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Wicked Problems - The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice (Hardcover)
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Wicked Problems - The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice (Hardcover)
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The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear
straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize
suffering. Sounds simple, right? Actually acting ethically when it
really matters is rarely straightforward. If someone engaged in
change-oriented work sets out to "do good," how should we
prioritize and evaluate whose good counts? And, how ought we act
once we have decided whose good counts? Practitioners frequently
confront dilemmas where dire situations may demand some form of
response, but each of the options may have undesirable consequences
of one form or another. Dilemmas are not merely ordinary problems,
they are wicked problems: that is to say, they are defined by
circumstances that only allow for suboptimal outcomes and are based
on profound and sometimes troubling trade-offs. Wicked Problems
argues that the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation
needs a stronger and more practical sense of its ethical
obligations. For example, it argues against posing false binaries
between domestic and international issues and against viewing
violence and conflict as equivalents. It holds strategic
nonviolence up to critical scrutiny and shows that "do no harm"
approaches may in fact do harm. The contributors include scholars,
scholar practitioners in the field, and activists on the streets,
and the chapters cover the role of violence in conflict; conflict
and violence prevention and resolution; humanitarianism; community
organizing and racial justice; social movements; human rights
advocacy; transitional justice; political reconciliation; and peace
education and pedagogy, among other topics. Drawing on the lived
experiences and expertise of activists, educators, and researchers,
Wicked Problems equips readers to ask-and answer-difficult
questions about social change work.
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