Conflict Resolution: Theory, Research, and Practice - Hardcover

Schellenberg, James A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791431010 ISBN 13: 9780791431016

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1996

Synopsis

Shellenberg (sociology, Indiana State U.) identifies the five main ways people try to resolve their conflicts: coercion, negotiation, adjudication, mediation, and arbitration. Then he reviews both classic and contemporary theories, including individual characteristics, social process, social structural, and formal. He draws on case studies ranging from individuals to states. Not a how-to manual. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Review

The resolution of conflict in our society promises to become a major professional specialization as the democratization process continues to bring onto the stage of history the needs and interests of formerly suppressed groups. The need for first rate research and thought in this burgeoning area of specialization is great. Schellenberg brings the process of conflict resolution into a wide range of everyday realities so that the reader may become freshly cognizant of the many areas of social life to which the process is relevant and useful. This for many will be an awakening. Seth Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara
This book is absolutely fascinating. There are many books on conflict resolution, but none, that I know of, take the author s omnibus review approach of formal theory, experiments, qualitative research, classical social theory, etc. The author manages to blend many varieties of theory and research into a seemingly seamless whole that genuinely illuminates an otherwise overwhelmingly large field of inquiry. Stjepan Mestrovic, Texas A&M University"

"The resolution of conflict in our society promises to become a major professional specialization as the democratization process continues to bring onto the stage of history the needs and interests of formerly suppressed groups. The need for first rate research and thought in this burgeoning area of specialization is great. Schellenberg brings the process of conflict resolution into a wide range of everyday realities so that the reader may become freshly cognizant of the many areas of social life to which the process is relevant and useful. This for many will be an awakening." -- Seth Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara

"This book is absolutely fascinating. There are many books on conflict resolution, but none, that I know of, take the author's omnibus review approach of formal theory, experiments, qualitative research, classical social theory, etc. The author manages to blend many varieties of theory and research into a seemingly seamless whole that genuinely illuminates an otherwise overwhelmingly large field of inquiry." -- Stjepan Mestrovic, Texas A&M University

From the Back Cover

Scholarly work in the study of conflict has expanded greatly in recent decades, as has the work of professionals who apply their efforts to the area of conflict resolution. However, there is relatively little contact between the academics and the conflict resolution professionals. The primary purpose of the present book is to fill this need for bridging the gap between scholarly theory and research, on the one hand, and, on the other, practical work in conflict resolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0791431010
• ISBN 13: 9780791431016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 260