Culture and international conflict resolution: A critical analysis of the work of John Burton (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) - Softcover

Vayrynen, Tarja

 
9780719081408: Culture and international conflict resolution: A critical analysis of the work of John Burton (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719081408 ISBN 13: 9780719081408
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This book re-examines conflict resolution, and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution, from a new perspective. A critical study of John Burton's work which outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict, it provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tarja Väyrynen is Research Director at Tampere Peace Research Institute in Finland

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This book re-examines conflict resolution – and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution – from a new perspective. The book is a critical study of John Burton’s work, and outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict. It provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle.

Väyrynen argues that culture has a constitutive role in international conflict and conflict resolution. Culture offers a grammar for acting in and interpreting the world, and provides understandings of conflict and its resolution. Theories which deny the importance of cultural failure to understand the ontological conditions of human ‘being’.

The book will be of interest to students of conflict and peace studies, both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as students of International Relations studying conflict resolution.

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This book re-examines conflict resolution and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution from a new perspective. The book is a critical study of John Burton s work, and outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict. It provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle.Väyrynen argues that culture has a constitutive role in international conflict and conflict resolution. Culture offers a grammar for acting in and interpreting the world, and provides understandings of conflict and its resolution. Theories which deny the importance of cultural failure to understand the ontological conditions of human being .The book will be of interest to students of conflict and peace studies, both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as students of International Relations studying conflict resolution.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719081408
ISBN 13 
9780719081408
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
174
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