Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

by Sandole, Dennis J. D.

• ISBN13: 9780415433952
• ISBN10: 0415433959
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This major new Handbook is a collection of work from leading scholars in the Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CAR) field. The central theme is the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis and resolution of conflicts.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xi
List of tables	p. xiii
Notes on contributors	p. xv
Foreword	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction: Conflict analysis and resolution as a multidiscipline: a work in progress	p. 1
Core concepts and theories	p. 17
The role of identity in conflict	p. 19
Encountering nationalism: the contribution of peace studies and conflict resolution	p. 32
Gender relations and conflict transformation among refugee women	p. 45
Causation as a core concept in conflict analysis	p. 59
The challenge of operationalizing key concepts in conflict resolution theory in international and subnational conflicts	p. 71
The enemy and the innocent in violent conflicts	p. 85
Identity conflicts: models of dynamics and early warning	p. 100
Generativity-based conflict: maturing microfoundations for Conflict theory	p. 116
Core approaches: conceptual and methodological	p. 129
Human agonistes: interdisciplinary inquiry into ontological agency and human conflict	p. 131
The ethnography of peace education: some lessons learned from Palestinian-Jewish integrated education in Israel	p. 144
Waging conflicts constructively	p. 157
A social-psychological approach to conflict analysis and resolution	p. 170
Building relational empathy through an interactive design process	p. 184
Building peace: storytelling to transform conflicts constructively	p. 201
A capacity-building approach to conflict resolution	p. 215
Gender mainstreaming: a valuable tool in building sustainable peace	p. 226
Culture theory, culture clash, and the practice of conflict resolution	p. 241
Conflict resolution: the missing link between liberal international relations theory and realistic practice	p. 256
Understanding the conflict-development nexus and the contribution of development cooperation to peacebuilding	p. 272
Evaluation in conflict resolution and peacebuilding	p. 286
Core practices: processes	p. 301
Conflict transformation: reasons to be modest	p. 303
Mediation frames/justice games	p. 315
Interactive conflict resolution: dialogue, conflict analysis, and problemsolving	p. 328
Mediation and international conflict resolution: analyzing structure and behavior	p. 339
Ethical and gendered dilemmas of moving from emergency response to development in "failed" states	p. 354
Memory retrieval and truth recovery	p. 369
Shifting from coherent toward holistic peace processes	p. 383
Law and legal processes in resolving international conflicts	p. 396
Alternative voices and complex intervention designs	p. 407
Restorative processes of peace and healing within the governing structures of the Rotinonshonni "Longhouse People"	p. 409
Critical systematic inquiry in conflict analysis and resolution: an essential bridge between theory and practice	p. 420
From diagnosis to treatment: toward new shared principles for Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding	p. 437
Strategies for the prevention, management, and/or resolution of (ethnic) crisis and conflict: the case of the Balkans	p. 456
The perception of economic assistance in Northern Ireland and its role in the peace process	p. 475
Conflict resolution in an age of empire: new challenges to an emerging field	p. 495
Conclusions	p. 509
Toward a conflictology: the quest for transdisciplinarity	p. 511
Revisiting the CAR field	p. 525
Epilogue: implications for theory, research, practice, and teaching	p. 531
Index	p. 535
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