Culture And Conflict In Global Perspective

Author : Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher : Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783867932790

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Culture and Conflict in Global Perspective by Bertelsmann Stiftung Pdf

Has Samuel Huntington's proposed "clash of civilizations" actually happened in the post-1945 era? Events such as 9/11 2001 or the crisis due to caricatures of Mohammed might suggest it has. The topic of culture and conflict has been the subject of fierce debate among scholars and the public alike over the last two decades. The Bertelsmann Stiftung, which has been committed to promoting international cultural dialogue for many years now, is publishing "Culture and Conflict in Global Perspective", a theoretically-informed definition of cultural conflicts and a world-wide mapping of such conflicts between 1945 and 2007. The publication is based on an empirical study that explores in what conflicts cultural factors played a role and to what extent they influenced the intensity of violence in the respective conflicts. The study and the explanations derived from it form an important instrument to foster cultural dialogue for peaceful coexistence in a globalized world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : International relations
ISBN : OCLC:1412663853

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Culture and Conflict in Global Perspective by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stefan Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192805881

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Ethnic Conflict by Stefan Wolff Pdf

Why is it that Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland have been in perpetual conflict for thirty years when they can live and prosper together elsewhere? Why was there a bloody civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina when Croats, Serbs, and Muslims had lived peacefully side-by-side fordecades? Why did nobody see and act upon the early warning signs of genocide in Rwanda that eventually killed close to a million people in a matter of weeks? What is it that makes Kashmir potentially worth a nuclear war between India and Pakistan?In recent years hardly a day has gone by when ethnic conflict in some part of the world has not made headline news. The violence involved in these conflicts continues to destabilize entire regions, hamper social and economic development, and cause unimaginable human suffering. And the extensivemedia coverage of these conflicts all too often raises important questions that it signally fails to answer.This book aims to fill this gap. Drawing on the author's long experience of studying such conflicts around the world and his involvment in attempts to resolve them, it provides an illuminating and accessible introduction to the origins, dynamics, and management of ethnic conflict. In doing so, ithelps explain the fundamental question underlying all these conflicts: why do nationalism and ethnicity still have such terrible power to turn neighbour against neighbour?

Author : M. Afzalur Rahim,Albert A. Blum
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032975842

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Global Perspectives on Organizational Conflict by M. Afzalur Rahim,Albert A. Blum Pdf

Comprises seven papers on conflict management in different countries. Examines social, cultural and economic factors, managerial styles, styles of handling interpersonal conflict, and alternative dispute management procedures.

Author : Nancy T. Watson,Lei Xie,Matthew J. Etchells
Publisher : IAP
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641133746

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Cultural Impact on Conflict Management in Higher Education by Nancy T. Watson,Lei Xie,Matthew J. Etchells Pdf

Cultural Impact on Conflict Management in Higher Education shares information regarding conflict management and resolution in higher education from a global perspective. In this book, we introduced many conflict resolution methods from different regions in the world. You can borrow some successful strategies and examine the differences and similarities between contexts. The book shares a conflict resolution model which may direct the reader to start thinking about addressing and managing conflicts from different levels of organizations. This book is a collective work of authors coming from all over the world. We chose higher education as the context because it is a place where diverse thoughts, perspectives, and people come together. Because of the potential richness of diversity on a college campus, the opportunity for conflicts occurs. Managing conflict does not work when there is a “one-way only approach/model” for addressing conflict. Some conflict resolution encompasses multiple dimensions: (a) one’s personal beliefs or beliefs about an issue; (b) an individual’s personal history in terms of how the conflict was perceived as something to be discussed or not; (c) work culture of the conflict where if ‘one has a conflict,’ the person or unit is messing up or there is a problem person; (d) the unconscious strategies of ‘face saving’ (trying to maintain one’s image) present; (e) social hierarchies or relationships; and (f) the diversity dimensions and issues that may be present.

