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Morton Deutsch is considered the founder of modern conflict
resolution theory and practice. He has written and researched areas
which pioneered current efforts in conflict resolution and
diplomacy. This volume showcases six of Deutsch's more notable and
influential papers, and include complementary chapters written by
other significant contributors working in these areas who can
situate the original papers in the context of the existing state of
scholarship.
Scholarship on the psychology of peace has been accumulating for
decades. The approach employed has been predominantly centered on
addressing and preventing conflict and violence and less on the
conditions associated with promoting peace. Concerns around nuclear
annihilation, enemy images, discrimination, denial of basic human
needs, terrorism and torture have been the focal points of most
research. The Psychological Components of a Sustainable Peace moves
beyond a prevention-orientation to the study of the conditions for
increasing the probabilities for sustainable, cooperative peace.
Such a view combines preventative scholarship with a
promotive-orientation to the study of peaceful situations and
societies. The contributors to this volume examine the components
of various psychological theories that contribute to the promotion
of a harmonious, sustainable peace. Underlying this orientation is
the belief that promoting the ideas and actions which can lead to a
sustainable, harmonious peace will not only contribute to the
prevention of war, but will also lead to more positive,
constructive relations among people and nations and to a more
sustainable planet. The Psychological Components of a Sustainable
Peace is valuable and stimulating reading for researchers in peace
psychology, political psychology, and conflict resolution as well
as others who are interested in developing a sustainable,
harmonious world.
This book teaches the importance of the practice of tithing. It's
about learning how to hear from God through the Holy Spirit, after
praying and spending time in His Word. It's about exercising
absolute faith in the LORD. It's a story about an ordinary woman'
determination to serve God and her family's complex social issues,
turned divine evident victories through loyalty, faith and
obedience to the only true and living God. In addition, it's an
easy read and it was written to compel readers to take God more
seriously by getting planted in a good Bible teaching church. Then
spend more personal time with Him and getting to know His Son,
Jesus Christ by praying and studying His Word daily for
instructions, revelation knowledge and spiritual maturity.
Bill Coleman's story is one that younger generations should mark
and inwardly digest, lest they forget the pioneers who helped to
make a better America possible."" From the Foreword by Stephen G.
Breyer. William Coleman has spent a lifetime opening doors and
breaking down barriers. He has been an eyewitness to history;
moreover, he has made history. This is his inspiring story, in his
own words. Americans of color faced daunting barriers in the 1940s.
Despite graduating first in his class at Harvard Law and clerking
for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Coleman was shut out
of major East Coast law firms. But as the Philadelphia native
writes, ""The times, they were a'changing."" He not only benefited
from that change he helped propel it, by way of dogged
determination, undeniable intellect, and stellar accomplishment.
Coleman's legal work with Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund helped jumpstart the civil rights
movement in the 1950s. He was the first American of color to clerk
for the Supreme Court, and later served as senior counsel to the
Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy. In 1975 he was appointed secretary of
transportation by President Gerald Ford the first American of color
to serve in a Republican cabinet and in 1995 he received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton. At his core, Bill
Coleman is a lawyer. He strives to be a ""counsel for the
situation"" an advocate able to take on major matters in a variety
of legal disciplines while upholding the highest traditions of
justice and the public interest. He is fiercely proud of the legal
profession's role in a democratic society and free economy, and he
is grateful for the opportunities that profession has afforded him
in the court room, the board room, and the corridors of power. It
is through this prism that he relates his own story his life and
the law. The results speak for themselves, and in this immensely
entertaining chronicle, the Counsel for the Situation speaks for
himself.
The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm.
Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle.
Political polarization is personal, too-and it is making us
miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and
hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine
that they hold much more extreme views than they actually do. We
have cordoned ourselves off: we prefer to date and marry those with
similar opinions and are less willing to spend time with people on
the other side. How can we loosen the grip of this toxic
polarization and start working on our most pressing problems? The
Way Out offers an escape from this morass. The social psychologist
Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity
science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable
political differences. Deploying the concept of attractors in
dynamical systems, he explains why we are stuck in this rut as well
as the unexpected ways that deeply rooted oppositions can and do
change. Coleman meticulously details principles and practices for
navigating and healing the difficult divides in our homes,
workplaces, and communities, blending compelling personal accounts
from his years of working on entrenched conflicts with lessons from
leading-edge research. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to
breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better
our lives, relationships, and country.
