Staying with Conflict A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes

by Mayer, Bernard S.

• ISBN13: 9780787997298
• ISBN10: 0787997293
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-03
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Winner of the 2009 CPR Award for Outstanding BookIn this groundbreaking book, Bernard Mayer, a pioneer in the field of conflict resolution, offers a new paradigm for dealing with long-term disputes. Mayer explains that when dealing with enduring conflict, mediators and other conflict resolution specialists need to move past the idea of how quickly they can resolve the conflict. Instead, they should focus on how they can help people prepare to engage with an issue over time. Once their attention is directed away from a speedy resolution to a long-term approach, new avenues of intervention become apparent.

Author Biography

Bernard Mayer, Ph.D., mediator, facilitator, trainer, and researcher, is a professor at the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Creighton University and a founding partner of CDR Associates, based in Boulder, Colorado. In addition, Mayer is the author of The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution and Beyond Neutrality.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
A New Direction for the Conflict Field	p. 1
Conflict and Engagement	p. 19
Escaping the Avoidance Trap	p. 55
Working the Conflict Narrative	p. 87
Communicating in Enduring Conflict	p. 119
Using Power and Escalation	p. 151
Agreements in Ongoing Conflict	p. 181
Taking a Sustainable Approach to Enduring Conflict	p. 207
Conflict Specialists and Enduring Conflict	p. 237
Epilogue: The Dynamic Nature of Enduring Conflict	p. 267
References	p. 273
About the Author	p. 281
Index	p. 283
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