Cool Tools for Hot Topics: Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding) [Paperback]

Ron Kraybill (Author), Evelyn Wright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 30, 2007

Some subjects seem too hot for a group to discuss sanely. Not necessarily.
The Little Book of "Cool Tools for Hot Topics" -- Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot shows how to help people hear each other when they feel like shouting; how to focus on the issues at stake rather than having a war of personalities; how to employ actual practices for better understanding (interviews, small-group discussions, role-reversal presentations); and how to move a group toward making a decision that all can honestly support.
Lead author Ron Kraybill is a professor of Conflict Studies in the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. During the years of the South African political transition, he trained local, regional, and national leadership in negotiation and mediation skills and served as a training advisor to the National Peace Accord.
Cool Tools is rich in anecdotes and practical how-to for any group faced with tension-filled decision-making.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 90 pages
• Publisher: Good Books (January 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561485438
• ISBN-13: 978-1561485437
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #627,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to resolve a dispute - 101, September 28, 2007

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Robert Leming "the wind and the waves favor t... - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Tools for Hot Topics: Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding) (Paperback)

A colleague handed me a copy of The Little Book of Cool Tools for Hot Topics: Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding). We both work in an organization, live in a community, have allegiance to a Land, and are concerned for the whole world - so conflict and disputes are all around us.

"It's a quick read, hands on, lots of useful techniques; you'll like it."

It was and I did.

Whether you are planning to lead a group through a conflicted time, or will be part of the group itself and want to learn more about taking a larger point of view - this little book is a great resource.

Bob Leming

Philadelphia

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Essential Book for your Toolbox, December 18, 2007

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Thomas W. Porter "Executive Director of JUSTP... (Boston, MA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Tools for Hot Topics: Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding) (Paperback)

Everyone who is facilitating conversations on difficult subjects and/or conflictual issues should read this book. Ron Kraybill gives us his best tools, learned from years of mediating and teaching, including years working in South Africa. Whatever your issue or conflict, there is a tool here that will help you.