Transforming Violent Conflict: Radical Disagreement, Dialogue and Survival

Transforming Violent Conflict: Radical Disagreement, Dialogue and Survival

by Oliver Ramsbotham
Transforming Violent Conflict: Radical Disagreement, Dialogue and Survival

Transforming Violent Conflict: Radical Disagreement, Dialogue and Survival

by Oliver Ramsbotham

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Overview

This book investigates intractable conflicts and their main verbal manifestation - radical disagreement – and explores what can be done when conflict resolution fails.

The book identifies agonistic dialogue - dialogue between enemies - as the key to linguistic intractability. It suggests how agonistic dialogue can best be studied, explored, understood and managed even in the most severe political conflicts when negotiation, mediation, problem solving, dialogue for mutual understanding, and discourse ethics are unsuccessful. This approach of viewing radical disagreement as the central topic of analysis and conflict management is a new innovation in this field, and also supplements and enhances existing communicative transformational techniques. It also has wider implications for cognate fields, such as applied ethics, democratic theory, cultural studies and the philosophy of difference.

This book will be of great interest to students of conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, ethnic conflict and International Relations in general.

Oliver Ramsbotham is Emeritus Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, UK, Chair of the Oxford Research Group, President of the Conflict Research Society and co-author of Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Conflict.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135165147
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/25/2010
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 274
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Oliver Ramsbotham is Emeritus Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, UK, Chair of the Oxford Research Group, President of the Conflict Research Society and co-author of Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Conflict.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Having the First Word  Part 1: Radical Disagreement and Conflict Intractability  1. Radical Disagreement and Discourse Analysis  2. Radical Disagreement and Conflict Analysis  3. Radical Disagreement and Conflict Resolution  Part 2: Taking Radical Disagreement Seriously  4. Methodology: Studying Agonistic Dialogue  5. Phenomenology: Exploring Agonistic Dialogue  6. Epistemology: Understanding Agonistic Dialogue  7. Praxis: Managing Agonistic Dialogue  8. Re-entry: Feeding back into Conflict Settlement and Conflict Transformation  Part 3: Radical Disagreement and the Future  9. Radical Disagreement and Human Difference  10. Radical Disagreement and Human Survival.  Epilogue: Having the Last Word

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