Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions

This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman.

Autorentext

Tamra Pearson d'Estrée is Professor of Conflict Resolution in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA. She is co-author, with Bonnie G. Colby, of Braving the Currents: Evaluating Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West (2004), a co-editor, with Ruth Parsons, of Cultural Encounters and Emergent Practices in Conflict Resolution Capacity-Building (2018), and the editor of New Directions in Peacebuilding Evaluation (2019).

Inhalt

Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 2. Interactive Conflict Transformation through a Complexity Lens: Local Actors, Interaction, and the Dynamics of Change 3. Kelman's Theoretical Brilliance: Complete Social Psychologist and Consummate Conflict Resolution Scholar-Practitioner 4. 'Conceptualizing Change in the World System': Towards a More Complex and Comprehensive Understanding of Peace and Conflict Research 5. Critical Realism and Interactive Conflict Transformation: Connecting Integrative Metatheory, Multi-dimensional Social Theory, and Transformative Practice 6. Interactive Conflict Engagement 2.0: From Solving Problems to Enabling Systems to Sustain Peace 7. Individual Agency in Interactive Peacemaking: Insights from Georgian-South Ossetian Experience 8. Building a Human Infrastructure Across Conflict Lines for Reconciliation and Coexistence: The Case of Cyprus 9. Broadening the Use of Interactive Problem Solving 10. Addressing Persistent Fault Lines in Multi-Ethnic States: Using Inter- and Intra-group Dialogues on Widening Identities and Narratives, Commemoration and Minority Rights 11. Exploring Reconciliation's Identity Paradoxes 12. Moving Beyond Dichotomies of Narratives and Identity: The Transformative Process of Dialogue 13. Acknowledging, Understanding, and Adapting to the Complexity of Radical Disagreement 14. Engaging in the Face of Non-Negotiability: From Resolution to Transformation 15. Learning to Accommodate Others' Worldviews 16. Applying a Complex Systems Lens to Interactive Conflict Resolution: Themes and Lessons