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Toward the Theory and Practice of Appreciative Inquiry in Complex Peacebuilding, and Development Contexts
Mary H. Schwoebel and Erin McCandless
Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding is a path-breaking contribution to peacemaking for a global society. In a highly readable fashion, it combines theory and case studies, domestic and international experiences, and advocacy of innovative approaches along with appropriate caution against simplistic application of these practices. The theoretical frameworks are rich enough to satisfy scholars, the case studies are practical enough to engage practitioners and the tips and guides to practice are sure to inspire new and innovative work among peacebuilders. This book presents an innovative perspective on peacebuilding that breaks new ground while maintaining strong roots and relationships in tradition. The impact of this book on the reader and those with whom the reader works, will last a lifetime.
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Black Churches and the Environment in Miami
Eileen Smith-Cavros
In addition to being a religious countryùover ninety percent of Americans believe in God--the United States is also home to more immigrants than ever before. Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City focuses on the intersection of religion and civic engagement among Miami's immigrant and minority groups. The contributors examine the role of religious organizations in developing social relationships and how these relationships affect the broader civic world. Essays, for example, consider the role of leadership in the promotion and creation of "civic social capital" in a Haitian Catholic church, transnational ties between Cuban Catholics in Miami and Havana, and several African American congregations that serve as key comparisons of civic engagement among minorities.
This book is important not only for its theoretical contributions to the sociology of religion, but also because it gives us a unique glimpse into immigrants' civic and religious lives in urban America.
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Maria Montessori and Peace Education
Cheryl Lynn Duckworth
The rise of peace education both in scholarship and in practice has yielded numerous documents, websites, and publications with often divergent perspectives on what the field is, does, and means. The Encyclopedia of Peace Education provides a comprehensive overview of the scholarly developments in the field to date, so as to provide a common denominator for the various actors involved in advancing peace education internationally. Thus, this edited volume serves as an essential reference guide that traces the history and emergence of the field, highlights foundational concepts, contextualizes peace education practice across international and disciplinary borders, and suggests new directions for peace educators. From core conceptual perspectives to the moral and spiritual foundations of the field to the role of the United Nations, the Encyclopedia grounds peace education in a solid theoretical and practical framework through the writings of the field's most renowned scholars. This volume will target undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and practitioners working in international and non-governmental organizations in the field of peace education.
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Mediation
Judith McKay
Social problems affect everyone. Because so many actual and potential problems confront us, it is often difficult to decide which ones affect us most severely. Is it the threat of death or injury during a terrorist attack? Is it the threat caused by industrial pollution that may poison us or destroy our physical environment? Or does quiet but viciously damaging gender, age, class, racial, or ethnic discrimination have the most far-reaching effect? Do the problems of cities affect us if we live in the suburbs? Do poorer nations′ problems with overpopulation affect our quality of life?
The Encyclopedia of Social Problems offers an interdisciplinary perspective into many social issues that are a continuing concern in our lives, whether we confront them on a personal, local, regional, national, or global level. With more than 600 entries, these two volumes cover all of the major theories, approaches, and contemporary issues in social problems and also provide insight into how social conditions get defined as social problems, and the ways different people and organizations view and try to solve them.
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Oil Diamonds and Human Rights in the Marketplace: Campaigning to stop the capitalization of Sudanese oil development and the international trade in conflict diamonds
Ismael Muvingi
This book explores the processes and outcomes of two US social justice campaigns against the violence associated with extractive industries in Sierra Leone, Angola and Sudan: The Campaign to Eliminate Conflict Diamonds and the Capital Markets Sanctions Campaign. The book provides a narrative of the campaigns and advances two arguments. It challenges the notion that social movements cohese on the basis of commonality of principle and argues that based on the studies, ideologically diverse coalition participants can successfully prosecute campaigns based on strategic operationalization. Secondly, most social movement scholarship is state centric inits analysis of the opportunity structures that enable mobilization and movement processes. This book illustrates that opportunities for social justice action also reside in the free market and are therefore better understood through a tripartite institutional, discursive and strategic opportunity structure framework of analysis. The analysis sheds more understanding of these specific initiatives as well as the operationalization of coalition campaigns and will be of interest to university students,scholars and social justice activists.
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Enhancing Mediator Artistry: Multiple Frames, Spirit and Reflection in Action
Neil H. Katz
This handbook invites readers who are interested in mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution to share the perspectives of experts in the field.
- Contributors include scholars, mediators, trainers and negotiators, all of whom are passionate about their work.
- Emphasises both internal and external factors as important sources of influence when negotiating conflicts.
- Explores the cultural and institutional frameworks that have shaped intervention processes.
- Considers what techniques might work when, how and why.
