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…
Tag: Reconciliation
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…
Quick Review: Negotiating the Non-Negotiable
The best of the negotiation books I’ve read this year has been Daniel Shapiro’s Negotiating the Non-Negotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts. Shapiro heads the Harvard International Negotiation Program and was…
Quick Review: Crucial Conversations
Among the negotiation books I have been going through the last month or two is Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High. There’s a lot on this one out on the…
Quick Review: How to Have That Difficult Conversation
Over the last few days I had a chance to read Henry Cloud and John Townsend’s How to Have That Difficult Conversation: Gaining the Skills for Honest and Meaningful Communication. This book formerly used to be…
Butt Friction
Matako ghawi ghaleka cha ku kwenthana (Two buttocks cannot avoid friction) —Malawian Proverb Niyi Gbade and John Becker start off their article “Buttocks, Bridges, and Kola Nuts”with this Malawian proverb in the…
Quick Review – Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas
I recently read David Cortright’s Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas as part of the Peace Studies PhD program I am currently in. I had not heard of the book prior, but it…