Includes bibliographical references and index.

Culture and Conflict Resolution, Kevin Avruch -- Conflict Resolution in the United States - The Emergence of a Profession?, Joeph A. Scimecca -- Harmony Models and the Construction of Law, Laura Nader -- Tertius Luctans - Idiocosm, Caricature and Mask, F.G. Bailey -- Interpersonal Conflict Management Styles of Jordanian Managers, Kamil Kozan -- Conflict Resolution and Moral Community Among the Dou Donggo (Indonesia), Peter Just -- Surprised by Common Sense - Local Understandings and the Management of Conflict on Tobi, Republic of Belau, Peter W. Black -- Of Nets, Nails and Problems - A Folk Language of Conflict Resolution in a Central American Setting, John Paul Lederach -- Rhetoric Reality and Resolving Conflicts - Disentangling in a Solomon Islands Society, Geoffrey M. White -- Ho'oponopono - Straightening Family Relationships in Hawaii, E.Victoria Shook and Leonard Ke'ala Kwan.
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This collection of comparable case studies addresses the need to assess modes of conflict resolution in a larger sociocultural context with attention to varying approaches and cultural perspectives. Editors Avruch, Black, and Scimecca, together with other anthropologists and sociologists, propose and test different propositions, while looking toward a general theory of conflict and conflict resolution. Their joint effort should be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, indeed to all those concerned with ethnic studies and ethnoconflict today. The contributors examine different theoretical concepts and approaches to conflict resolution in five different cultures - American, Arab, Asian, Latin American, and Pacific societies. The interdisciplinary study offers a broad range of vantage points for considering interpersonal, community, institutional, and national problems. The authors analyze concepts of personhood, the role of power and authority, ethical values, and methods for negotiating differences, and conflict resolution as an emerging discipline.
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