Mediating Across Difference : : Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution / / ed. by Morgan J. Brigg, Roland Bleiker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Bleiker, Roland,; Boege, Volker,; Brigg, Morgan,; Chan, Stephen,; Garasu, Lorraine,; Graham, Mary,; Jalong, Frans de,; Jones, Carwyn,; Kere, Joy,; McDougall, Debra,; Namatame, Norifumi,; Pan, Chengxin,; Richmond, Oliver P.,; Rose, Deborah Bird,; Sugiono, Muhadi,; Väyrynen, Tarja,; Walker, Polly O.,; Wasilewski, Jacqueline,; Young-ju, Hoang,
• HerausgeberIn: Bleiker, Roland,; Brigg, Morgan J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Writing Past Colonialism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 2 illus.

Mediating Across Difference is based on a fundamental premise: to deal adequately with conflict-and particularly with conflict stemming from cultural and other differences-requires genuine openness to different cultural practices and dialogue between different ways of knowing and being. Equally essential is a shift away from understanding cultural difference as an inevitable source of conflict, and the development of a more critical attitude toward previously under-examined Western assumptions about conflict and its resolution.To address the ensuing challenges, this book introduces and explores some of the rich insights into conflict resolution emanating from Asia and Oceania. Although often overlooked, these local traditions offer a range of useful ways of thinking about and dealing with difference and conflict in a globalizing world. To bring these traditions into exchange with mainstream Western conflict resolution, the editors present the results of collaborative work between experienced scholars and culturally knowledgeable practitioners from numerous parts of Asia and Oceania. The result is a series of interventions that challenge conventional Western notions of conflict resolution and provide academics, policy makers, diplomats, mediators, and local conflict workers with new possibilities to approach, prevent, and resolve conflict.Contributors: Roland Bleiker; Volker Boege; Morgan Brigg; Stephen Chan; Frans de Jalong, Sr.; Lorraine Garasu; Mary Graham; Hoang Young-ju; Carwyn Jones; Joy Kere; Debra McDougall; Norifumi Namatame; Chengxin Pan; Oliver Richmond; Deborah Bird Rose; Muhadi Sugiono; Tarja Väyrynen; Polly O. Walker; Jacqueline Wasilewski.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Values and Limits of Western Approaches to Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 1. Postcolonial Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 2. Silence in Western Models of Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 3. Local Conflict Resolution in the Shadows of Liberal International Peacebuilding -- II. Australian Aboriginal and Māori Approaches to Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 4. Conflict Murri Way: Managing through Place and Relatedness -- Chapter 5. Conflict Resolution and Decolonisation: Aboriginal Australian Case Studies in 'Enlarged Thinking' -- Chapter 6. Māori Dispute Resolution: Traditional Conceptual Regulators and Contemporary Processes -- III. Melanesian Approaches to Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 7. Christianity, Custom, and Law: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Postconflict Solomon Islands -- Chapter 8. Bougainville: A Source of Inspiration for Conflict Resolution -- IV. East Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 9. Crossing Borders: Indonesian Experience with Local Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 10. Mediating Difference in Uchi Space: Conflict Management Lessons from Japan -- Chapter 11. Shu and the Chinese Quest for Harmony: A Confucian Approach to Mediating across Difference -- Chapter 12. Korean Sources of Conflict Resolution: An Inquiry into the Concept of Han -- Chapter 13. Conclusion: Mediating the Mediation with Difference -- Contributors -- Index