Beyond Neutrality
Confronting the Crisis in Conflict Resolution
1. Auflage Mai 2004
336 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
In this thought-provoking, passionately written book, Bernard Mayer--an internationally acclaimed leader in the field--dares practitioners to ask the hard questions about alternative dispute resolution. What's wrong with conflict resolution? Why aren't more individuals and organizations using conflict resolution when they have a problem? Why doesn't the public know more about it? What are the limits of conflict resolution? When does conflict resolution work and when does it not? Offering a committed practitioner's critique of the profession of mediation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution, Beyond Neutrality focuses on the current crisis in the field of conflict resolution and offers a pragmatic response.
Part One: The Crisis.
1. Conflict Resolution: A Field in Crisis.
2. The Resistance to Conflict Resolution.
3. The Use (and Misuse) of Mediation.
4. Ten Beliefs That Get in Our Way.
5. Conflict Resolution and Society.
Part Two: From Resolution to Engagement.
6. The Power of Engagement.
7. The Conflict Specialist.
8. Embracing Advocacy.
9. Redefining Conflict Resolution.
References.
About the Author.
Index.
challenges the field of conflict resolution to reinvent itself so
as to include advocacy and engagement at its core. Mayer practices
what he preaches by engaging us in a vital discussion sure to stir
productive controversy."
--William Ury, co-author, Getting to Yes and author, The
Third Side
"Takes us into challenging and potentially transforming
territory by shedding light on how too narrow a commitment to
neutrality or an exclusive focus on 'resolving'
disputes can limit our usefulness in the clashes of passion,
positions, and power struggles inherent in how people actually
confront (and avoid) their deepest conflicts."
--Gail Bingham, president, RESOLVE, Inc.
"As professional fields develop, people look back and
identify a few books that stand out because they marked
turning points wherein the stroke of a pen incisively pushed both
theory and practice to a higher plane of understanding and purpose.
Beyond Neutrality will mark such a place for the conflict
resolution field in the first decade of this century."
--John Paul Lederach, professor, the Kroc Institute and Eastern
Mennonite University
"This book will inspire conversations that will shape our
field for years to come."
--David Hart, CEO, Association for Conflict Resolution
"Guaranteed to spark lively debate and
dialogue."
--Nina Meierding, former president, Academy of Family Mediators
"The first major step toward the field's
'second wave.'"
--Christopher Honeyman, director, Broad Field Project
"Berine Mayer's book is honest, forthright, nd filled with wise
and loving criticism for the field of conflict resolution heas
significantly helped to build."
--Jay Rothman, president, ARIA Group, and author, Resolving
Identity-Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations and
Communities
"Mayer exposes some tough realities that focus on how we
have limited our identity, narrowly defined what we do, and why
disputants don't always like what we have to
offer."
--Brian Polkinghorn, associate professor, Conflict Analysis and
Dispute Resolution, and executive director, Center for Conflict
Resolution, Salisbury University
"Beyond Neutrality is a foundational work for
creating a deepened, more robust field. The premises of this book
will be debated, revised, and expanded, but they will set the
agenda for our field for the next generation."
--Carl Schneider, director, Mediation Matters, Bethesda,
Maryland