Conflict Research Consortium
Conflict Related Abstracts
- International Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, Edward Azar and John Burton, (eds.), (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1986), 159 pp.
- International Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice discusses alternative approaches to the realist view of international relations. It focuses on the problem solving approach to international conflicts in particular.
- Mediating Environmental Conflicts, J. Walton Blackburn and Willa Marie Bruce, (eds.), (Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books, 1995), 309 pp.
- Mediating Environmental
Conflicts discusses both the theory and practice of environmental mediation. The collected essays explore the nature of environmental conflict, and examine various approaches to its mediation.
- Conflict Management: A Communication Skills Approach, Deborah Borisoff and David Victor, (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1989), 201 pp.
- Conflict Management: A Communication Skills Approach presents a
communication skills approach toward managing conflicts. It analyzes the role communication plays in exacerbating conflicts, and offers communication strategies which promote productive conflict management.
- New Agendas for Peace Research: Conflict and Security Reexamined, Elise Boulding, (ed. ), (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992), 199 pp.
- New Agendas for Peace Research: Conflict and Security Reexamined discusses issues of global conflict and security in the post-Cold War era. This collection of articles reexamines traditional concepts of security, and describes new approaches to national and international conflict resolution.
- Entrapment in Escalating Conflicts, Joel Brockner and Jeffrey Rubin, (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985), 275 pp.
- Entrapment in Escalating Conflicts is an social-
psychological investigation into the phenomena of entrapment. The authors attempt to synthesize findings from a number of studies into a general account of entrapment.
- Conflict: Readings in Management & Resolution, John Burton and Frank Dukes, (eds.), (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 354 pp.
- Conflict: Readings in Management
& Resolution is a collection of essays intended to provide an introduction to and overview of the field of conflict theory.
- Conflict: Practices in Management, Settlement & Resolution, John Burton and Frank Dukes, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 230 pp.
- Negotiation, mediation,
facilitation, and consensus building; of general applicability to environmental problems; written for first and third party participants.
- Conflict: Resolution and Provention, John Burton, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 295 pp.
- Conflict: Resolution and Provention offers an historical and
theoretical overview of approaches to conflict resolution. It particularly emphasizes a problem-solving approach to conflict resolution, and the need for conflict prevention (provention).
- The Promise of Mediation: Responding to Conflict Through Empowerment and Recognition, Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph P. Folger, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994),
296 pp.
- The Promise of Mediation: Responding to Conflict Through
Empowerment and Recognition examines a transformative
approach to mediation. This mediation strategy does not seek to reach an agreement between parties in conflict and to find solutions to their problems as primarily goals.
- Manual of Dispute Resolution: ADR Law and Practice, Edward A. Dauer, (Colorado Springs: Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994), V. 1, 2.
- Manual of Dispute
Resolution: ADR Law and Practice provides "the practitioner with a broad and accessible treatment of the law and the practice of dispute resolution." Its principal subject matter is alternative dispute resolution (ADR), a term that covers a large variety of procedures useful for resolving
clients' problems within the law.
- Confronting Regional Challenges: Approaches to LULUs, Growth, and Other Vexing Governance Problems, Joseph DiMento and LeRoy Graymer, (eds.), (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1991), 131 pp.
- Confronting Regional Challenges: Approaches to LULUs, Growth, and Other Vexing Governance Problems examines the problems that locally unwanted land uses (LULUs) pose for public policy, and suggests ways of breaking the policy impasse.
- William F. Ogburn: On Culture and Social Change, Otis Dudley Duncan (ed.), (Chicago: Phoenix Books; University of Chicago Press, 1964), 347 pp.
- William F. Ogburn:
On Culture and Social Change is a collection of the work of Ogburn which spans the years 1912 - 1961. This collection is an examination of culture and social change from a sociological perspective.
- Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s and Beyond, Gareth Evans, (St. Leonards, Australia: Allen &Unwin, 1994), 224 pp.
- Cooperating for Peace analyzes contemporary security problems facing
the international community, and suggests a strategy for responding to such problems which emphasizes prevention, peace building, and cooperative security. The role of the United Nations in securing peace is discussed throughout.
- The Social Psychology of Intergroup and International Conflict Resolution, Ronald Fisher, (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990), 277 pp.
- The Social Psychology of
Intergroup and International Conflict Resolution explores the "causation, escalation, de-escalation, and resolution" of intergroup conflicts from the perspective of social-psychology.
- Mediation: A Comprehensive Guide to Resolving Conflicts without Litigation, Jay Folberg and Alison Taylor, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1984), 392 pp.
- Mediation: A Comprehensive Guide to Resolving Conflicts without Litigation describes the basic knowledge and skills necessary for
effective mediation. It serves as a training manual for beginning mediators.
