Beyond Neutrality

Beschreibung

In this thought-provoking, passionately written book, Bernard Mayer--an internationally acclaimed leader in the field--dares practitioners to ask the hard questions about alternative dispute resolution. What's wrong with conflict resolution? Why aren't more individuals and organizations using conflict resolution when they have a problem? Why doesn't the public know more about it? What are the limits of conflict resolution? When does conflict resolution work and when does it not? Offering a committed practitioner's critique of the profession of mediation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution, Beyond Neutrality focuses on the current crisis in the field of conflict resolution and offers a pragmatic response.

Autor*in

Bernard Mayer

Themen in »Beyond Neutrality«

Business & Management Conflict Resolution & Mediation (Workplace Settings) Konfliktbewältigung am Arbeitsplatz Wirtschaft u. Management

Stimmen zu »Beyond Neutrality«

"In this passionate and provocative book, Bernie Mayerchallenges the field of conflict resolution to reinvent itself soas to include advocacy and engagement at its core. Mayer practiceswhat he preaches by engaging us in a vital discussion sure to stirproductive controversy." --William Ury, co-author, Getting to Yes and author, TheThird Side "Takes us into challenging and potentially transformingterritory by shedding light on how too narrow a commitment toneutrality or an exclusive focus on 'resolving'disputes can limit our usefulness in the clashes of passion,positions, and power struggles inherent in how people actuallyconfront (and avoid) their deepest conflicts." --Gail Bingham, president, RESOLVE, Inc. "As professional fields develop, people look back andidentify a few books that stand out because they markedturning points wherein the stroke of a pen incisively pushed boththeory and practice to a higher plane of understanding and purpose.Beyond Neutrality will mark such a place for the conflictresolution field in the first decade of this century." --John Paul Lederach, professor, the Kroc Institute and EasternMennonite University "This book will inspire conversations that will shape ourfield for years to come." --David Hart, CEO, Association for Conflict Resolution "Guaranteed to spark lively debate anddialogue." --Nina Meierding, former president, Academy of Family Mediators "The first major step toward the field's'second wave.'" --Christopher Honeyman, director, Broad Field Project "Berine Mayer's book is honest, forthright, nd filled with wiseand loving criticism for the field of conflict resolution heassignificantly helped to build." --Jay Rothman, president, ARIA Group, and author, ResolvingIdentity-Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations andCommunities "Mayer exposes some tough realities that focus on how wehave limited our identity, narrowly defined what we do, and whydisputants don't always like what we have tooffer." --Brian Polkinghorn, associate professor, Conflict Analysis andDispute Resolution, and executive director, Center for ConflictResolution, Salisbury University "Beyond Neutrality is a foundational work forcreating a deepened, more robust field. The premises of this bookwill be debated, revised, and expanded, but they will set theagenda for our field for the next generation." --Carl Schneider, director, Mediation Matters, Bethesda,Maryland
()

Details

Link teilen