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From conflict resolution to reconciliation / edited by Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: xii, 289 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195166434
  • 9780195166439
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.69 21
LOC classification:
  • HM1126 .F76 2004
Contents:
Introduction: Why Reconciliation? / Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov -- 1. The Nature of Reconciliation as an Outcome and as a Process / Daniel Bar-Tal and Gemma H. Bennink -- 2. Reconciliation: Reflections on the Theoretical and Practical Utility of the Term / Tamar Hermann -- 3. Dialectics between Stable Peace and Reconciliation / Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov -- 4. Comparing Reconciliation Actions within and between Countries / Louis Kriesberg -- 5. Reconciliation as Identity Change: A Social-Psychological Perspective / Herbert C. Kelman -- 6. Leadership and Reconciliation / David Bargal and Emmanuel Sivan -- 7. The Role of Forgiveness in Reconciliation / Yehudith Auerbach -- 8. Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations / Raymond Cohen -- 9. Ritual and the Politics of Reconciliation / Marc Howard Ross -- 10. Social-Cognitive Mechanisms in Reconciliation / Ifat Maoz -- 11. Will the Parties Conciliate or Refuse? The Triangle of Jews, Germans, and Palestinians / Dan Bar-On.
Summary: "This volume represents an important new step forward in the fields of conflict resolution and peace studies. Its essays argue that, while conflict resolution is well equipped to bring about temporary settlements and brief periods of peace in volatile situations, conventional conflict resolution techniques are not capable of building long-term stability. Instead, the authors contend, practitioners of conflict resolution need to focus more on reconciliation (the restoration of confidence, friendship, and harmony between rivals) than on mere conflict resolution. Whereas traditional conflict resolution has focused primarily on halting quarrels with agreements between leaders on each side of a conflict, reconciliation techniques shift the focus in two ways. First, they take more of a grassroots approach, building agreement among the members of rival communities, not only between leaders. Second, reconciliation takes a long-term view of dispute resolution. While the authors acknowledge that the role of traditional conflict resolution is important in stopping violence and tension, they argue that, in order to achieve stable peace, negotiators and practitioners of conflict resolution must focus much more on what is to be done after an agreement among leaders is reached."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.

Introduction: Why Reconciliation? / Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov -- 1. The Nature of Reconciliation as an Outcome and as a Process / Daniel Bar-Tal and Gemma H. Bennink -- 2. Reconciliation: Reflections on the Theoretical and Practical Utility of the Term / Tamar Hermann -- 3. Dialectics between Stable Peace and Reconciliation / Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov -- 4. Comparing Reconciliation Actions within and between Countries / Louis Kriesberg -- 5. Reconciliation as Identity Change: A Social-Psychological Perspective / Herbert C. Kelman -- 6. Leadership and Reconciliation / David Bargal and Emmanuel Sivan -- 7. The Role of Forgiveness in Reconciliation / Yehudith Auerbach -- 8. Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations / Raymond Cohen -- 9. Ritual and the Politics of Reconciliation / Marc Howard Ross -- 10. Social-Cognitive Mechanisms in Reconciliation / Ifat Maoz -- 11. Will the Parties Conciliate or Refuse? The Triangle of Jews, Germans, and Palestinians / Dan Bar-On.

"This volume represents an important new step forward in the fields of conflict resolution and peace studies. Its essays argue that, while conflict resolution is well equipped to bring about temporary settlements and brief periods of peace in volatile situations, conventional conflict resolution techniques are not capable of building long-term stability. Instead, the authors contend, practitioners of conflict resolution need to focus more on reconciliation (the restoration of confidence, friendship, and harmony between rivals) than on mere conflict resolution. Whereas traditional conflict resolution has focused primarily on halting quarrels with agreements between leaders on each side of a conflict, reconciliation techniques shift the focus in two ways. First, they take more of a grassroots approach, building agreement among the members of rival communities, not only between leaders. Second, reconciliation takes a long-term view of dispute resolution. While the authors acknowledge that the role of traditional conflict resolution is important in stopping violence and tension, they argue that, in order to achieve stable peace, negotiators and practitioners of conflict resolution must focus much more on what is to be done after an agreement among leaders is reached."--Publisher description.

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