A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic ConflictsMany of the deep-rooted human conflicts that seize our attention today are not ready for formal mediation and negotiation. People do not negotiate about identity, fear, historic grievance, and injustice. Sustained dialogue provides a space where citizens outside government can change their conflictual relationships. Governments can negotiate binding agreements and enforce and implement them, but only citizens can change human relationships. Governments have long had their tools of diplomacy - mediation, negotiation, force, and allocation of resources. Harold H. Saunders' A Public Peace Process provides citizens outside government with their own instrument for transforming conflict. Saunders outlines a systematic approach for citizens to use in reducing racial, ethnic, and other deep-rooted tensions in their countries, communities, and organizations. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION The Challenges of Conflict | 1 |
A Conceptual | 18 |
CHAPTER TWO Changing Conflictual Relationships | 31 |
CHAPTER THREE Citizens Politics in Civil Society | 47 |
CHAPTER FOUR International Relationships | 69 |
CHAPTER FIVE The Dialogue Process | 81 |
CHAPTER SEVEN The InterTajik Dialogue | 146 |
Dialogue on Race Relations | 171 |
Palestinian | 197 |
CHAPTER TEN Evaluating Sustained Dialogue 221 | 220 |
A Public | 243 |
Organizers and Moderators Manual | 251 |
Endnotes 305 | 304 |
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