- Demonstrates the sophistication of contemporary studies of mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution.
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Interpersonal Communication and Conflict Management Skills Workshop: A Training Guide for Workshop Leaders and Facilitators
Neil H. Katz
This booklet is designed to be a teaching guide for trainers for a generic workshop in interpersonal and small group communication and conflict management skills. The specific skills emphasized in this booklet are reflective listening, problem solving, assertion, and conflict management of needs and values.
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Pioneers Voices of Zion Canyon
Eileen M. Smith-Carvos
Introduction by Lyman Hafen and Photographs by Michael Plyler
Published by Zion Natural History Association, read the words and feel the stories of second and third generation pioneers of the greater Zion National Park area which were assembled during the Pioneer Voices of Zion Canyon Project in 2004. The project compiled oral histories of interviewees who lived or worked inside what is now Zion National Park from the 1910’s – 1930’s, while others lived nearby in Rockville, Springdale and Grafton, Utah.
In their own voices they explain what it was like to live in this inspiring place in a time of transition, to struggle with a seemingly impassive land and to share the joy, hardship, faith, love, frustration, death, and triumphs while coming of age in a land called Zion.
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(Part 4: Participation and Cultural Change) Chapter 10: Women and Water in the Northern Ecuadorean Andes
Elena Bastidas
This book represents an important contribution to a growing subfield of feminist scholarship. Moving beyond a focus on the traditional policy areas normally associated with women and politics, the authors bring a gender analysis to bear on the “politics of water” in Latin America. Not only is this a policy issue not usually linked to women's rights, but, as the editors argue, even the national-level women's policy agencies created in many Latin American countries have overlooked the way gender discrimination impacts the heightening water crisis facing much of the region. Nevertheless, they maintain that “the right to water underpins all other social rights” (p. 15) and that “a gender perspective is not only possible but essential for effective water management” (p. ix).
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A New Direction in Teaching Global Solidarity; Partnering with Catholic Relief Services
Suzanne C. Toton and Ismael Muvingi
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Analysis to Action: A Guidebook For Conflict-Sensitive USAID Programming in Africa
Mary H. Schwoebel, Michael Lund, Chloe Schwenke, Bob Leavitt, Ajit Joshi, and Stephen Ndegwa
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Your Heart is Never Free: Women at Wales and Ghana talking about distress
Vivienne Walters, Joyce Avotri-Wuaku, and Nickie Charles
It is well known that depression occurs more often in women than in men. It is the most commonly encountered mental health problem among women and ranks overall as one of the most important women's health problems.
Researchers have studied depression a great deal, yet women's depression has rarely been the primary focus. The contexts of women's lives which might contribute to their depression are not often addressed by the mental health establishment, which tends to focus on biological factors. Situating Sadness sheds light on the influence of sociocultural factors, such as economic distress, child-bearing or child-care difficulties, or feelings of powerlessness which may play a significant role, and points to the importance of context for understanding women’s depression.
Situating Sadness draws on research in the United States and other parts of the world to look at depression through the eyes of women, exploring what being depressed is like in diverse social and cultural circumstances. It demonstrates that understanding depression requires close attention to the social context in which women become depressed. -
Co-Payment of a Traffic Ticket
Honggang Yang
Three Chinese families (including mine) resided near the university where we adults were going to graduate school. We got along well and often watched one another’s children during classes. For the summer break, we decided to go on a trip together, since few of us had had a chance to see the eastern part of the United States and Canada. Each family had one child, making nine people in all. Financially, the families could not afford to go separately, which was why we wanted to go as a group. We intended to share all the expenses—including auto rental and insurance, gasoline, the cost of the luggage rack, accommodation, and child care—and to take turns driving.
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Revitalizing Relief Capacity as Part of the General Reconstruction Program in Uganda
Bertha K. Amisi and Monica Kathina Juma
Book Description: A critical examination of the interplay between international and local actors operating in the humanitarian arena in Africa. All sides emphasise the need to build local capacity for humanitarian action, yet the results have not been substantial. Even long-term, semi-permanent emergencies have generated little local capacity to assist and protect the victims of violence, displacement and related deprivations. In some cases, whatever local capacity did exist has been overwhelmed by the international aid presence. Why is this so? What is the case for a more even division of labour between North and South in this area, and why is it so difficult to bring about? The book focuses on cases from East Africa and the Horn. It considers institutional capacity in the public and private sector, as well as legal and social norms of humanitarian action.
