Full Description
This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman.
Interactive problem solving, as developed by Kelman and others, sought to increase understanding about the microprocesses of international relations. Kelman early on emphasised the centrality of an interactive approach for constructing new identities, new narratives, and new ways forward. Transforming conflict systems requires strategic attention to the interactions between agents of change that provide stability or induce shift. This volume on interactive conflict approaches includes both critical reflections and new ideas from scholar-practitioners who have developed, revised, and expanded these approaches. Contributors take up important issues, from the shape and likelihood of solutions in intractable conflicts to how individuals can exist in realities with seemingly irresolvable inner and outer conflicts. The volume represents the best of current thinking about how the mechanisms, theoretical framework, and application of interactive problem solving should be moved into the twenty-first century context of increasing complexity, increasing uncertainty, and increasing polarisation.
This book will be of interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, and international relations.
Contents
Foreword Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Complex Intractable Conflict, Theoretical Lenses, and the Vision of Herbert Kelman 2. Interactive Conflict Transformation through a Complexity Lens: Local Actors, Interaction, and the Dynamics of Change 3. Kelman's Theoretical Brilliance: Complete Social Psychologist and Consummate Conflict Resolution Scholar-Practitioner 4. 'Conceptualizing Change in the World System': Towards a More Complex and Comprehensive Understanding of Peace and Conflict Research 5. Critical Realism and Interactive Conflict Transformation: Connecting Integrative Metatheory, Multi-dimensional Social Theory, and Transformative Practice Part II: Expanding Our Scope 6. Interactive Conflict Engagement 2.0: From Solving Problems to Enabling Systems to Sustain Peace 7. Individual Agency in Interactive Peacemaking: Insights from Georgian-South Ossetian Experience 8. Building a Human Infrastructure Across Conflict Lines for Reconciliation and Coexistence: The Case of Cyprus 9. Broadening the Use of Interactive Problem Solving 10. Addressing Persistent Fault Lines in Multi-Ethnic States: Using Inter- and Intra-group Dialogues on Widening Identities and Narratives, Commemoration and Minority Rights Part III: Evolving Our Focus 11. Exploring Reconciliation's Identity Paradoxes 12. Moving Beyond Dichotomies of Narratives and Identity: The Transformative Process of Dialogue 13. Acknowledging, Understanding, and Adapting to the Complexity of Radical Disagreement 14. Engaging in the Face of Non-Negotiability: From Resolution to Transformation 15. Learning to Accommodate Others' Worldviews 16. Applying a Complex Systems Lens to Interactive Conflict Resolution: Themes and Lessons
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