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The Skilled Facilitator
New and Revised Edition
Roger Schwarz
Based on Schwarz's practical experience working in the field and the feedback he recieved in his dynamic workshops, this revised edition is easier to use and much more accessible. This book is grounded in the latest thinking on teams, organization development, and facilitation.
Dissent: Voices of Conscience Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq
Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon
This book tells of the stories these brave men and women who risked careers, reputations, and even freedom out of loyalty to the law and their fellow citizens. When a nations's leaders manipulate facts and withhold essential informatin, we need insiders to tell us the truth. Dissent is crucial for democracy to thrive.
Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution 3rd Edition
Louis Kriesberg
Louis Kriesberge examines the strategies that partisans and intermediaries can use to minimize the destructiveness of these conflicts. This book covers the American civil rights struggle, the struggle for women's rights, apartheid in South Africa, labor-management relations, Palestinian-Israeli relations, environmental protection, the Cold War, and counterterrorism efforts, as well as conflicts in Northern Ireland, Mexico, and Sri Lanka.
Turbulent Peace The Challenges of Managing International Conflict
Edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall
Turbulent Peace presents ample proof of the ability to recognize trends in phenomena of quite recent vintage. Chapters in this volme attest, we have entered a new era, and no one who wishes to understand the character of our times can affored to ignore the kind of analyes offered by this book.
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Negotiating Rationally
Max H. Bazerman and Margaret A. Neale, The Free Press: New York, 1992
This book analyzes how professionals negotiate rationally and the common reasons why they don’t. This book summarizes the common errors make in negotiation and how to avoid them to become a more rational negotiator.
Bypass Court: A Dispute Resolution Handbook
Genevieve A. Chornenki and Christine E. Hart, Butterworths Canada Ltd.: Canada, 1996
This book discusses ways that disputes can be settled, solved or finally determined. It explains and organizes these ways, helps readers to choose a suitable way and gives them practical advice and information about using some specific dispute resolution processes.
Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities
Mark Gerzon, Harvard Business School Press: Boston, 2006
Through absorbing examples drawn from decades of work with organizational, political, and global conflicts of all kinds, this book provides a powerful new framework for the leader as mediator, and outlines eight specific tools these leaders use to transform seemingly intractable differences into progress on deep-seated problems.
Kings of Peace, Pawns of War
Harriet Martin, Continuum: New York, 2006
This book explores the real-life challenges and dilemmas faced by conflict mediators. It does so through recounting the experiences and insights of 6 conflict mediators who, at the time they were interviewed, were grappling with some of the world’s most intractable conflicts. A concluding chapter sketches out the skills, character and techniques which experience suggests make for successful mediation.
Law/Society Origins, Interactions, and Change
John R. Sutton, Pine Forge Press: CA, 2001
Providing a conceptual framework for thinking about the full range of topics within the sociology of law discipline, this book: contrasts normative and sociological perspectives on law; presents a primer on the logic of research and inference as applied to law related issues; examines theories of legal change; and discusses law in action with specific reference to civil rights legislation.
Journal
Dispute Resolution Magazine - Summer 2006
Vol. 12, No. 4
Articles
Book Review: Beyond Reason and Beyond Emotion by Chris Guthrie
Books and Films to Rev Up Your Work and Life
Judicial Ethics and Judicial Settlement Practices: Time for Two Strangers to Meet by the Hon. John C. Cratsley
Classwide Arbitration: The Contract Construction Issue by Mitchell Chyette
Guide to Confidentiality Under the Federal Administrative Dispute Resolution Act by Steven A Shapiro and Debora Ruth Kant
Federal Committee Publishes Companion ‘Nuts and Bolts’ Guidance Document by D. Leah Meltzer and David Baston
The Effects of and ADR ‘Confer and Report’ Rule by Roselle L. Wissler and Bob Dauber
Podcast
Mark Kurlansky: "Nonviolence" (Modern Library)
The Diane Rehm Show, Sept. 12, 2006
In this "history of a dangerous idea," the author examines nonviolence and the religions, leaders, and movements that have shaped and promoted the concept through the centuries. To listen to this podcast go to http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/06/09/12.php#11187.
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