The Little Books of Justice & Peacemaking is a great series of books that convey key arenas of scholarship, theory, and methodology in manageable sizes (about 100 pages each book or 1/2…
Tag: Mediation
Quick Review: Preparing For Peace
As I have been working through many of the books of Peace Studies scholar-practitioner John Paul Lederach, here’s one from the late 90’s. Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures, as the…
Quick Review: The Little Book of Conflict Transformation
This fall one of my academic goals was to immerse myself in the work of John Paul Lederach, one of the giant voices as a scholar and practitioner in the realm of…
Quick Review: Culture & Conflict Resolution
I recently read Culture & Conflict Resolution by Kevin Avruch. This book is from the international negotiations realm but has some really good content on how to understand culture, identity, and conflict that extends into a lot…
Quick Review: Restoring Justice
I read a few weeks back Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice by Daniel W. Van Ness and Karen Heetderks Strong as one of several different peacemaking systems I’ve been reading…
Quick Review: Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific
I have been reading Bruce E. Barnes’ Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific and found it unbelievably helpful as one who has been working in Asian contexts for the last decade…
Quick Review: Conflict Coaching
I’ve been working through the textbook Conflict Coaching: Conflict Management Strategies and Skills for the Individual by Tricia S. Jones and Ross Brinkert over the past few weeks. It was written about 15 years ago…