Author : Nancy T. Watson,Karan L. Watson,Christine A. Stanley
Publisher : IAP
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781641130950

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Conflict Management and Dialogue in Higher Education by Nancy T. Watson,Karan L. Watson,Christine A. Stanley Pdf

This book addresses an important topic - Conflict, mediation and dialogue. Conflicts are a part of life. Although many people assume conflicts are negative and, therefore, should be avoided, conflict is truly neutral. The engagement in conflict is what can be constructive or destructive. There are many positive outcomes experienced when a conflict is well managed, hence the critical role of this book. For instance, most change is driven by some level of conflict. You must learn, grow and develop effective conflict management skills as a way to manage change. Thus, the conflicts we deal with in our personal lives and in the workplace are essential to our development and our organizations' healthy development. However, if managed poorly, some conflicts can escalate to the point that they can destroy individuals or organizations. As illustrated in this book, the key to managing conflicts is to understand conflicts; expect conflicts, and manage conflicts before they escalate into destructive or costly loss of personnel, diminished climate or lead to lawsuits. The book provides one of the growing and recognized methods of dealing with conflicts - mediation and dialogue. The contents of this book reflect areas of importance addressed in mediation training: alternative dispute resolution practices, conflict management intervention options, models of thinking about conflict, the mediation format, and the skill set needed by a strong conflict management and mediator. Readers are challenged to reflect upon their biases and beliefs that may negatively impact the mediation process.

Author : Stephen M. Croucher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317506522

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Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication by Stephen M. Croucher Pdf

What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geographic, religious, theoretical, and/or methodological perspective, with an emphasis on non-Western approaches, including Buddhist, South American, Muslim, and Chinese perspectives. Featuring the voices of a range of international contributors, this new textbook presents the full breadth of diverse approaches to intercultural communication and showcases the economic, political, and cultural/societal needs for and benefits of communicative competence.

Author : Marshall H. Segall
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015047553378

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Human Behavior in Global Perspective by Marshall H. Segall Pdf

This book emphasizes the need to explore human behavior in its socio-cultural context. Designed for upper level undergraduate courses or graduate level courses.

Author : Jack David Eller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0472085387

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From Culture to Ethnicity to Conflict by Jack David Eller Pdf

A responsible guide to understanding ethnic conflict, with five major case studies

Author : International Peace Research Association. General Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : International relations
ISBN : UOM:39015043700056

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Peace Studies from a Global Perspective by International Peace Research Association. General Conference Pdf

Author : Tarja Vayrynen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526130990

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Culture and international conflict resolution by Tarja Vayrynen Pdf

This book re-examines conflict resolution – and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution – from a new perspective. The book is a critical study of John Burton’s work, and outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict. It provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle. Väyrynen argues that culture has a constitutive role in international conflict and conflict resolution. Culture offers a grammar for acting in and interpreting the world, and provides understandings of conflict and its resolution. Theories which deny the importance of cultural failure to understand the ontological conditions of human ‘being’.

Author : Kenneth Christie
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Asia
ISBN : 070071118X

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Ethnic Conflict, Tribal Politics by Kenneth Christie Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : Helmut K Anheier,Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412934729

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Cultures and Globalization by Helmut K Anheier,Yudhishthir Raj Isar Pdf

The world's cultures and their forms of creation, presentation, and preservation are deeply affected by globalization in ways that are inadequately documented and understood. This book is designed to fill this glaring gap in our knowledge. Analyzing the relationship between globalization and cultures is the core objective of this volume. In it leading experts track cultural trends in all regions of the world, covering issues ranging from the role of cultural difference in politics and governance to heritage conservation, artistic expression, and the cultural industries. The book also includes a data section that consolidates the recently commenced but still inchoate work of cultural indicators. The publication of this book marks the inauguration of a series of books on World Cultures. Like so many other phenomena that characterize and are generated by globalization, conflict/culture relationships remain inadequately analyzed. This applies in particular to cultural identities and their forms of expression, creation, maintenance and renewal. The theme is not only to ensure well-being of the cultural-artistic dimension in the process of globalization. More than that, and in a broad and genuine sense, this book and the series as a whole are meant to serve the cause of peace and security through open debate, learning and understanding.

Author : Shirley A. Fedorak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442605961

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Global Issues by Shirley A. Fedorak Pdf

Global Issues is a pedagogically rich book that addresses prominent issues of contemporary concern.

Author : Carleton Stevens Coon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049693180

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Culture Wars and the Global Village by Carleton Stevens Coon Pdf

"The answer, says career diplomat Carl Coon, must be sought in the distant prehistoric past, when intergroup hostility became ingrained as a pattern of cultural evolution. We are where we are now because our ancestors, for thousands of generations, organized themselves in distinctive groups that competed with each other, sometimes peacefully, but very often through violent struggle. We still witness this ancient pattern of animosity when the intermingling of different ways of life results not in harmonious cooperation, but in regional wars and conficts.".