Resolving Structural Conflicts

How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed

Richard E. Rubenstein (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-95632-2 (ISBN)

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This book analyses structural or system-generated conflicts and poses the fundamental question: 'If there are systems generating this conflict, how can they be changed?' Showing how systems established to maintain a peaceful social order sometimes end by generating serious violence, the author discusses how to envision and implement new methods of transforming violence-prone systems.

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 international relations in general.

Richard E. Rubenstein is University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, and the author of eight books, including most recently Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War (2010).

Introduction

1. Partisan moralism and the need for structual thought

2. How do social systems generate violence?

3. Violent systems and their transformation

4. Class conflict and the problem of crime

5. Cultural conflict and the problem of religious violence

6. Structural conflict resolution: Towards a new politics

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-138-95632-5 / 1138956325
ISBN-13	978-1-138-95632-2 / 9781138956322
Zustand	Neuware