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

by H. Saunders

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312293383
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/17/2001
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

HAROLD H. SAUNDERS is Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Personal Essay: The Human and Intellectual Roots of Sustained Dialogue Acknowledgements Introduction: The Challenges of Conflict and Peace in the Citizens' Century The Peace Process: A Conceptual Framework Changing Conflictual Relationships Citizens' Politics in Civil Society International Relationships across Permeable Borders The Dialogue Process Sustained Dialogue: A Public Peace Process The Inter-Tajik Dialogue Baton Rouge: Dialogue on Race Relations: William Jefferson Day, Jan Bernard, Fred Jeff Smith Bridging the Abyss: Palestinian-Israeli Women's Dialogues; Galia Golan and Zahira Kamal Evaluating Sustained Dialogue Sustained Dialogue: A Public Space for Learning Appendix: Sustained Dialogue in Practice Suggested Readings

Editorial Reviews

A must-read for people involved in dispute resolution.
-Bulletin of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East

This is a good book for conflict resolution practitioners involved in public policy and peace studies.
-The Texas Mediator

From the Publisher

A former US diplomat who helped negotiate the Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty, offers people outside of government a systematic approach to reducing deep-seeded tensions that are not responsive to formal, external mediation and negotiation. He explains that a sustained dialogue provides space in which issues of identity, fear, historical grievance, and injustice can gradually be resolved. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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