Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution by Louis Kriesberg, Louis Kriesberg (Editor)

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This comprehensive analysis of all kinds of social and political conflicts reveals an important, but neglected truth: conflicts often are waged constructively. "Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution" makes it clear how that can occur at each stage of a conflict's course—from emergence, escalation, de-escalation, termination, and finally, to resolution. Kriesberg compares and synthesizes a wide variety of theoretical approaches, drawing from the social sciences, especially sociology, political science, anthropology, and social psychology, but also from the newer interdisciplinary fields of conflict resolution, peace studies, feminism, and security studies. Case studies and quantitative data about a wide variety of conflicts are used, including community and labor management conflicts, class and political revolutionary struggles, and gender-related struggles in small and large-scale settings. Kriesberg gives particular attention to major inter-state and inter-ethnic conflicts. These include the American Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and its transformation, and the tranformations of the Israeli-Arab conflicts. Drawing on past and current theory, research, and practice, "Constructive Conflicts" presents a systematic and coherent approach to understanding how a wide variety of struggles can be waged constructively in a new global context.

Author Biography: Louis Kriesberg is professor emeritus of sociology and Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University.

Roy Licklider

Kriesberg . . . is one of the few people at home with the literature of conflict resolution and international politics, of psychology, sociology, and political science, moving readily back and forth between them. His judgements are insightful and judicious. . . . The sweep and balance of the analysis make it a good choice for a textbook in a graduate or undergraduate course on conflict resolution.

Political Science Quarterly - Roy Licklider

The writing style is clearly social science professional but good of its kind. The sweep of balance of the analysis make it a good choice for a textbook in a a graduate or undergraduate course on conflict resolution, particularly since Rowman and Littlefield was good enough to simultaneously publish paperback and hardcover editions.

Product Details

• ISBN: 0742544230
  
• ISBN-13: 9780742544239
• Format: Textbook Paperback, 400pp
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Pub. Date: August 2006
• Edition Number: 3
• Sales Rank: 214,484

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