Building upon Mitchell’s earlier work, The Structure of International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving insoluble disputes.
Table of Content
Foreword 1. Compulsion; Natural Born Killers? 2. Formation: Sources and Emergence 3. Classification; Intractable Conflicts 4. Perpetuation; Dynamics and Intractability 5. Prevention 6. Mitigation 7. Regulation: Conflict Within Limits 8. Institutionalisation 9. Termination I: Keeping the Peace 10. Termination II: Resolving the Issues 11. Creation; Towards Transformation 12. Reconciliation; Ending the Hatred Afterword
About the author
Christopher Mitchell is an Emeritus Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA. He has written extensively on informal mediation, track two facilitation and local level peace-building. In 1981 he published one of the first ever textbooks in the field, The Structure of International Conflict, to which this volume is a follow up.
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