- New Directions in Mediation: Communication Research and Perspectives, Joseph Folger and Tricia Jones, (eds.), (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1994), 263 pp.
- New Directions in Mediation is a
collection of essays which analyze the mediation process from a communicative perspective. The collection includes both theoretical approaches, and discussions of practical application.
- Political Theory and Public Policy, Robert E. Goodin, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 249 pp.
- Political Theory and Public Policy is an examination of the
role of political theory and its foundation in moral theory in the formation and justification of public policy.
- Negotiation: Strategies for Mutual Gain, Lavinia Hall, ed. (London: Sage Publications, 1993), 212 pp.
- Negotiation: Strategies for Mutual Gain is a collection of essays which present key concepts
and strategies intended to promote effective negotiation and mutually beneficial dispute resolution.
- Interpersonal Conflict, Joyce Hocker and William Wilmot, 2nd ed. rev., (Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1985), 236 pp.
- Interpersonal Conflict explores the
factors which contribute to interpersonal conflict, with particular attention to the communication behavior of the conflicting parties.
- Culture of Complaint: A Passionate Look into the Ailing Heart of America, Robert Hughes, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 209 pp.
- Culture of Complaint: A Passionate Look into the Ailing Heart of America is an analysis of contemporary American culture, and of
current trends in politics, academics, and art. This work arose from a series of lectures offered at the New York Library in 1992.
- Environomics: The Economics of Environmentally Safe Prosperity, Farid A. Khavari, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993), 189 pp.
- Environomics: The Economics of Environmentally Safe Prosperity explores ways of attaining general economic prosperity while improving or at least
sustaining environmental conditions. The author argues that present forms of economic growth degrade the environment, and are not sustainable in the long term.
- Shared Values for a Troubled World: Conversations with Men and Women of Conscience, Rushworth M. Kidder, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994), 332
pp.
- Shared Values for a Troubled World: Conversations with Men and Women of Conscience attempts to identify a core of globally shared ethical values. The author interviews twenty-four notable thinkers of diverse interests and cultural backgrounds, asking each to describe their fundamental moral principles. Drawing on
these interviews, Kidder describes a core of common ethical values.
- The New American Political System, Anthony King, (ed), (Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1978), 395 pp.
- The New American
Political System is an examination of change in the political system of the United States since the New Deal era of the 1930s. The editor asserts that the impetus for much of this change can be located in the events of the 1960s and 1970s.
- When Talk Works: Profiles of Mediators, Deborah M. Kolb and Associates, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bas Publishers, 1994) 513 pp.
- When Talk Works: Profiles of Mediators provides profiles of twelve successful
practicing mediators, and their techniques. The author concludes by contrasting their practices to prevailing theories of mediation.
- Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping With Conflict, Roger Fisher, Elizabeth Kopelman, and Andrea Kupfer Schneider, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), 151 pp.
- Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping With Conflict argues
that individuals can make important contributions to complex conflicts. It offers tools and guidelines to help individuals respond effectively to conflict.
- International Conflict Resolution: The U.S. - U.S.S.R. and Middle East Cases, Louis Kriesberg, (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1992), 275 pp.
- International Conflict Resolution: The U.S. - U.S.S.R. and Middle East Cases presents an
analysis of international conflict de-escalation and negotiation by investigating Arab-Israeli and U.S. - U.S.S.R. de-escalation efforts.
- Intractable Conflicts and Their Transformations, Louis Kriesberg, Terrell Northrup, and Stuart Thorson, (eds.), (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1989), 249
pp.
- Intractable Conflicts and Their Transformations brings together essays from a number of authors who explore intractability through diverse theoretical frameworks and case histories. These essays were first presented at a conference sponsored by Syracuse University's Program on the
Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts.
- Timing the De-Escalation of International Conflicts, Louis Kriesberg and Stuart Thorson, (eds.), (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1991), 303 pp.
- Timing
the De-Escalation of International Conflicts is a collection of essays which explore the context, policies and strategies of effective conflict de-escalation.
- Negotiating at an Uneven Table: Developing Moral Courage in Resolving Our Conflicts, Phyllis Beck Kritek, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bas Publishers, 1994), 339 pp.
- Negotiating at an Uneven Table: Developing Moral Courage in Resolving Our Conflicts is about negotiating conflict
in situations where some participants are at a disadvantage which others do not acknowledge. It offers strategies for the disadvantaged participants, and methods of recognizing uneven negotiation situations for all participants.
- Max Weber, Anthony T. Kronman, contained in the series; Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory, William Twining (ed.), (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983),
210 pp.
