Conflict Resolution
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Conflict Resolution
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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Description
This unique collection of comparable case studies addresses the need to assess modes of conflict resolution in a larger sociocultural context with attention to varying approaches and cultural perspectives. Editors Avruch, Black, and Scimecca, together with other anthropologists and sociologists, propose and test different propositions, while looking toward a general theory of conflict and conflict resolution. Their joint effort should be of real interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, indeed to all those concerned with ethnic studies and ethnoconflict today.
The contributors examine different theoretical concepts and approaches to conflict resolution in five different cultures, American, Arab, Asian, Latin American, and Pacific societies. The interdisciplinary study offers a broad range of vantage points for considering interpersonal, community, institutional, and national problems. The authors analyze concepts of personhood, the role of power and authority, ethical values, and methods for negotiating differences, and conflict resolution as an emerging discipline.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Culture and Conflict Resolution by Kevin Avruch
Conflict Resolution in the United States: The Emergence of a Profession? by Joseph A. Scimecca
Harmony Models and the Construction of Law by Laura Nader
Tertius Luctans: Idiocosm, Caricature and Mask by F. G. Bailey
Interpersonal Conflict Management Styles of Jordanian Managers by Kamil Kozan
Conflict Resolution and Moral Community among the Dou Donggo (Indonesia) by Peter Just
Surprised by Common Sense: Local Understandings and the Management of Conflict on Tobi, Republic of Belau by Peter W. Black
Of Nets, Nails, and Problems: A Folk Language of Conflict Resolution in a Central American Setting by John Paul Lederach
Rhetoric, Reality and Resolving Conflicts: Disentangling in a Solomon Islands Society by Geoffrey M. White
Ho'oponopono: Straightening Family Relationships in Hawaii by E. Victoria Shook and Leonard Ke'ala Kwan
Selected Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 30 Nov 1991 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9780313257964 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Series | Contributions in Ethnic Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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