Gandhi's Way - A Handbook of Conflict Resolution

Name: Gandhi's Way - A Handbook of Conflict Resolution
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ISBN: 9780520244979

ISBN-10: 0520244974

ISBN-13: 9780520244979

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Mark Juergensmeyer

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Gandhi's Way provides a primer of Mahatma Gandhi's principles of moral action and conflict resolution and offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach that can be used in any conflict---at home or in business; in local, national, or international arenas. This invaluable handbook, updated with a new preface and a new case study on terrorism in Northern Ireland, sets out Gandhi's basic methods and illustrates them with practical examples. Juergensmeyer shows how parties at odds can rise above a narrow view of self-interest to find resolutions that are satisfying and beneficial to all involved. He then pits Gandhi's ideas against those of other great social thinkers in a series of imaginary…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 185
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface to the Revised Edition



The Gandhian Fight



Fighting a Gandhian Fight



Why Fight at All?



How Do You Know When You're Right?



Violence: The Breakdown of a Fight



What to Do with a Recalcitrant Opponent



The Weapon: The Goal Itself



The Power of Noncooperation



Fighting a Very Big Fight



How Do You Know When You've Won?



Some Basic Rules



Case Studies


Looking At Cases



A Family Feud



The Endangered Employees



A Lonely Decision



A Peaceful End to Irish Terrorism



A Tragic Resistance



Some Small Quarrels


Conversations in the Mind



Can Violence Ever Be Justified? -Gandhi v. Marx



Can Anger Be True? -Gandhi v. Freud



Is a Force of Love Realistic? -Gandhi v. Niebuhr



Was Gandhi Always a Gandhian? -Mohandas v. the Mahatma


The Issues That Remain


Notes


Index


Diagrams


Ways of Resolving a Conflict


Steps in the Process of Satyagraha


A Tally Sheet for a Search for Truth


Steps in Waging a Large Campaign