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Peacemaking
About: Peacemaking is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2129 publications have been published within this topic receiving 35404 citations. The topic is also known as: pacifying & pacification.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that climate change increasingly undermines human security in the present day, and will increasingly do so in the future, by reducing access to, and the quality of, natural resources that are important to sustain livelihoods.
920 citations
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The Handbook of Conflict Resolution as discussed by the authors is a classic handbook for conflict resolution that is both comprehensive and deeply informed on topics vital to the field like power, gender, cooperation, emotion, and trust.
Abstract: Praise for The Handbook of Conflict Resolution
"This handbook is a classic. It helps connect the research of academia to the practical realities of peacemaking and peacebuilding like no other. It is both comprehensive and deeply informed on topics vital to the field like power, gender, cooperation, emotion, and trust. It now sits prominently on my bookshelf."
—Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
"The Handbook of Conflict Resolution offers an astonishing array of insightful articles on theory and practice by leading scholars and practitioners. Students, professors, and professionals alike can learn a great deal from studying this Handbook."
—William Ury, Director, Global Negotiation Project, Harvard University; coauthor, Getting to Yes and author, The Third Side
"Morton Deutsch, Peter Coleman, and Eric Marcus put together a handbook that will be helpful to many. I hope the book will reach well beyond North America to contribute to the growing worldwide interest in the constructive resolution of conflict. This book offers instructive ways to make this commitment a reality."
—George J. Mitchell, Former majority leader of the United States Senate; former chairman of the Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland and the International Fact-Finding Committee on Violence in the Middle East; chairman of the board, Walt Disney Company; senior fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
"Let's be honest. This book is just too big to carry around in your hand. But that's because it is loaded with the most critical essays linking the theory and practice of conflict resolution. The Handbook of Conflict Resolution is heavy on content and should be a well-referenced resource on the desk of every mediator—as it is on mine."
—Johnston Barkat, Assistant Secretary-General, Ombudsman and Mediation Services, United Nations
783 citations
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01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: De Waal as mentioned in this paper showed that confrontation should not be viewed as a barrier to sociality but rather as an unavoidable element upon which social relationships can be built and strengthened through reconciliation.
Abstract: Does biology condemn the human species to violence and war? Previous studies of animal behavior incline us to answer yes, but the message of this book is considerably more optimistic. Without denying our heritage of aggressive behavior, Frans de Waal describes powerful checks and balances in the makeup of our closest animal relatives, and in so doing he shows that to humans making peace is as natural as making war. In this meticulously researched and absorbing account, we learn in detail how different types of simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights. Chimpanzees, for instance, reconcile with a hug and a kiss, whereas rhesus monkeys groom the fur of former adversaries. By objectively examining the dynamics of primate social interactions, de Waal makes a convincing case that confrontation should not be viewed as a barrier to sociality but rather as an unavoidable element upon which social relationships can be built and strengthened through reconciliation. The author examines five different species--chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, stump-tailed monkeys, bonobos, and humans--and relates anecdotes, culled from exhaustive observations, that convey the intricacies and refinements of simian behavior. Each species utilizes its own unique peacemaking strategies. The bonobo, for example, is little known to science, and even less to the general public, but this rare ape maintains peace by means of sexual behavior divorced from reproductive functions; sex occurs in all possible combinations and positions whenever social tensions need to be resolved. "Make love, not war" could be the bonobo slogan. De Waal's demonstration of reconciliation in both monkeys andapes strongly supports his thesis that forgiveness and peacemaking are widespread among nonhuman primates--an aspect of primate societies that should stimulate much needed work on human conflict resolution.
674 citations
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01 Jan 1992
652 citations
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The history of conflict resolution can be traced back to the early 1970s and the development of the field of Conflict Resolution (CRL) as mentioned in this paper, with the focus on conflict resolution in art and popular culture.
Abstract: * Preface * Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * PART I: CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT RESOLUTION *1 Introduction to Conflict Resolution: Concepts and Definitions *2 Conflict Resolution: Origins, Foundations and Development of the Field *3 The Statistics of Deadly Quarrels and the Measurement of Peace *4 Understanding Contemporary Conflict *5 Preventing Violent Conflict *6 Containing Violent Conflict: Peacekeeping *7 Ending Violent Conflict: Peacemaking *8 Post-War Reconstruction *9 Peacebuilding *10 Reconciliation * PART II: COSMOPOLITAN CONFLICT RESOLUTION *11 Towards Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution *12 Environmental Conflict Resolution *13 Gender in Conflict Resolution *14 The Ethics of Intervention *15 Culture, Religion and Conflict Resolution *16 Conflict Resolution in Art and Popular Culture *17 Conflict Resolution, the Media and the Communications Revolution *18 Linguistic Intractability: Engaging Radical Disagreement *19 Conflict Resolution: Theories and Critiques *20 Conflict Resolution and the Future
610 citations