Transforming Violent Conflict: Radical Disagreement, Dialogue and Survival (Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution)

This book investigates intractable conflicts and their main verbal manifestation - radical disagreement – and explores what can be done when conflict resolution fails. The book identifies agonistic dialogue - dialogue between enemies - as the key to linguistic intractability. It suggests how agonistic dialogue can best be studied, explored, understood and managed even in the most severe political conflicts when negotiation, mediation, problem solving, dialogue for mutual understanding, and discourse ethics are unsuccessful. This approach of viewing radical disagreement as the central topic of analysis and conflict management is a new innovation in this field, and also supplements and enhances existing communicative transformational techniques. It also has wider implications for cognate fields, such as applied ethics, democratic theory, cultural studies and the philosophy of difference. This book will be of great interest to students of conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, ethnic conflict and International Relations in general. Oliver Ramsbotham is Emeritus Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, UK, Chair of the Oxford Research Group, President of the Conflict Research Society and co-author of Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Conflict. Annotation This book investigates intractable conflicts and their main verbal manifestation - radical disagreement €“ and explores what can be done when conflict resolution fails. The book identifies agonistic dialogue - dialogue between enemies - as the key to linguistic intractability. It suggests how agonistic dialogue can best be studied, explored, understood and managed even in the most severe political conflicts when negotiation, mediation, problem solving, dialogue for mutual understanding, and discourse ethics are unsuccessful. This approach of viewing radical disagreement as the central topic of analysis and conflict management is a new innovation in this field, and also supplements and enhances existing communicative transformational techniques. It also has wider implications for cognate fields, such as applied ethics, democratic theory, cultural studies and the philosophy of difference. This book will be of great interest to students of conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, ethnic conflict and International Relations in general. Oliver Ramsbothamis Emeritus Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, UK, Chair of the Oxford Research Group, President of the Conflict Research Society and co-author of Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Conflict . This Title Explores Methods Of Managing Radical Disagreement And Creating Dialogues In Violent And Intractable Conflicts, Using The Israeli-palestinian Conflict As Context. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures And Boxes -- Preface -- Prologue: Having The First Word -- Part I Radical Disagreement And Intractable Conflict -- 1 Radical Disagreement And Discourse Analysis -- 2 Radical Disagreement And Conflict Analysis -- 3 Radical Disagreement And Conflict Resolution -- Part Ii Radical Disagreement And The Transformation Of Violent Conflict -- 4 Methodology: Studying Agonistic Dialogue -- 5 Phenomenology: Exploring Agonistic Dialogue -- 6 Epistemology: Understanding Agonistic Dialogue -- 7 Praxis: Managing Agonistic Dialogue -- 8 Re-entry: Feeding Back Into Conflict Settlement And Conflict Transformation -- Part Iii Radical Disagreement And The Future: Theoretical And Practical Implications -- 9 Radical Disagreement And Human Difference -- 10 Radical Disagreement And Human Survival -- Epilogue: Having The Last Word -- Glossary -- References -- Index. Oliver Ramsbotham. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [255]-266) And Index. Investigates intractable conflicts and their main verbal manifestation - radical disagreement. This book explores what can be done when conflict resolution fails