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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Wicked Problems - The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, and Ernesto Verdeja
I: VIOLENCE
1. The Ritual of Black Armed Resistance: Police Abolition through the Eyes of the Black Radical Tradition
Tony Gaskew
2. Building a Movement to End Poverty through Nonviolent Resistance
Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back
3. Is Violence the Answer? A Pragmatic Approach
Kirssa Cline Ryckman
4. How Is It to Be Done? Dilemmas of Prefigurative and Harm - Reduction Approaches to Social Movement Work
Ashley J. Bohrer
II: LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONS
5. The Paradox of Survivor Leadership
Minh Dang
6. Allies Out Front: Dilemmas of Leadership
Daniel J. Myers
7. Organizing Dilemmas across U.S.- Based Social Justice Movement Spaces
alicia sanchez gill
8. The Ones Who Walk Away to Stay and Fight
Philip Gamaghelyan
9. From Righteous to Responsive: Rethinking the Role of Moral Values of Peacebuilding
Reina C. Neufeldt
III: SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS
10. Dilemmas in Action Where Rule of Law Conflicts with Justice
Deena R. Hurwitz
11. Establishing an Ethics of Post-Sanctions Peacebuilding
George A. Lopez and Beatrix Geaghan-Breiner
12. Threading the Needle: Ethical Dilemmas in Preventing Mass Atrocities
Ernesto Verdeja
13. Whither the Villains? The Ethical Dilemma in Armed Conflict
Laurie Nathan
14. "A Different Kind of Weapon": Ethical Dilemmas and Nonviolent Civilian Protection
Felicity Gray
15. The Ethics of Transitional Justice
Tim Murithi
16. Why the Peacebuilding Field Needs Clear and Accessible Standards of Research Ethics
Elizabeth Hume and Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik
17. Consent, Inclusivity, and Local Voices: Ethical Dilemmas of Teaching Peace in Conflict Zones
Agnieszka Paczynska and Susan F. Hirsch
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