Gerard / Kriesberg Conflict and Collaboration

For Better or Worse
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-18127-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

In this volume, scholars from different disciplines join together to examine the overlapping domains of conflict and collaboration studies.

The authors share three major understandings. First, they agree that setting up a duality between conflict as bad and collaboration as good is over-simplistic. Depending on one’s perspective and aims, conflict can be good if, for example, it leads to the righting of an injustice, or if it increases the capacity of less powerful people to become more confident, effective communicators. Conversely, collaboration can be bad if, for example, it is used to maintain a status quo that marginalizes and/or demeans those who lack access to power, or if it hampers creative innovation. Second, the authors here agree that it is helpful to view both conflict and collaboration, as well as related concepts (coercion, contention, and coordination) as identifiable dimensions of social relations. Third, they agree that it is both possible and preferable to move from worse to better relations.Although sharing these three points of agreement, the perspectives of the authors also diverge on some points, and therefore this volume helps illustrate and examine various ways conflict and collaboration efforts can be improved.

The authors discuss specific cases, analytical methods, and interventions, but do not propose a blueprint or a "how-to" formula that would ignore the contextual specificity of the variety of analyses and approaches. Rather, a dual emphasis on developing propositions and reflecting on specific cases and contexts is pursued, which is designed to allow academics and their students to deepen their understanding of these growing fields, and to allow practitioners the opportunity for their approach to practice to broaden.

This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, public administration, sociology and politcial science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerard, Catherine

Kriesberg, Louis

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Sociology and Conflict Resolution: Improving Social Relations, Louis Kriesberg

3. Anthropology: How Coercive Action Enhances Collaboration, John Burdick

4. Public Administration: Understanding the Link Between Collaboration and Better or Worse Relations: The View from Public Administration, Catherine Gerard and Rosemary O’Leary

5. Collaboration, Conflict, and the Search for Sustainable Peacemaking, Bruce W. Dayton

6. Anthropology: Coercing Consensus? Notes on Power and the Hegemony of Collaboration, Robert A. Rubinstein, Shaundel N. Sanchez, and Sandra D. Lane

7. History: Concentric Circles of Sisterhood: Formal and Information Collaboration among American Nuns in Response to Conflict with Vatican Kyriarchy, Margaret Susan Thompson

8. Sociology: Government Collaborations in Belize Central America: From Better to Worse in Shared Ecological Conservation Governance?, Steven Brechin

9. Political Science: Conflict and Collaboration in Political Science, Miriam Elman and Robert Demgenski

10. Communication and environmental policy studies: The Long Island, New York Pine Barrens Experience: From Confrontation to Consensus, Susan Senecah

11. Public administration: The Future of Public Participation: Better Design, Better Relations, Tina Nabatchi and Suyeon Jo

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine M. Gerard is Associate Director of Executive Education Programs and Director of the Program For the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Louis Kriesberg is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, at Syracuse University, NY, USA. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (co-editor, Routledge 2009).