How to Resolve a Conflict: Principles, Practice and Procedure in Conflict Resolution: The Mediator's Manual

by Olajide Olagunju

Overview

How to Resolve a Conflict "explains the mediation process and includes information that is not often discussed in writings in this area of study. The book both explains and summarizes the positive, beneficial aspects of mediation as an alternative to litigation, arbitration and other forms of legal settlement, which can often lead to antagonistic outcomes. [It] gives good explanations and examples of how and why mediation allows for the possibility of satisfactory results for both sides, laying the groundwork for opportunities that can grow out of the fertile soil of amicable resolution. The approach of emphasizing how mediation helps to focus on a solution, rather than the strengths and weaknesses of a case was most effective, as it assists the reader in better understanding why it is important, and how it is possible to gain mutually agreeable solutions."
- Ambassador John W. McDonald, Co-author, Multi-Track Diplomacy. Chairman, Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy. (Adapted from review of previous edition)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855690798
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	12/26/2023
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Professor Olajide Olagunju, PhD, FCIArb, FICMC, Attorney-at-Law
Winner, Best Mediation Books of All Time
Professor Olajide Olagunju is a multilingual anthropologist, peace scholar, lawyer, arbitrator and mediator. 2008 Harvard University Research Fellow and Brandeis University Research Scholar in Niger Delta Conflict Resolution, Professor Olagunju is a 2005 Mellon Research Scholar in Management of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Inter-University Committee on International Migration. 2001 US Government International Visitor in Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution; UN-Austrian Government Scholar in International Civilian Peacekeeping, Peace Building, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, 2000; and British Government Chevening Scholar in Emerging Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), 1995, Professor Olagunju has over 50 publications in 27 languages, which includes Management of Internal Displacement in Nigeria – MIT 2006; How to Resolve a Conflict (Winner, Best Mediation Books of All Time), and How God Resolves Conflict - Journal of Conflict Studies (JOCS) 2023. Professor Olagunju teaches Conflict Resolution at Bakke Graduate University Dallas, Texas and the Université de l'Alliance Chrétienne d'Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, amongst others. He has consulted for the World Bank, the United Nations, and several governments, including the Government of Nigeria, where his counsel broke the logjam in electricity privatization in December 2012.