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Mediation in the Asia-Pacific region : transforming conflicts and building peace / edited by Dale Bagshaw and Elisabeth Porter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 75.
- Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 75
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peace-building--Asia.
- Peace-building.
- Conflict management--Asia.
- Conflict management.
- Mediation--Asia.
- Mediation.
- Peace-building--Pacific Area.
- Conflict management--Pacific Area.
- Mediation--Pacific Area.
- Asia--Politics and government--1945-.
- Asia.
- Pacific Area--Politics and government.
- Pacific Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines mediation in connection with peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific region, providing practical examples which either highlight the weaknesses within certain mediation approaches or demonstrate best-practice.The authors explore the extent to which current ideas and practices of mediation in the Asia-Pacific region are dominated by Western understandings and critically challenge the appropriateness of such thinking. Featuring a range of case studies on Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, this book
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Abbreviations; Transforming conflicts and building peace through mediation; Part I Reconsidering mediation, peacebuilding and culture; 1 Challenging Western constructs of mediation; 2 Peacebuilding: Women peaceworkers; 3 Speaking across difference: Native title mediation and peacebuilding in Australia; Part II Building peace in the Asia-Pacific region: Pacific Islands; 4 Mediation of public policy disputes in the Fiji Islands; 5 'A few more arrows': Strengthening mediative capacity in Vanuatu
- 6 Creative peacebuilding: Experiences from BougainvillePart III Building peace in the Asia-Pacific region: Asia; 7 Mediation of marital disputes in Muslim families in Malaysia; 8 Transforming conflict and building peace in Cambodia; 9 Transforming conflict in international projects in Vietnam; 10 Listening with the ear, eye and heart: Conflict transformation in China; 11 Mediating contemporary, severe multicultural and religious conflicts in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-00998-4
- 1-282-25643-2
- 9786612256431
- 0-203-87669-5
- 9780203876695
- OCLC:
- 458299966
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