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Conflict Resolution: Building Bridges (Roadmaps to Success)
Neil Katz and John W. Lawyer
In this, the first of three volumes on conflict resolution for school administrators, two foremost authorities on the top give you the critical knowledge you need to handle conflict constructively and creatively. Katz and Lawyer explore the nature of conflict and its principal sources. They suggest helpful attitudes for framing conflict and offer a process for defusing conflict at an interpersonal level or small group level.
This book explores how school administrators can deal with conflict constructively and creatively. The theoretical knowledge and practical skills presented will enable administrators to handle their own differences and disputes in a more effective manner, provide effective third party intervention to assist others manage their differences and facilitate the transference of these skills to others by modelling their use and benefits within the schools.
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Section 4: Conflict Resolution: Chapter 2:Communication and Conflict - Management Skills
Neil H. Katz and John W. Lawyer
A Peace Reader contains articles reflecting different and even opposing viewpoints, offering competing visions of the future. They range from the scholarly to the folksy; from the philosophical to the satirical; from the didactic to the poetic. In an effort to help students develop critical thinking skills, the authors include study questions after every major article. The result is a book as contemporary as today's headlines and as timeless as the wisdom of the ages.
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Chapter 12: Evaluation Research on Nonviolent Action
Neil Katz
As Gene Sharp has documented, nonviolent struggle has an Impressive, If often overlooked, history. Contemporary scholars are now beginning to research and discuss case studies of nonviolent action and the dynamics of nonviolent struggle. The latter literature focuses on how the strategy and tactics that each of the protagonists use help determine the outcomes in nonviolent action.
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Roman Catholicism and the Family
Mark J. Cavanaugh
American families and religions are facing a challenge -- the challenge of adapting to a rapidly changing society with a self-oriented culture. The contributors examine a spectrum of responses to changing social norms, and assess the role that religion plays in modern family life. They seek to interpret the problems faced by one of our most basic social institutions through a variety of perspectives. 'The macro perspective and editorial unity are everywhere evident, but readers will also appreciate many individual articles...Definitely recommended.' -- Choice, April 1984 '...taken together...the essays represent a good resource for anyone who wants a sociologically grounded understanding of the relationship between the family and religion in modern society.' -- Religious Studies Review, Vol 10 No 4, October 1984.
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Communication and Conflict Management Skills
Neil Katz and John W. Lawyer
This is the seminal work in interpersonal skills training. Dr. Neil Katz and John W. Lawyer present numerous invaluable frameworks for learning such skills as: active listening, problem solving, conflict management, assertion, and feedback
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Communication Skills for Ministry
John W. Lawyer and Neil Katz
This text enables individuals and teams, dedicated to helping others, develop strong communication and conflict management skills. It provides ample opportunities to enhance interpersonal skills, and consequently, your effectiveness. This in an invaluable resource for training and development programs
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Nonviolent Protest and Third Party Public Opinion: A Study of the June 1978, Seabrook, New Hampshire, Antinuclear Power Protest
Neil H. Katz and John P. Hunt
Political protest and nonviolent struggle have had a long history in the United States, dating back to colonial times. During the nineteenth century, nonviolence was associated with such causes as abolition, temperance, antimilitarism, and women's suffrage. More recently, the nonviolent tactics and strategies used in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s and 1960s spawned similar activity on a diverse array of issues, including urban poverty, Native American rights, welfare reform, homosexuality, women's rights, and environmental pollution. Although many of these movements have been chronicled and protest has been recognized as an effective method for influencing political and social policy, less is known about the ways by which protest operates to exert such effects.
One aspect of this process, the ability of protesters to influence third-party observers, forms the focus of the present study. Surveying the data collected shortly after the 1978 demonstration against the construction of the Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear power plant provides an opportunity to examine the views of local townspeople toward the antinuclear protesters. Specifically, this research addresses the following four groups of questions:
1. How did third-party observers view construction of the Seabrook nuclear power plant and how did they view demonstrations against construction in terms of legitimacy and appeal?
2. Did third parties perceive the protesters as immature troublemakers or as responsible citizens, and did third parties view the protest as mostly violent or mostly peaceful?
3. To what extent did the protest group's ability to contact the public and legitimize its issue increase its appeal ? Furthermore, how were the protest group's abilities to contact the public, to legitimize its issue, and to generate public appeal interrelated?
4. How did the social and ideological backgrounds of third-party observers relate to the ways in which they perceived protest?
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Chapter 13: Pragmatists and Visionaries in the Post World War II American Peace Movement: SANE and CNVA
Milton S. Katz and Neil Katz
This collection of twelve separately authored essays, analyzing various aspects of peace advocacy in six nations over a duration of nearly a century, manages to maintain a surprising unity of theme. Despite diversities of approach in essays as a group serve effectively, as Solomon Wank suggests, to destroy whatever remains of the "commonplace view of the peace movement as a monolith."
This chapter contains an account of SANE and CNVA in the United States that completes the book's collection.
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