Conflict Difference and Resolution

by Brigg, Morgan; Richmond, Oliver P.

• ISBN13: 9780230547100
• ISBN10: 0230547109
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book shows that the conflict resolution field often denies difference even as it attempts to implement a progressive and responsive politics. Innovative theoretical analysis suggests ways of responding anew across difference and beyond dominant ways of thinking about political community and conflict.

Author Biography

MORGAN BRIGG is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research explores questions of culture, governance and selfhood in conflict resolution, development studies and political theory.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The conflict resolution field	p. 3
The difference challenge	p. 6
Bringing difference to bear	p. 12
Detailed overview	p. 15
Ordering Difference
The Culture Challenge	p. 25
From behavior to meaning	p. 28
The culture question expanded	p. 31
Culture at the limit	p. 34
Colonial encounters	p. 35
The culture challenge with Kevin Avruch	p. 39
Culture without Cultures	p. 43
Possibilities of relatedness?	p. 46
Conclusion	p. 48
Governing Difference	p. 50
Mapping cultural governance	p. 52
Norms for governance	p. 58
Facilitative governance	p. 63
Normalization	p. 64
Confessional problem-solving	p. 68
Facilitating rational selves	p. 71
Governance achieved?	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 77
Sovereign Selves	p. 79
Sovereign knowledge and the subordination of difference	p. 82
Facilitating liberal governance: Sovereign self, sovereign state	p. 91
Fissured sovereignty	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 100
Exploring Relatedness
Recognition and Relatedness	p. 105
Cosmopolitan conflict resolution	p. 107
The risks of recognition	p. 110
Recognizing selves	p. 112
Relatedness: Complementing recognition	p. 118
Relatedness: Beyond sovereignty?	p. 120
Conclusion	p. 128
Responding Anew	p. 130
Selves as resources	p. 132
Becoming-other	p. 135
Beyond reflexivity	p. 137
Avoiding self-indulgence	p. 140
Responsive complexity	p. 143
Networked relationality	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 154
Ordering difference	p. 155
Toward a new politics?	p. 159
Notes	p. 165
Bibliography	p. 194
Index	p. 208
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