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Violence and Its Alternatives: An Interdisciplinary Reader
Palgrave Macmillan, 1999
it is an indispensable book on violence and nonviolence
+ A comprehensive examination at cross-cultural violences.
This marvellously edited book by Dr. steger is a wonderful reader on understanding violence and nonviolence. If you want to understand how our history has been shaped by violence and non-violence, this is a must read. All the great writings in the book are written by great theorists like Arendt ...
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Real World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-Researchers (Regional Surveys of the ...
Colin Robson
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002
A review of Real World Research
As the title suggests, this book is for researchers faced with 'real world' challenges like limited time, money and the need to address a presenting problem or issue. Its chapters cover everything from how to write a research proposal to getting your research published and acting on your ...
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Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict
Beth Roy
University of California Press, 1994
A truly remarkable book
+ FASCINATING ORIGINAL WORK
This is an academic study of social conflict. The author investigated a previously unreported riot in what is today the country of Bangladesh, though at the time of the riot was East Pakistan. Her methodology was to talk in detail to persons involved to understand what happened, and perhaps more ...
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The Mediation Process: Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict
Christopher W. Moore
Jossey-Bass, 2003
Great.
This book was great and exactly how it was described in the review. I received it at a fast pace.
Thanks.
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Managing Public Disputes: A Practical Guide for Professionals in Government, Business and Citizen's Groups
Susan L. Carpenter, W. J. D. Kennedy
Jossey-Bass, 2001
For more than a decade, Managing Public Disputes has been the first choice, hands-on guide for managers, offering useful instructions for handling a wide range of large and small public controversies from the national to the community level. It includes: * Ten proven principles for managing conflict * A comprehensive framework with step-by-step procedures for creating productive outcomes ...
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Communicating Across Cultures
Stella Ting-Toomey
The Guilford Press, 1999
Great Theoretical Approach
The purpose of this book is to provide a theorectical approach to intercultural communication, and not so much a sequence of exercises for better intercultural communication. Actually, if you want the latter approach, Ting-Toomey's book "Understanding Intercultural Communication," which she ...
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Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformations of Deadly Conflict
Hugh Miall, Oliver Ramsbotham, ...
Polity Press, 1999
Best summary available
+ supplemental reading
This book does for the field what Mitchell's "The Structure of International Conflict" did so brilliantly years ago -- it compiles, condenses, and examines the breadth of the field, hitting key topics in a short space without sacrificing depth. I recommend it highly as an introduction to the field ...
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Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution : Tools for Powerful Groups and Communities
E. Franklin Dukes, Marina A. Piscolish, ...
Jossey-Bass, 2000
Excellent guidance for anyone invloved with large groups
+ Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution
Frank Dukes, Marina Piscolish, and John Stephens have successfully collaborated on a book that takes a frank and honest look at what facilitators do in groups and how to do it better. The book is remarkably readable and has instant applicability not only to those of us in the business of ...
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The MOVE Crisis In Philadelphia: Extremist Groups and Conflict Resolution
Hizkias Assefa
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990
In 1985, police bombed the Philadelphia community occupied by members of the black counterculture group MOVE (short for “The Movement”). What began fifteen years earlier as a neighborhood squabble provoked by conflicting lifestyles ended in the destruction of sixty-one homes and the death of eleven residents - five of them children. Some 250 people were left homeless. Was this ...
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Social Conflict: Escalation, Stalemate, and Settlement (3rd Edition)
Dean Pruitt, Jeffrey Z Rubin, ...
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2003
recommended CR reading
+ Great book for referral to origins of intergroup conflict.
This is a very comprehensive survey of conflict resolution theory. The bulk of the work focuses on conflict escalation and stalemate, leaving a noticeably smaller section on settlement at the very end. The information is readily applicable to analysis of community and international disputes. ...
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Mindful Inquiry in Social Research
Valerie Malhotra Bentz, Jeremy J. Shapiro
Sage Publications, Inc, 1998
A scholarly research text written with beauty and clarity.
+ original and re-direct research inquiry
+ A "must" read for any researcher- Amateur or beginner!
+ Not just for researchers - Leaders & consultants read on.
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The Functions of Social Conflict: An Examination of the Concept of Social Conflict and Its Use in Empirical ...
Lewis A. Coser
Free Press, 1964
You say "conflict" like it's a bad thing . . .
This stimulating work explores the paradoxical thesis that conflict is not socially destructive in most cases, but rather an essential mechanism in the positive evolution of society. I am not well versed in the literature of sociology, but it appears to me that since its appearance in 1956, this ...
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher, William L. Ury
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991
One of the best books ever written on negotiation
+ A Book Needed by Every Manager in Business
+ Good book to gain knowledge on doing negotiation
+ Good introduction on negotiation
+ Fast Delivery
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Basic Interviewing Skills
Raymond L. Gorden
Waveland Press, 1998
Interviewing skills are not simple motor skills. Rather, they involve a high-order combination of observation, empathic sensitivity, and intellectual judgment. This guidebook, now available from Waveland Press, provides a process model and a corresponding set of classroom-tested exercises designed to improve basic interviewing skills. The model--called the Skill Learning Cycle--provides an ...
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The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide
Bernard S. Mayer
Jossey-Bass, 2000
The Essentials of Conflict and its Resolution
+ Mayer's Conflict Resolution primer
+ Liked it...
+ Practical and well written
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