Conflict Resolution Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Name: Conflict Resolution Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780275964429

ISBN-10: 0275964426

ISBN-13: 9780275964429

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Authors: Kevin Avruch, Peter W. Black, Joseph A. Scimecca

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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, together with other anthropologists and sociologists, propose and test different propositions, while looking toward a general theory of conflict and conflict resolution. Their joint effort should be of real interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, indeed to all those concerned with ethnic studies and ethnoconflict today. The contributors examine different theoretical concepts and approaches to conflict resolution in five…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 7/23/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Kevin Avruch is the Henry Hart Rice Professor of conflict resolution and professor of anthropology at The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and senior fellow in the Peace Operations Policy Program, at George Mason University. He is the author, among other works, of Culture and Conflict Resolution.



Series


Foreword


Introduction: Culture and Conflict Resolution



Conflict Resolution in the United States


The Emergence of a Profession?



Harmony Models and the Construction of Law



Tertius Luctans


Idiocosm, Caricature and Mask



Interpersonal Conflict Management Styles of Jordanian Managers



Conflict Resolution and Moral Community among the Dou Donggo (Indonesia) Peter


Just Surprised by Common Sense


Local Understandings and the Management of Conflict on Tobi, Republic of Belau



Of Nets, Nails, and Problems


A Folk Language of Conflict Resolution in a Central American Setting



Rhetoric, Reality and Resolving Conflicts


Disentangling in a Solomon Islands Society



Ho'oponopono


Straightening Family Relationships in Hawaii



Selected Bibliography


Index