Capturing The Complexity Of Conflict

Author : Dennis J. D. Sandole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134208979
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capturing the Complexity of Conflict written by Dennis J. D. Sandole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study reported in this volume is an attempt to develop a multilevel theory of violent conflict and war. As such, the study involves: a pretheory for identifying concepts operative at each level, and for explaining how the concepts relate to violent conflict and war.

Author : Dennis J. D. Sandole
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Total Pages : 299 pages
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Author : Dennis J. D. Sandole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134208901
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capturing the Complexity of Conflict written by Dennis J. D. Sandole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Lynn Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134408978
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education and Conflict written by Lynn Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's extensive research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship between schooling and social conflict and looks at conflict internal to schools. It posits a direct link between the ethos of a school and the attitudes of future citizens towards 'others'. It also looks at the nature and purpose of peace education and war education, and addresses the role of gender and masculinity. In five lucid, vigorously argued sections, the author brings this thought-provoking and original piece of work to life by: * Setting out the terms of the debate, defining conflict and peace and outlining the relevant aspects of complexity theory for education * Exploring the sources of conflict and their relations to schooling in terms of gender/masculinity, pluralism, nationalism and identity * Focusing on the direct education/war interface * Examining educational responses to conflict * Highlighting conflict resolution within the school itself. This is the first time that so many aspects of conflict and education have been brought together in one sustained argument. With its crucial exposure of the currently culpable role of formal schooling in maintaining conflict, this book will be a powerful and essential read for educational policy makers, managers, teachers and researchers dealing with conflict in their own contexts.

Author : Sandra I. Cheldelin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826495710
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict: 2nd Edition written by Sandra I. Cheldelin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-01-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this fully revised volume, a team of international experts with both academic and professional experience in the field, provide a broad range of geographical and disciplinary perspectives. Covering theory, research and practice, they analyze the different types of conflict and offer a thorough examination of the influences on conflict - structural, situational, strategic and cultural. Exploring conflict management and resolution, they also discuss negotiation, mediation, peace-keeping and peace-building.

Author : Timothy J. White
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299297039
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process written by Timothy J. White and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book incorporates recent research that emphasizes the need for civil society and a grassroots approach to peacebuilding while taking into account a variety of perspectives, including neoconservatism and revolutionary analysis. The contributions, which include the reflections of those involved in the negotiation and implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, also provide policy prescriptions for modern conflicts.

Author : Robin R. Vallacher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642352804
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations written by Robin R. Vallacher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict is inherent in virtually every aspect of human relations, from sport to parliamentary democracy, from fashion in the arts to paradigmatic challenges in the sciences, and from economic activity to intimate relationships. Yet, it can become among the most serious social problems humans face when it loses its constructive features and becomes protracted over time with no obvious means of resolution. This book addresses the subject of intractable social conflict from a new vantage point. Here, these types of conflict represent self-organizing phenomena, emerging quite naturally from the ongoing dynamics in human interaction at any scale—from the interpersonal to the international. Using the universal language and computational framework of nonlinear dynamical systems theory in combination with recent insights from social psychology, intractable conflict is understood as a system locked in special attractor states that constrain the thoughts and actions of the parties to the conflict. The emergence and maintenance of attractors for conflict can be described by means of formal models that incorporate the results of computer simulations, experiments, field research, and archival analyses. Multi-disciplinary research reflecting these approaches provides encouraging support for the dynamical systems perspective. Importantly, this text presents new views on conflict resolution. In contrast to traditional approaches that tend to focus on basic, short-lived cause-effect relations, the dynamical perspective emphasizes the temporal patterns and potential for emergence in destructive relations. Attractor deconstruction entails restoring complexity to a conflict scenario by isolating elements or changing the feedback loops among them. The creation of a latent attractor trades on the tendency toward multi-stability in dynamical systems and entails the consolidation of incongruent (positive) elements into a coherent structure. In the bifurcation scenario, factors are identified that can change the number and types of attractors in a conflict scenario. The implementation of these strategies may hold the key to unlocking intractable conflict, creating the potential for constructive social relations.

Author : Dennis J.D. Sandole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134145713
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace and Security in the Postmodern World written by Dennis J.D. Sandole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes how ‘postmodern’ conflict, such as the recent Balkan Wars, and the post-9/11 ‘new terrorism’ can be prevented and/or otherwise dealt with in the future.

Author : M.J. Apter
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9789026512025
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Reversal Theory written by M.J. Apter and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores some of the recent thinking in psychology along the lines that people are inherently inconsistent over time, and that the differences within an individual are as important as the differences among individuals. The 26 papers, most presented at conferences since 1988 (and many researchers hav

Author : Irwin Deutscher
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109939
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Ethnic Conflict written by Irwin Deutscher and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This renamed and revised paperback edition of Irwin Deutscher's Accommodating Diversity shares most of the book's original content but reframes the work with teachers and students in mind. Part social policy analysis and part intellectual autobiography, Preventing Ethnic Conflict mines the world's most troubling incidences of racial and ethnic conflict in order to find national policies that defuse the strains of cohabitation and encourage true reconciliation. Debunking the notion that conflict is inevitable when dominant and minority communities cohabit, Deutscher looks at five successful policies, from Swedish legislation dealing with immigrant education to the Chieftaincy act in Ghana, as he examines the possibilities for successful and harmonious intergroup relations. Deutscher concludes that the pursuit of a benign pluralist policy leads ultimately to assimilation, providing a political solution, which satisfies the champions of both diversity and unity. With introductory essays to each section written by Linda Lindsey that place the material within sociological theory, its problem solving focus, and provocative study questions, Preventing Ethnic Conflict is an ideal supplement for courses in race, ethnicity, and social problems.