Conflict is inherent in virtually every aspect of human relations,
from sport to parliamentary democracy, from fashion in the arts to
paradigmatic challenges in the sciences, and from economic activity
to intimate relationships. Yet, it can become among the most
serious social problems humans face when it loses its constructive
features and becomes protracted over time with no obvious means of
resolution. This book addresses the subject of intractable social
conflict from a new vantage point. Here, these types of conflict
represent self-organizing phenomena, emerging quite naturally from
the ongoing dynamics in human interaction at any scale-from the
interpersonal to the international. Using the universal language
and computational framework of nonlinear dynamical systems theory
in combination with recent insights from social psychology,
intractable conflict is understood as a system locked in special
attractor states that constrain the thoughts and actions of the
parties to the conflict. The emergence and maintenance of
attractors for conflict can be described by means of formal models
that incorporate the results of computer simulations, experiments,
field research, and archival analyses. Multi-disciplinary research
reflecting these approaches provides encouraging support for the
dynamical systems perspective. Importantly, this text presents new
views on conflict resolution. In contrast to traditional approaches
that tend to focus on basic, short-lived cause-effect relations,
the dynamical perspective emphasizes the temporal patterns and
potential for emergence in destructive relations. Attractor
deconstruction entails restoring complexity to a conflict scenario
by isolating elements or changing the feedback loops among them.
The creation of a latent attractor trades on the tendency toward
multi-stability in dynamical systems and entails the consolidation
of incongruent (positive) elements into a coherent structure. In
the bifurcation scenario, factors are identified that can change
the number and types of attractors in a conflict scenario. The
implementation of these strategies may hold the key to unlocking
intractable conflict, creating the potential for constructive
social relations.
State of the art risk management techniques and practices
supplemented with interactive analytics All too often risk
management books focus on risk measurement details without taking a
broader view. Quantitative Risk Management delivers a synthesis of
common sense management together with the cutting-edge tools of
modern theory. This book presents a road map for tactical and
strategic decision making designed to control risk and capitalize
on opportunities. Most provocatively it challenges the conventional
wisdom that "risk management" is or ever should be delegated to a
separate department. Good managers have always known that managing
risk is central to a financial firm and must be the responsibility
of anyone who contributes to the profit of the firm. A guide to
risk management for financial firms and managers in the post-crisis
world, Quantitative Risk Management updates the techniques and
tools used to measure and monitor risk. These are often
mathematical and specialized, but the ideas are simple. The book
starts with how we think about risk and uncertainty, then turns to
a practical explanation of how risk is measured in today's complex
financial markets. * Covers everything from risk measures,
probability, and regulatory issues to portfolio risk analytics and
reporting * Includes interactive graphs and computer code for
portfolio risk and analytics * Explains why tactical and strategic
decisions must be made at every level of the firm and portfolio
Providing the models, tools, and techniques firms need to build the
best risk management practices, Quantitative Risk Management is an
essential volume from an experienced manager and quantitative
analyst.
An award-winning environmental historian explores American history
through wrenching, tragic, and sometimes humorous stories of
getting lost "Fascinating. . . . Underlying . . . is a deep belief
in the importance of collaboration and cooperation between humans
and their environments, as well as between humans and other
humans."-Robert Macfarlane, New York Review of Books The human
species has a propensity for getting lost. The American people,
inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant
roots and to break free, are no exception. In this engaging book,
environmental historian Jon Coleman bypasses the trailblazers so
often described in American history to follow instead the strays
and drifters who went missing. From Hernando de Soto's failed quest
for riches in the American southeast to the recent trend of getting
lost as a therapeutic escape from modernity, this book details a
unique history of location and movement as well as the
confrontations that occur when our physical and mental conceptions
of space become disjointed. Whether we get lost in the woods, the
plains, or the digital grid, Coleman argues that getting lost
allows us to see wilderness anew and connect with generations
across five centuries to discover a surprising and edgy American
identity.
