After years of relative neglect, culture is finally receiving due recognition as a key factor in the evolution and resolution of conflicts. Unfortunately, however, when theorists and practitioners of conflict resolution speak of “culture,” they often understand and use it in a bewildering and unhelpful variety of ways. With sophistication and lucidity, Culture and Conflict Resolution exposes these shortcomings and proposes an alternative conception in which culture is seen as dynamic and derivative of individual experience. The book explores divergent theories of social conflict and differing strategies that shape the conduct of diplomacy, and examines the role that culture has (and has not) played in conflict resolution. The author is as forceful in critiquing those who would dismiss or diminish culture’s relevance as he is trenchant in advocating conflict resolution approaches that make the most productive use of a coherent concept of culture. In a lively style, Avruch challenges both scholars and practitioners not only to develop a clearer understanding of what culture is, but also to take that understanding and incorporate it into more effective conflict resolution processes.
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"A lucid work in simple and clear English. Avruch succeeds in drawing attention of the reader to the importance of culture as a tool in the resolution of conflict. A welcome addition to the growing body of literature on peace studies." -- International Journal on World Peace
"Avruch lays out a most convincing argument for the inclusion of culture as a primary element of the study of deep rooted communal conflicts." -- Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity
"[Avruch] provides a clear understanding of the philosophical and practical problems that limit the use of culture as a variable in negotiation training and planning, and does a first rate job of sensitizing the reader to real problems with some elements of the negotiation literature." -- The Alternative Newsletter
"Avruch lays out a most convincing argument for the inclusion of culture as a primary element of the study of deep rooted communal conflicts." -- Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity
"[Avruch] provides a clear understanding of the philosophical and practical problems that limit the use of culture as a variable in negotiation training and planning, and does a first rate job of sensitizing the reader to real problems with some elements of the negotiation literature." -- The Alternative Newsletter
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Kevin Avruch is professor of anthropology at George Mason University and faculty member of the university’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. His recent books include two co-edited volumes, Conflict Resolution: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Critical Essays on Israeli Society. He was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 1996–97.
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Professor Kevin Avruch has written a thought provoking and very useful book on the relationship between conflict resolution and culture.
The author outlines how different cultures act and think when it comes to conflict and conflict resolution. For those of us who work in an International organisation, this book is extremely handy, especially for managers. By understanding how conflicts arise and the various approaches differing cultures use to resolve conflict; the reader appreciates the variety in the world's peoples. He gives an insight into cultural roles in resolution, cultural aspects in negotiation and the issue of power in cultural aspects to conflict resolution. The book is especially useful for the person living and working abroad and who travels. Reading the book gives important insight into how various cultures see conflict and their various approaches to conflict resolution. I would commend the book to anyone who works in a multi-cultural work environment.Well done, Professor Avruch!
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Professor Avruch openly acknowledges what the conflict resolution field, among many other social science fields, overlooked for many years: culture. He offers to the average reader an opportunity to consider basic principles in how culture dictates how we all interact. Culture is what people experience on a daily basis and most definitely take for granted. Armed with a new and encompassing understanding, professionals and those who are simply curious may then consider their interactions and situations from different points of views, and hopefully be willing to exchange ideas and experiences more freely and purposefully.
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In the essay's first part we develop the idea that culture is a derivative of individual experience, something learned or created by individuals themselves or passed on to them socially by contemporaries or ancestors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conflict resolutionists, etic schemes, intercultural conflict resolution, generic culture, conflict resolution theory, intercultural negotiations, inadequate ideas, negotiating behavior, realist thinking, power discrepancy, etic approaches, emic approach, realist paradigm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Conflict Resolution: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Contributions in Ethnic Studies) by Peter W. Black on 18 pages
- Conflict Resolution by John W. Burton on 11 pages
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher on 6 pages
- Conflict: Resolution and Provention (Conflict Series) by John W. Burton on 5 pages
- Resolving International Conflicts: The Theory and Practice of Mediation (Studies in International Politics) by Jacob Bercovitch on 4 pages
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