Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts by Harold H. Saunders, Saunders

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Synopsis

Many of the human conflicts that seize our attention are not ready for formal mediation and negotiation: People do not negotiate about identity, fear, historic grievance, and injustice. Sustained dialogue provides citizens outside government can change their conflictual relationships. Harold Saunders' A Public Peace Process, provides citizens instruments for transforming conflict. Saunders outlines a systematic approach for citizens to use in reducing racial, ethnic, and other deep-rooted tensions in their countries, communities, and organizations.

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A former US diplomat who helped negotiate the Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty, offers people outside of government a systematic approach to reducing deep-seeded tensions that are not responsive to formal, external mediation and negotiation. He explains that a sustained dialogue provides space in which issues of identity, fear, historical grievance, and injustice can gradually be resolved. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Biography

Harold H. Saunders is Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation, former member of the National Security Council Staff, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.