildering and unhelpful variety of ways. With sophistication and lucidity, "Culture and Conflict Resolution" exposes these shortcomings and proposes an alternative conception in which culture is seen as dynamic and derivative of individual experience. The book explores divergent theories of social conflict and differing strategies that shape the conduct of diplomacy, and examines the role that culture has (and has not) played in conflict resolution. The author is as forceful in critiquing those who would dismiss or diminish culture s relevance as he is trenchant in advocating conflict resolution approaches that make the most productive use of a coherent concept of culture. In a lively style, Avruch challenges both scholars and practitioners not only to develop a clearer understanding of what culture is, but also to take that understanding and incorporate it into more effective conflict resolution processes."

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