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

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 esse...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Writing Past Colonialism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 2 illus.
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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