- Max Weber, to paraphrase the author, examines the philosophical reflexion implicit in Weber's Rechtssoziologie and asserts that its unstated, underlying philosophical assumptions are what gives the work its intellectual coherence and provide a connecting link
between this and other of Weber's work.
- Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations, Terry Leap, (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995), 752 pp.
- Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations is a
college-level text which explores collective bargaining and the history and current practice of union-management relations.
- Resolving Social Conflicts, Kurt Lewin, (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1948), 230 pp.
- Resolving Social Conflicts is a collection of early essays exploring the
relationship between individuals, groups, and the process of conflict, from a social psychological perspective.
- The Policy Making Process, Charles E. Lindblom, (New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 1968), 120 pp.
- The Policy Making Process is an examination of the process of policy-
making from a political science perspective. It focuses upon analytic policy-making and the role of power therein.
- Informal Justice?, Roger Matthews, (ed.), (London: Sage Publications, 1988), 211 pp.
- Informal Justice? is a collection of essays which evaluate informal justice systems in
both practical and theoretical terms. The authors assess the practical benefits of informal justice, and the explore the relation between informal justice, formal justice, state power and social control.
- Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics, Robert C. Paehlke, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), 325 pp.
- Environmentalism and the Future of
Progressive Politics is about environmentalism as politics. The author seeks to develop environmentalism as a political ideology, comparable to conservativism or socialism, and to articulate "a consistent and clear environmental position on a full range of important political and social
issues."
- Social Conflict, Dean G. Pruitt, (New York: Random House, 1986), 213 pp.
- Social Conflict describes the nature of conflict, the factors which escalate conflict, and
strategies which may be used to de-escalate and settle conflict.
- The Power of Public Ideas, Robert B. Reich, (Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988), 251 pp.
- The Power of Public Ideas is an examination of the creation and
maintenance, and governmental expression, of public ideas and their effect on policy-making in a democracy. It is a collection of essays written by various authors.
- The Management of Conflict, Marc Howard Ross, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1993), 226 pp.
- The Management of Conflict examines the role of
cultural interpretations and structural interests in conflict and conflict management. It also presents a theoretical framework for constructive conflict management.
- From Confrontation to Cooperation: Resolving Ethnic and Regional Conflict, Jay Rothman, (London: Sage Publications, 1992), 246 pp. 247.
- From Confrontation to Cooperation: Resolving Ethnic and Regional Conflict presents a new conceptual
framework for understanding and resolving protracted ethnic conflicts.
- Ethnic Conflict and International Relations, Stephan Ryan, (Brookfield, Vermont: Dartmouth Publishing, 1990), 200 pp.
- Ethnic Conflict and International Relations
explores the causes and processes of ethnic conflict, and describes the mechanisms for resolution of ethnic conflicts. Particular attention is given to the role of international politics in either promoting or resolving ethnic conflicts.
- Conflict Resolution: Theory, Research, Practice, James Schellenberg, (New York: State University of New York Press, 1996), 247 pp.
- Conflict Resolution: Theory, Research, Practice provides a basic introduction to the study
of conflict and the practices of conflict resolution.
- Methods of Nonviolent Action, Gene Sharp, (Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973), 339 pp.
- Methods of Nonviolent Action describes nearly two-hundred specific
methods of nonviolent action.
- Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-Based Deterrence and Defense, Gene Sharp, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing, 1985), 250 pp.
- Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-Based Deterrence and Defense argues that civilian based
nonviolent deterrence and defense is a viable alternative to conventional military approaches to national security.
- Exploring Nonviolent Alternatives, Gene Sharp, (Boston: Porter Sargent, 1970), 162 pp.
- Exploring Nonviolent Alternatives examines potential for techniques of
nonviolent resistance to replace reliance on violence as the means of final resort in conflict.
- Power and Struggle, Gene Sharp, Marina Finkelstein, (ed.), (Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973), 105 pp.
- Power and Struggle examines the nature and sources of political power, and then explores the
potential for nonviolent action to serve as an effective alternative to the use of violence in opposing political power.
- The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action, Gene Sharp, Marina Finkelstein, (ed.), (Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973), 450 pp.
- The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action explores the nature and processes of
nonviolent action.
- Models of Man: Social and Rational, Herbert A. Simon, (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1957), 279 pp.
- Models of Man: Social and Rational is, according to the
author, a collection of mathematical essays on rational human behavior in a social setting. The work employs mathematical formulae in support of the author's assertions regarding human behavior.
- Settling Disputes, Linda Singer, (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1990), 196 pp.
- Settling Disputes offers an overview of alternatives forms of dispute resolution. It
describes and evaluates the use of these alternatives in cases ranging from family disputes to business and the legal system.
