Culture and Conflict Resolution

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ISBN: 9781878379825

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ISBN-13: 9781878379825

Edition: 1998

Authors: Kevin Avruch

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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…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press (USIP Press)
Publication date: 11/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
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.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Concept of Culture: A Very Brief History


An Approach to Culture


Inadequate Ideas of Culture


Thinking about Culture


Thinking about Social Conflict - and "Resolution"


Realism and the Absence of Culture in International Relations Theory


Political Culture and National Character


Culture in International Relations Theory: Cognitivist Approaches


Culture and Negotiation


Culture and International Negotiation: Some Skeptics


Culture and the Problem of Power


Conceptualizing Cultural Difference


Emic Approaches


Etic Approaches


Combining Emic and Etic Approaches


Rational Choice and Gaming


Bargaining and Negotiation


Third-Party Processes and Roles


The Problem-Solving Workshop and Conflict Resolution


Culture and Problem-Solving Workshops: More Skeptics


Reframing the Problem-Solving Workshop


"Restricted" Conflict Resolution and the Future of the Enterprise


Conclusions: Some Notes for Trainers and Practitioners


Notes


Bibliography


Index