Peacemaking: A Systems Approach to Conflict Management

Kahn has produced a worthwhile practical text that is rich in insight, creativity, and hope, and that provides us with ways to understand and enhance our peacemaking efforts both individually and collectively. * Vision Action * ...a sensitive and humanistic book...undeniably...hopeful...altogether optimistic....the volume will be...a success. * Contemporary Psychology * ...a sensitive and humanistic book...undeniably...hopeful...altogether optimistic....the volume will be...a success. * Contemporary Psychology * Kahn has produced a worthwhile practical text that is rich in insight, creativity, and hope, and that provides us with ways to understand and enhance our peacemaking efforts both individually and collectively. * Vision Action *

Peacemaking is the activity which transforms the energy of conflict into the energy of cooperative achievement. A peacemaker is a third party consultant who helps people in conflict discover shared solutions where all sides feel like a winner. Peacemaking presents technologies, psychology, theories and application of conflict management activities. The key elements are: face-to-face dialogue, the analysis of conflict and shared solutions, the use of third party facilitators, feedback about group dynamics, clear conference design and systems thinking.