The Nature of Intractable Conflict
Resolution in the Twenty-First Century
Published on 11. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 353 pages
978-1-4039-4519-8 (ISBN)
Description
Building upon Mitchell's earlier work, The Structure of International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving insoluble disputes.
Reviews / Votes
"The Nature of Intractable Conflict is a valuable compendium, enriched by Mitchell's pursuit of distilling relevant but over-researched topics. Moreover, his own insights scattered throughout the text links his survey of the subject of intractability with emerging trends in current scholarship, which makes this book a relevant signpost in new research." (Ian Niccolo V. Tobia, European Review of International Studies, Vol. 3 (3), 2016)
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Edition
2014 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XI, 353 p.
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
504 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-4519-8 (9781403945198)
DOI
10.1057/9781137454157
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Person
Christopher Mitchell is an Emeritus Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA. He has written extensively on informal mediation, track two facilitation and local level peace-building. In 1981 he published one of the first ever textbooks in the field, The Structure of International Conflict, to which this volume is a follow up.
Content
Foreword 1. Compulsion; Natural Born Killers? 2. Formation: Sources and Emergence 3. Classification; Intractable Conflicts 4. Perpetuation; Dynamics and Intractability 5. Prevention 6. Mitigation 7. Regulation: Conflict Within Limits 8. Institutionalisation 9. Termination I: Keeping the Peace 10. Termination II: Resolving the Issues 11. Creation; Towards Transformation 12. Reconciliation; Ending the Hatred Afterword