Research Catalog

Title

The new politics of conflict resolution : responding to difference / Morgan Brigg.

Author

Brigg, Morgan, 1970-

Publication

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Details

Description

xi, 210 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Conflict resolution has come of age as a specialized and coherent field, but struggles to deal with cultural and other differences that fuel key conflicts of our time. This book critically engages conflict resolution's relationship with difference while sharing the field's commitment to responsive engagement to people in conflict. Critical analysis shows that enthusiasm for conflict resolution's practical possibilities unwittingly reinscribes dominant ways of thinking about political community, order, and conflict. This denies difference and orders it on liberal terms. Yet the practical commitment to responsiveness and personal engagement on the part of many conflict resolution scholars and practitioners also offers prospects for rethinking the field's relationship with difference. When combines with critical analysis at the limits of contemporary social science, engaged practice evokes vulnerability and responsiveness to difference. Drawing upon theoretical ideas of relatedness and connection, this book moves beyond dominant ways of thinking in conflict resolution toward possibilities for responding anew across difference."--Jacket

Series Statement

Rethinking peace and conflict studies

Uniform Title

Rethinking peace and conflict studies.

Subject

• Conflict management > Cross-cultural studies
• Culture conflict > Cross-cultural studies
• Conflict management
• Culture conflict
• Internationale conflicten
• Conflictmanagement
• Interculturele vergelijkingen (vorm)
• Culture
• Conflict resolution

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-207) and index.

Contents

The culture challenge -- Governing difference -- Sovereign selves -- Recognition and relatedness -- Responding anew.

ISBN

• 0230547109
• 9780230547100

LCCN

2008029968

OCLC

• ocn226357113
• 226357113
• SCSB-8804375

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library