Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions

Extending Kelman's Legacy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-37507-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman.

Interactive problem solving, as developed by Kelman and others, sought to increase understanding about the microprocesses of international relations. Kelman early on emphasised the centrality of an interactive approach for constructing new identities, new narratives, and new ways forward. Transforming conflict systems requires strategic attention to the interactions between agents of change that provide stability or induce shift. This volume on interactive conflict approaches includes both critical reflections and new ideas from scholar-practitioners who have developed, revised, and expanded these approaches. Contributors take up important issues, from the shape and likelihood of solutions in intractable conflicts to how individuals can exist in realities with seemingly irresolvable inner and outer conflicts. The volume represents the best of current thinking about how the mechanisms, theoretical framework, and application of interactive problem solving should be moved into the twenty-first century context of increasing complexity, increasing uncertainty, and increasing polarisation.

This book will be of interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Estrée, Tamra Pearson

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword  Preface  1. Introduction  Part I: Complex Intractable Conflict, Theoretical Lenses, and the Vision of Herbert Kelman  2. Interactive Conflict Transformation through a Complexity Lens: Local Actors, Interaction, and the Dynamics of Change  3. Kelman’s Theoretical Brilliance: Complete Social Psychologist and Consummate Conflict Resolution Scholar–Practitioner  4. ‘Conceptualizing Change in the World System’: Towards a More Complex and Comprehensive Understanding of Peace and Conflict Research  5. Critical Realism and Interactive Conflict Transformation: Connecting Integrative Metatheory, Multi–dimensional Social Theory, and Transformative Practice  Part II: Expanding Our Scope  6.  Interactive Conflict Engagement 2.0: From Solving Problems to Enabling Systems to Sustain Peace  7. Individual Agency in Interactive Peacemaking: Insights from Georgian–South Ossetian Experience  8. Building a Human Infrastructure Across Conflict Lines for Reconciliation and Coexistence: The Case of Cyprus  9. Broadening the Use of Interactive Problem Solving  10. Addressing Persistent Fault Lines in Multi–Ethnic States: Using Inter– and Intra–group Dialogues on Widening Identities and Narratives, Commemoration and Minority Rights  Part III: Evolving Our Focus  11. Exploring Reconciliation’s Identity Paradoxes  12. Moving Beyond Dichotomies of Narratives and Identity: The Transformative Process of Dialogue  13. Acknowledging, Understanding, and Adapting to the Complexity of Radical Disagreement  14. Engaging in the Face of Non–Negotiability: From Resolution to Transformation  15. Learning to Accommodate Others’ Worldviews  16. Applying a Complex Systems Lens to Interactive Conflict Resolution: Themes and Lessons

Über Autor(innen)

Tamra Pearson d’Estrée is Professor of Conflict Resolution in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA. She is co-author, with Bonnie G. Colby, of Braving the Currents: Evaluating Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West (2004), a co-editor, with Ruth Parsons, of Cultural Encounters and Emergent Practices in Conflict Resolution Capacity-Building (2018), and the editor of New Directions in Peacebuilding Evaluation (2019).