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- 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.
- 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.
- Peace, Culture, and Society: Transnational Research and Dialogue, Elise Boulding, Clovis Brigagao, and Kevin Clements, (eds.), (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991), 308 pp.
- Peace, Culture and Society: Transnational Research and Dialogue is a
collection of research papers investigating the social and cultural bases for peace, with strong emphasis on the need for transnational dialogue on peace issues. This collection is published in cooperation with the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), and grew out of the
Association's 1988 conference in Brazil.
- 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.
- Stable Peace, Kenneth Boulding, (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1978), 143 pp.
- Stable Peace presents policies for creating and sustaining stable international
peace. Modern warfare is increasingly devastating and costly. Nations can no longer afford to merely hope for peace. Instead proactive policies for promoting peace must be developed and adopted.
- The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society, Kenneth Boulding, (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1956), 175 pp.
- In The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society, Kenneth Boulding presents a new unifying concept through
which a better understanding of individual behavior and social dynamics maybe had. He proposes, in effect, a new theory of knowledge: knowledge as image.
- 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).
- Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict, Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson with Pamela Aall, (eds.), (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press,
1996), 642 pp.
- Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict
examines sources of post Cold War international and intrastate conflict and the ability of the latter to spill over its boundaries and attain a global meaning. It discusses ways of managing those conflicts and foreign policy of the United States in the twenty first century.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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