Resolving structural conflicts : how violent systems can be transformed / Richard E. Rubenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubenstein, Richard E., author.

Series:

Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conflict management--Social aspects.

Conflict management.

Social conflict.

Culture conflict.

Social change.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 159 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

This book analyses how certain types of social systems generate violent conflict and discusses how these systems can be transformed in order to create the conditions for positive peace. Resolving Structural Conflicts addresses a key issue in the field of conflict studies: what to do about violent conflicts that are not the results of misunderstanding, prejudice, or malice, but the products of a social system that generates violent conflict as part of its normal operations. This question poses enormous challenges to those interested in conflict resolution, since the solution to this problem involves restructuring social, political, and cultural systems rather than just calling in a mediator to help people arrive at an agreement. This study breaks new ground in showing how local conflicts involving crime, police, and prisons; transnational conflicts involving religious terrorism by groups like ISIS; and international conflicts involving great power clashes are all produced in large part by elite-driven, exploitative or oppressive social structures. It also presents new ideas about the implications of this 'structural turn' for the practice of conflict resolution, emphasizing the need for conflict resolvers to embrace a new politics and to broaden their methods far beyond traditional forms of facilitation. Written by a leading scholar, this book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies, war and conflict studies, sociology, political science and IR in general. Book jacket.

Contents:

Partisan moralism and the need for structural thought

How do social systems generate violence?

Violent systems and their transformation

Class conflict and the problem of crime

Cultural conflict and the problem of religious violence

Structural conflict resolution : toward a new politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138956322

1138956325

9781138956339

1138956333

OCLC:

962750072