Constructive Conflict Management: Asia-Pacific Cases

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8039-5949-1
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: Asia Pacific Cases

Styles of conflict management vary across cultures. This unique volume uses cases drawn from the Asian and Pacific Island area to illustrate culture's role in conflict mediation. The contributors focus in particular on how conflict within and between cultures can be successfully mediated on the micro-level (businesses and individuals) and how this success can be applied on the macro-level (government and organizations).

The cases examined in Constructive Conflict Management cover a variety of conflict types including: regional/cultural; nuclear and extended family; environmental; and neighbourhood disputes. The book reveals that, rather than a barrier, culture can prove to be a positive resource for the mediation of multicultural conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pedersen, Paul B.

Jandt, Fred E.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jandt, Fred Edmund

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forewords - Kevin P Clements, Gordon Hein, Johan Saravanamuttu
INTRODUCTION
Culturally Contextual Models for Creative Conflict Management - Paul B Pederson and Fred E Jandt
PART ONE: THE REGIONAL/CULTURAL CONTEXT
Community Mediation in Malaysia - Wan Halim Othman
A Pilot Program for the Department of National Unity
The Reconciliation System of the Republic of China - Shir-Shing Huang
The Moral Recovery Program as a Political Tool for Social Transformation in the Philippines - Maraya de Jesus Chebat
PART TWO: NUCLEAR FAMILY CONFLICT
Culture and Conflict in Canada - Michelle LeBaron
Tradition and Transition
Nabin and Nasima - Madaripur Legal Aid Association
A Clash of Hindu and Muslim Communities
Khukumoni and Masud - Madaripur Legal Aid Association
Living Happily Now
Rawshan Ara - Madaripur Legal Aid Association
The Victim of Polygamy
PART THREE: EXTENDED FAMILY CONFLICT
Conflict over the Role of Women in Contemporary China - Xue Wang
Prospects for Liberation and Resolution
The Effects of Tribal Wars on Personal and Family Disputes in Papua New Guinea - Julie Forster Smith
Mediation, an Effective Way of Conflict Resolution - Ariya Rubasinghe
Sri Lanka Experience
PART FOUR: LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT
Ishaq Gets Back Land after 40 Years - Madaripur Legal Aid Association
Vendetta and Buddhist Mediator in Southern Thailand - Chalidaporn Songsamphan
Tiger Saves Taiga - Jae Hyun Yoo
Saving the Siberian Ecosystem from Hyundai's Logging Operations
Toxic Waste Management in Malaysia - Gurmit Singh
The Dumping of Industrial Waste in Teshima, Japan - Masaki Yokoyama
PART FIVE: BUSINESS CONFLICTS
Child Labor in Nepal's Carpet Industries - Gauri Pradhan
Arbitration in Thailand - Nacha Worawatanamateekul
China and Japan Dispute Copyright of `Ultraman' Toys - Lu Guojiang
PART SIX: NEIGHBORHOOD DISPUTES
Han and Hui and a Shared Cooking Stove - Lu Guojiang
Citizens' Right to Their Reputation - Lu Guojiang
Manakamana Village's Demand for Drinking Water - Jagadish C Pokharel
PART SEVEN: CONFLICTS INVOLVING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
An Indigenous Perspective on an Aspect of Reconciliation - Pauline Tangiora
Philippine Rural Development and Indigenous Communities - Eduardo C Tadem
Aytas and the Sacobia Project
Recent Attempt at Ethnic Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka - Jayadeva Uyangoda
CONCLUSION
The Cultural Context of Mediation and Constructive Conflict Management - Fred E Jandt and Paul B Pedersen

Über Autor(innen)

Pedersen, Paul B.
Paul B. Pedersen is a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii and professor emeritus at Syracuse University. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and for six years at universities in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Pedersen was also on the summer school faculty at Harvard University, 1984-988 and the University of Pittsburgh “semester at sea” voyage around the world, spring 1992. International experience includes numerous consulting experiences in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and Europe, and a Senior Fulbright award teaching at National Taiwan University 1999-2000. He has authored, co-authored or edited 40 books, 99 articles, and 72 chapters on aspects of multicultural counseling and international communication. Pedersen is a fellow in Divisions 9, 17, 45 and 52 of the American Psychological Association.

Jandt, Fred E.
Fred E. Jandt was born of second-generation German immigrants in the multicultural south-central region of Texas. After graduating from Texas Lutheran University and Stephen F. Austin State University, he received his doctorate in communication from Bowling Green State University. He has taught and been a student of intercultural communication for more than 4 decades, developing his experience through travel and international training and research projects. While professor of communication at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, his reputation as a teacher led to his appointment as SUNY's first director of faculty development. He has retired as professor and branch campus dean after having been named outstanding professor. He has also been a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. He has extensive experience in the areas of intercultural and international communication, negotiation, mediation, and conflict management. He was one of the first scholars to introduce the study of conflict to the communication discipline with his text Conflict Resolution Through Communication (Harper & Row, 1973). He has subsequently published many other titles in this area, including the successful trade book Win-Win Negotiating: Turning Conflict Into Agreement (Wiley, 1985), which has been translated into eight languages; a casebook on international conflict management, Constructive Conflict Management: Asia-Pacific Cases (SAGE, 1996), with Paul B. Pedersen; Conflict and Communication, Third Edition (Cognella, 2025); and Negotiation and Mediation (Cognella, 2025). For several years, he conducted the training workshop “Managing Conflict Productively” for major corporations and government agencies throughout the United States. Jandt continues to train volunteers who are learning to become mediators in the California justice system and served as an elected trustee of the Desert Community College District.