A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts

A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts
ISBN-10
0312299397
ISBN-13
9780312299392
Category
Political Science
Pages
343
Language
English
Published
1999-04-14
Publisher
Springer
Author
H. Saunders

Description

Many of the deep-rooted human conflicts that seize our attention today are not ready for formal mediation and negotiation. People do not negotiate about identity, fear, historic grievance, and injustice. Sustained dialogue provides a space where citizens outside government can change their conflictual relationships. Governments can negotiate binding agreements and enforce and implement them, but only citizens can change human relationships. Governments have long had their tools of diplomacy - mediation, negotiation, force, and allocation of resources. Harold H. Saunders' A Public Peace Process provides citizens outside government with their own instrument for transforming conflict. Saunders outlines a systematic approach for citizens to use in reducing racial, ethnic, and other deep-rooted tensions in their countries, communities, and organizations.

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