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Dealing with Differences - Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes (Hardcover, New)
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Dealing with Differences - Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes (Hardcover, New)
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Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.
Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of
conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to
accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is
a perennial challenge for activists, politicians, planners, and
policymakers. John Forester is one of America's eminent scholars of
progressive planning and dispute resolution in the policy arena,
and in Dealing with Differences he focuses on a series of 'hard
cases'--conflicts that appeared to be insoluble yet which were
resolved in the end. Forester ranges across the country--from
Hawaii to Maryland to Washington State--and across issues--the
environment, ethnic conflict, and HIV. Throughout, he focuses on
how innovative mediators settled seemingly intractable disputes.
Between pessimism masquerading as 'realism' and the unrealistic
idealism that 'we can all get along, ' Forester identifies the
middle terrain where disputes do actually get resolved in ways that
offer something for all sides. Dealing with Differences serves as
an authoritative and fundamentally pragmatic pathway for anyone who
has to engage in the highly contentious worlds of planning and
policymaking.
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