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Creating the Third Force - Indigenous Processes of Peacemaking (Paperback)
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Creating the Third Force - Indigenous Processes of Peacemaking (Paperback)
Series: Peace and Conflict Studies
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The profession of peacemaking has been practiced by indigenous
communities around the world for many centuries; however, the
ethnocentric world view of the West, which dominated the world of
ideas for the last five centuries, dismissed indigenous forms of
peacemaking as irrelevant and backward tribal rituals. Neither did
indigenous forms of peacemaking fit the conception of modernization
and development of the new ruling elites who inherited the
postcolonial state. The new profession of Alternative Dispute
Resolution (ADR), which emerged in the West as a new profession
during the 1970s, neglected the tradition and practice of
indigenous forms of peacemaking. The scant literature which has
appeared on this critical subject tends to focus on the ritual
aspect of the indigenous practices of peacemaking. The goal of this
book is to fill this lacuna in scholarship. More specifically, this
work focuses on the process of peacemaking, exploring the major
steps of process of peacemaking which the peacemakers follow in
dislodging antagonists from the stage of hostile confrontation to
peaceful resolution of disputes and eventual reconciliation. The
book commences with a critique of ADR for neglecting indigenous
processes of peacemaking and then utilizes case studies from
different communities around the world to focus on the following
major themes: the basic structure of peacemaking process; change
and continuity in the traditions of peacemaking; the role of
indigenous women in peacemaking; the nature of the tools
peacemakers deploy; common features found in indigenous processes
of peacemaking; and the overarching goals of peacemaking activities
in indigenous communities.
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