Full Description
This short book unites seven case studies from Africa, Europe, and the Americas to offer new solution-oriented ways of thinking about seemingly insurmountable social problems. These solution-oriented ways of thinking, as detailed in each of the seven case study chapters, emphasize how understanding the micro-dynamics of conflicts (and their rootedness in local sociocultural and associated institutional norms) is essential to developing ethical and pro-social responses to global social problems.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Unveiling the Ties: Indigenous Struggles and Conservation Efforts in Costa Rica.- Chapter 3. How to Conceptualize and Compare Conflict Strategies. A View from the Past.- Chapter 4.A Family Group Intervention Program for Truant Students: Changes in Family Functioning, Parent-Child Communication, and Child Well-Being by Race Across a Multi-Year Sample.- Chapter 5. Sound Systems, the Amelioration of Gang Conflict, and the Practice of Ethical Freedom in Barranquilla, Colombia, 1981-1997.- Chapter 6. Permissive Natality: How Correctional Educators and Administrators Create Positive Prison Social Climate.- Chapter 7. The Shattered Bell Jar: Examining the Program Effectiveness for Gender Based Violence in Africa.- Chapter 8. The Symbolic Lives of Guns.