Commemorating Morton Deutsch's 95th birthday, this book presents
ten major texts by this highly respected social psychologist on war
and peace. This second volume presents Deutsch in his role as a
leading social science activist on issues of war and peace -
writing papers, making speeches and participating in
demonstrations. After serving in the U.S. Air Force during World
War II and being awarded two Distinguished Flying Cross medals, as
a psychologist he was determined to work for a more peaceful world.
Influenced by Kurt Lewin, who believed that nothing was as
practical as a good theory, Deutsch pursued theoretical work on
such issues as cooperation-competition, conflict resolution and
social justice with regard to issues of war and peace. As President
of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence, the
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the
International Society of Political Psychology, he helped to foster
social science efforts to make for a more peaceful world.
The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm.
Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle.
Political polarization is personal, too-and it is making us
miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and
hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine
that they hold much more extreme views than they actually do. We
have cordoned ourselves off: we prefer to date and marry those with
similar opinions and are less willing to spend time with people on
the other side. How can we loosen the grip of this toxic
polarization and start working on our most pressing problems? The
Way Out offers an escape from this morass. The social psychologist
Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity
science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable
political differences. Deploying the concept of attractors in
dynamical systems, he explains why we are stuck in this rut as well
as the unexpected ways that deeply rooted oppositions can and do
change. Coleman meticulously details principles and practices for
navigating and healing the difficult divides in our homes,
workplaces, and communities, blending compelling personal accounts
from his years of working on entrenched conflicts with lessons from
leading-edge research. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to
breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better
our lives, relationships, and country.
Commemorating Morton Deutsch's 95th birthday, this book presents
ten major texts by this highly respected social psychologist on war
and peace. This first volume presents Deutsch in his role as a
leading social science activist on issues of war and peace -
writing papers, making speeches and participating in
demonstrations. After serving in the U.S. Air Force during World
War II and being awarded two Distinguished Flying Cross medals, as
a psychologist he was determined to work for a more peaceful world.
Influenced by Kurt Lewin, who believed that nothing was as
practical as a good theory, Deutsch pursued theoretical work on
such issues as cooperation-competition, conflict resolution and
social justice with regard to issues of war and peace. As President
of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence, the
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the
International Society of Political Psychology, he helped to foster
social science efforts to make for a more peaceful world.
'Coleman and Ferguson have done something remarkable: they've
written an evidence-based book on the complex topic of conflict and
made it easy to read, easy to understand, and, best of all, easy to
use. A genuine winner' Robert B. Cialdini, author of Influence: The
Psychology of Persuasion A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO NAVIGATING WORKPLACE
CONFLICTS Work conflict is risky. It can go bad and poison employee
health, work relationships and organizational climates, or it can
go well and help to energize problem solving, innovation and
bottom-line effectiveness. Managing conflicts up and down the chain
of command at work can be particularly treacherous, as power
differences complicate conflicts and constrain response options.
Organizations are rife with stories of executives and managers who
abuse their power, employees who overstep their authority, and the
resulting conflicts that get stuck in downward spirals. When people
find themselves in conflict, they immediately become aware of the
balance of power in the situation or relationship: 'Hey, you work
for me, so back off!', or 'Wow, he is much bigger and drunker than
I thought he was before I told him to shut up', so understanding
how conflict and power affect each other is vital to effective
conflict management. In Making Conflict Work, Peter Coleman and
Robert Ferguson, leading experts in the field of conflict
resolution, address the key role of power in workplace tension.
Coleman and Ferguson explain how power dynamics function and
provide step-by-step guidance to determining your standing in a
conflict and identifying and applying the strategies that will lead
to the best resolution. Drawing on the authors' years of research
and consulting experience, Making Conflict Work offers seven new
strategies and dozens of tactics for negotiating disputes at all
levels of an organization. This powerful approach can turn
workplace tensions into catalysts for creativity, innovation, and
meaningful change.
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