I have been slow to post a quick review of Amartya Sen’s Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, but I wanted to post just to draw some attention to it as most people…
Tag: multi-ethnic
Quick Review: The Culture Map
I’ve been going through Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done and I’ve found extremely helpful for me in my context. If you’re just stopping by, I’m…
Quick Review: In the Name of Identity
I read this really interesting book this week, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf. Maalouf is Lebanese but has spent much of his life in France….
Quick Review: Political Tribes
I got a chance to read Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua of Tiger Mom fame. Her realm of expertise is globalization and ethnic conflict, which is…
Quick Review: The Fire Next Time
I read James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time over the weekend and found it really powerful. I had wanted to read it for a while and have heard many people compare Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between…
Quick Review – Re-Centering: Culture & Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice
This month I’ve worked through the book Re-Centering: Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice by several editors and contributors. This is a book written from an ethnic minority perspective on contemporary negotiation…