The New Politics of Conflict Resolution: Responding to Difference (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)

This book shows that the conflict resolution field often denies difference even as it attempts to implement a progressive and responsive politics. Innovative theoretical analysis suggests ways of responding anew across difference and beyond dominant ways of thinking about political community and conflict. Contents......Page 7 Preface......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 13 Introduction......Page 15 The conflict resolution field......Page 17 The difference challenge......Page 20 Bringing difference to bear......Page 26 Detailed overview......Page 29 Part I: Ordering Difference......Page 37 1 The Culture Challenge......Page 39 From behavior to meaning......Page 42 The culture question expanded......Page 45 Culture at the limit......Page 48 Colonial encounters......Page 49 The culture challenge with Kevin Avruch......Page 53 Culture without Cultures......Page 57 Possibilities of relatedness?......Page 60 Conclusion......Page 62 2 Governing Difference......Page 64 Mapping cultural governance......Page 66 Norms for governance......Page 72 Facilitative governance......Page 77 Normalization......Page 78 Confessional problem-solving......Page 82 Facilitating rational selves......Page 85 Governance achieved?......Page 89 Conclusion......Page 91 3 Sovereign Selves......Page 93 Sovereign knowledge and the subordination of difference......Page 96 Facilitating liberal governance: Sovereign self, sovereign state......Page 105 Fissured sovereignty......Page 111 Conclusion......Page 114 Part II: Exploring Relatedness......Page 117 4 Recognition and Relatedness......Page 119 Cosmopolitan conflict resolution......Page 121 The risks of recognition......Page 124 Recognizing selves......Page 126 Relatedness: Complementing recognition......Page 132 Relatedness: Beyond sovereignty?......Page 134 Conclusion......Page 142 5 Responding Anew......Page 144 Selves as resources......Page 146 Becoming-other......Page 149 Beyond reflexivity......Page 151 Avoiding self-indulgence......Page 154 Responsive complexity......Page 157 Networked relationality......Page 163 Conclusion......Page 166 Conclusion......Page 168 Ordering difference......Page 169 Toward a new politics?......Page 173 Notes......Page 179 Bibliography......Page 208 F......Page 222 R......Page 223 V......Page 224 Conflict Resolution Has Come Of Age As A Specialized And Coherent Field, But Struggles To Deal With Cultural And Other Differences That Fuel Key Conflicts Of Our Time. This Book Critically Engages Conflict Resolution's Relationship With Difference While Sharing The Field's Commitment To Responsive Engagement To People In Conflict. Critical Analysis Shows That Enthusiasm For Conflict Resolution's Practical Possibilities Unwittingly Re-inscribes Dominant Ways Of Thinking About Political Community, Order And Conflict. This Denies Difference And Orders It On Liberal Terms. Yet The Practical Commitment To Responsiveness And Personal Engagement On The Part Of Many Conflict Resolution Scholars And Practitioners Also Offers Prospects For Rethinking The Field's Relationship With Difference. When Combined With Critical Theoretical Analysis At The Limits Of Contemporary Social Science, Engaged Practice Evokes Vulnerability And Responsiveness To Difference. Drawing Upon Theoretical Ideas Of Relatedness And Connection, This Book Moves Beyond Dominant Ways Of Thinking In Conflict Resolution Toward Possibilities For Responding Anew Across Difference. The Culture Challenge -- Governing Difference -- Sovereign Selves -- Recognition And Relatedness -- Responding Anew. Morgan Brigg. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 165-207) And Index. Master And Use Copy. Digital Master Created According To Benchmark For Faithful Digital Reproductions Of Monographs And Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. Http://purl.oclc.org/dlf/benchrepro0212 Miaahdl "Conflict resolution has come of age as a specialized and coherent field, but struggles to deal with cultural and other differences that fuel key conflicts of our time. This book critically engages conflict resolution's relationship with difference while sharing the field's commitment to responsive engagement to people in conflict. Critical analysis shows that enthusiasm for conflict resolution's practical possibilities unwittingly reinscribes dominant ways of thinking about political community, order, and conflict. This denies difference and orders it on liberal terms. Yet the practical commitment to responsiveness and personal engagement on the part of many conflict resolution scholars and practitioners also offers prospects for rethinking the field's relationship with difference. When combines with critical analysis at the limits of contemporary social science, engaged practice evokes vulnerability and responsiveness to difference. Drawing upon theoretical ideas of relatedness and connection, this book moves beyond dominant ways of thinking in conflict resolution toward possibilities for responding anew across difference."--Jacket Civil-military cooperation is a hallmark of contemporary military operations. Images of soldiers digging wells or helping to open schools characterize our view of what goes on in places such as Afghanistan. This book demonstrates that these operations overseas are indeed about winning hearts and minds - just not the ones we normally expect. By examining Canada's civil-military cooperation efforts in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Afghanistan through the lens of Clausewitz's 'Remarkable Trinity', Ankersen shows that military action is the product of influences from the government, the armed forces, and the people at home. Drawing on interviews with politicians and practitioners, as well as first-hand field research, this book provides an in-depth examination of the important domestic relationships that drive overseas military activity. It highlights that contemporary civil-military relations are not only about soldiers following orders, but also negotiations, vested interests and contested group identities. There has been no sustained inquiry into the relationship linking peace and conflict with space and place. This innovative edited volume explores conflict and peace through spatial approaches, and proposes a new research agenda investigating where peace and conflict take place. 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