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Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
Erin McCandless and Mary H. Schwoebel
World at Risk provides international coverage through an examination of current global issues. This extensive sourcebook is arranged by global issue in A to Z format. The book includes 30 entries on hot topics such as human rights, population, literacy and educational access, energy, terrorism, war crimes, and much more. Each topic entry includes: [yen] Introduction. Introduces and defines the issue in a global context. [yen] Historical Development. Situates the issue historically within the international community. [yen] Current Research, Policies, and Programs. Summarizes the latest studies and research on the issue, such as reports from non-governmental organizations (NGO's), key scholarly research, as well as a brief synopsis of the types of policies and programs that have been developed to answer the problems raised by the issue. [yen] Comparative World Map. Illustrates key statistical performance benchmarks concerning the issue. [yen] Regional Summaries. Analyses the impact the issue has had on specific regions around the world. [yen] Statistical Data. Examines research data that best illustrate the issue. [yen] Case Study. Provides one or two local close-ups on the issue and show how it has affected a specific community, country, or region. [yen] Biographies. Includes brief biographies of historical and contemporary individuals helped who have helped shape the thinking and action concerning the issue throughout the world. [yen] Directory. Provides a list of the relevant agencies, lobbying groups, and organizations with contact information. [yen] Further Research. Directs readers to books, reports, newspaper articles, and Web sites where they can learn more about the subject. [yen] Documents. Includes exerpts from the most important documents relating to findings and research such as programmatic statements and legislation. Tables, appendices, and an index are also provided. This ready reference will be most useful to academic, public, and high school libraries and their patrons
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Learning to MERGE: Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis
Marianne Schmink, Susan Paulson, and Elena Bastidas
Unpublished Book
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Collaborative Negotiation: The Core of Nameless Change
Neil Katz
Today's leaders face unprecedented demands for rapid and continual improvement of their organizations. In his organization development practice, author Glenn Allen-Meyer witnesses the way in which leading organizations 'sell' changes to employees for their participation and 'buy-in'. Drawing on this research, "Nameless Organizational Change" offers a new approach for transforming organizations, providing a reliable, revolutionary way to achieve goals and hit performance targets without the expense, stress, and resistance so often experienced during major organizational change.
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"Thinking too much" and "Worrying too much": Ghanaian women's accounts of their health problems
Joyce Avotri-Wuaku
Women’s voices are usually absent in the literature on women’s health in developing countries. As a consequence, we know little about women’s own concerns about their health, the ways in which they understand the problems they experience, how they cope and what changes they feel would help to improve their health. The information on women in developing countries is typically provided by academics, health professionals, non-governmental organizations and policy makers. We do not know whether this captures the views of women themselves. Moreover, explanations of women’s health often rely on biomedical and cultural/behavioural models and we do not know whether these reflect women’s own approaches to understanding their health. Drawing largely on their own voices, this manuscript documents the health problems and concerns of women in Ghana, more specifically women in Kpando, a town in the Volta region of Southern Ghana. The manuscript builds on the concept of the social production of illness, to show how the women of Kpando traced their health problems to the social and material conditions under which they lived.
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Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution
Alvin W. Wolfe and Honggang Yang
Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution consists of ten essays that make vividly apparent the variety of ways that anthropological approaches and perspectives can be of practical worth in the resolution of conflicts. The essays represent various subdisciplines in anthropology, including legal and political anthropology, economic anthropology, cross-cultural studies, interpretive approaches, and social network approaches.
Conflicts and potential conflicts at many levels are the subjects of the essays. One contributor uses an ethnographic account of Sikh separatists in Punjab, India, to explore fighting resulting from the intertwining of religion and politics. Another essay discusses the role that anthropology played in conceptualizing the legal reforms on an island in the remote western Pacific in relation to the recent emergence of alternative dispute resolution. Conflicts over the commons in an American suburb are examined, as are harmony ideology and adversarial ideology as they are used for both freedom and control at a manufacturing plant. The introductory essay includes a discussion of network models in regard to conflict resolution, and the epilogue cites an agenda for applied research in the area.
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Resolving Conflict Successfully: Needed Knowledge and Skills (Roadmaps to Success)
Neil H. Katz and John W. Lawyer
This book is the second of a three-volume series on conflict resolution for educational administrators. Following the introduction, the first three chapters discuss the following communication skills critical to communication--building rapport, listening and pacing, and chunking and problem solving. Chapter 4 provides a generic problem-solving model and an example of an actual conflict situation that was successfully resolved using the skills outlined in the book. Nineteen figures and 12 annotated references are included.
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Preventing and Managing Conflict in Schools (Roadmaps to Success)
Neil Katz and John W. Lawyer
The authors of this book, leading authorities on the topic of conflict resolution, introduce tested and effective strategies for preventing and managing conflict in both interpersonal and group settings and offer some additional strategies for managing conflict as a third party. This helpful book will greatly enhance the school administrator′s ability to ensure that human interaction over differences is both constructive and productive.
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