- A Primer for Policy Analysis, E. Stokey and R. Zeckhauser, (New York: W. W. Norton and Company Inc., 1978), 356 pp.
- A Primer for Policy Analysis is built on the
implicit assumption that policy-making decisions are economic decisions. Thus, it is an exposition of economic theory applied to policy-making.
- Breaking the Impasse: Consensual Approaches to Resolving Public Disputes, Lawrence Susskind and Jeffrey Cruikshank, (New York: Basic Books, 1987), 276 pp.
- Breaking the Impasse: Consensual Approaches to Resolving Public Disputes offers a guide to consensual strategies
for resolving public disputes. Lawrence Susskind is a founder of the Program On Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Jeffery Cruikshank was senior editor at Harvard School of Business Administration.
- Resolving Environmental Regulatory Disputes, Lawrence Susskind, Lawrence Bacow, and Michael Wheeler, (eds.), (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman Books, 1983), 261
pp.
- Resolving Environmental Regulatory Disputes analyses the use of voluntary, informal negotiations to resolve environmental disputes. The authors proceed by examining case studies.
- Wildlife and the Public Interest, James A. Tober, (New York: Praeger, 1989), 220 pp.
- Wildlife and the Public Interest studies the role of nonprofit, nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) in collective decision making regarding wildlife policy. It particularly emphasizes the nonprofit form of organization, and evaluates the benefits of this form for wildlife advocacy.
- When Values Conflict: Essays on Environmental Analysis, Discourse, and Decision, Laurence Tribe, Corinne Schelling, and John Voss, (eds.), (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1976), 178 pp.
- When Values Conflict: Essays on Environmental Analysis, Discourse, and Decision is a
collection of essays each of which addresses the issue of value conflicts in environmental disputes. These authors discuss the need to integrate such "fragile" values as beauty and naturalness with "hard"values such as economic efficiency in the decision making process.
- Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, John E. Tropman, (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1996), 206 pp.
- Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions offers a set of principles and
instructions for managing successful, productive meetings. This book aims to enable the reader to lead effective, enjoyable meetings which produce lasting, high quality decisions.
- Mediating Interpersonal Conflicts: A Pathway to Peace, Mark S. Umbreit, (West Concord, Minnesota: CPI Publishing, 1995), 292 pp.
- Mediating Interpersonal Conflicts: A Pathway to Peace examines
contemporary uses of mediation to resolve interpersonal conflicts. The author explores the healing potential of mediation.
- Getting Disputes Resolved: Designing Systems to Cut the Costs of Conflict, Willian Ury, Jeanne Brett, and Stephen Goldberg, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bas Publishers, 1988), 201 pp.
- Getting Disputes Resolved: Designing Systems to Cut the Costs of Conflict offers a
systems approach to managing the ongoing series of disputes which inevitably arise within any relationship or organization. This text presents "a basic conceptual framework for dispute systems design, a variety of lessons and examples for practitioners, and a detailed case study" of a
dispute systems design and implementation.
- New Directions in Conflict Theory: Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation, Raimo Vayrynen, (ed.), (London: Sage Publications, 1991), 232 pp.
- New Directions in Conflict Theory: Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation is a collection of essays which
explore new approaches to national and international conflict resolution. The essays address a broad range of issues, from the uses of violence to international environmental conflict.
- Toxic Terror: The Truth Behind the Cancer Scares, Elizabeth M. Whelan, (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1993), 476 pp.
- Toxic Terror: The Truth Behind the Cancer Scares argues that many of the dangers of modern technology and
chemicals have been grossly overstated. This text seeks to dispel many of the alarmist claims that have been raised in the popular media, by careful evaluation of the scientific evidence.
- The Moral Sense, James Q. Wilson, (New York: The Free Press, 1993), 313pp.
- The Moral Sense seeks to identify a shared human moral sense, and to understand the
social, biological, and evolutionary origins of that moral sense. Wilson argues against the view that morality is entirely determined by culture.
- The Practical Negotiator, I. William Zartman and Maureen Berman, (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1982), 250 pp.
- The Practical Negotiator draws upon
both theory and practice to present a model of the negotiation process. This text focuses primarily upon international negotiations.
- The Negotiation Process: Theories and Applications, I. William Zartman, (ed.), (London: Sage Publications, 1978), 240 pp.
- The Negotiation Process: Theories and Applications explores different approaches to negotiation
theory. The essays present various theoretic models of the negotiation process, and apply those models to particular case studies.
Main Conflict Research Consortium
Home
Page
For more information contact: Guy Burgess, Co-Director,
Conflict Research Consortium, Campus Box 327, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0327 Phone: (303)492-1635; Fax:
(303)492-2154; E-Mail: crc@colorado.eduCopyright 1997 by Conflict Research Consortium