Author: Andres Solimano
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: conflict, post, reconstruction, prevention, development, peace, essays, colombia
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2000-07
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0821346709
ISBN-13: 9780821346709

Author: Milton J. Bates
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: storytelling, conflict, cultural, vietnam, wars
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520204336
ISBN-13: 9780520204331

What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. In exploring the rich vein of writing and film that emerged from the Vietnam War era, he strikingly illuminates how these stories reflect American social crises of the period.Some material examined here is familiar, including the work of Michael Herr, Tim O’Brien, Philip Caputo, Susan Sontag, Francis Ford Coppola,

Author: Prakash Shah
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Keywords: diversity, law, cultural, coping, pluralism, conflict, legal
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-09-27
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 1904385583
ISBN-13: 9781904385585

Legal Pluralism in Conflict offers a new theoretical perspective for conceptualising and analysing the relationship between ethnic minority laws and the official legal order. Examining the limits of liberal legal thought in light of a contemporary plurality of ethnic identifications and religious beliefs, Prakash Shah takes up the case for a ’legal pluralism’ that views ethnic minority laws in interaction with the official British legal order. This form of legal pluralism is not, however, without conflict. This book pursues a series of case studies that critically consider why and

Author: Kevin Avruch
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace
Keywords: negotiation, books, cultural, cross, conflict, resolution, culture
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1878379828
ISBN-13: 9781878379825

After years of relative neglect, culture is finally receiving due recognition as a key factor in the evolution and resolution of conflicts. Unfortunately, however, when theorists and practitioners of conflict resolution speak of "culture," they often understand and use it in a bewildering and unhelpful variety of ways. With sophistication and lucidity, Culture and Conflict Resolution exposes these shortcomings and proposes an alternative conception in which culture is seen as dynamic and derivative of individual experience. The book explores divergent theories of social conflict and differin

Author: Carol L. Schmid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: pluralism, comparative, perspective, cultural, identity, language, conflict, politics
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2001-05-03
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0195137752
ISBN-13: 9780195137750

Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host to more bilingual people than any other country in the world. Language is more than a means of communication. It brings into play an entire range of experiences and attitudes toward life. Furthermore, language is a potent symbolic issue because it links power and political claims of ownership with psychological demands for group worth. How

Authors:Deborah A. Prentice, Dale T. Miller,
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: group, conflict, overcoming, understanding, divides, cultural
Number of Pages: 507
Published: 2001-08-23
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 0871546892
ISBN-13: 9780871546890

Author: Emmanuel ChukwudiEze
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: politics, history, amp, culture, racism, conflict, rationality, world, cultural, reason
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822341956
ISBN-13: 9780822341956

Given that Enlightenment rationality developed in Europe as European nations aggressively claimed other parts of the world for their own enrichment, scholars have made rationality the subject of postcolonial critique, questioning its universality and objectivity. In On Reason, the late philosopher Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze demonstrates that rationality, and by extension philosophy, need not be renounced as manifestations or tools of Western imperialism. Examining reason in connection to the politics of difference—the cluster of issues known variously as cultural diversity, political correctness,