Creativity and Conflict Resolution: Alternative Pathways to Peace (Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution) - Softcover

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Arai, Tatsushi

 
9780415691512: Creativity and Conflict Resolution: Alternative Pathways to Peace (Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415691516 ISBN 13: 9780415691512
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations.

Creativity and Conflict Resolution explores a subject with which political communities involved in social conflict have always grappled: creative ways of imagining and actualizing visions of conflict resolution. This is an ambitious question, which concerns human communities at many different levels, from families, regional-independence movements, and national governments, to inter-state alliances. The author argues that unconventional viability lies at the heart of creativity for transcending seemingly intractable inter-communal conflicts. More specifically, conflict resolution creativity is a social and epistemological process, whereby actors involved in a given social conflict learn to formulate an unconventional resolution option or procedure.

Demystifying the origin of unthinkable breakthroughs for conflict resolution and illuminating theories of creativity based on 17 international case studies, this book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, human security and IR.

Tatsushi Arai is an Associate Professor of Conflict Transformation at the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont, USA. He has a PhD in Conflict Resolution from George Mason University, Washington DC, and extensive practical experience in the field.

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About the Author

Tatsushi Arai is an Associate Professor of Conflict Transformation at the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont, USA. He has a PhD in Conflict Resolution from George Mason University in Virginia, and extensive international experience as a trainer, mediator, and dialogue facilitator.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415691516
ISBN 13 
9780415691512
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272

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