Dealing with Differences

Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-538589-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is a perennial challenge for activists, politicians, planners, and policymakers. John Forester is one of America's eminent scholars of progressive planning and dispute resolution in the policy arena, and in Dealing with Differences he focuses on a series of 'hard cases'--conflicts that appeared to be insoluble yet which were resolved in the end. Forester ranges across the country--from Hawaii to Maryland to Washington State--and across issues--the environment, ethnic conflict, and HIV. Throughout, he focuses on how innovative mediators settled seemingly intractable disputes. Between pessimism masquerading as 'realism' and the unrealistic idealism that 'we can all get along,' Forester identifies the middle terrain where disputes do actually get resolved in ways that offer something for all sides. Dealing with Differences serves as an authoritative and fundamentally pragmatic pathway for anyone who has to engage in the highly contentious worlds of planning and policymaking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forester, John

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction: Discovery, Creativity and Change in the Face of Conflict

- Part One: When Parties Conflict, Expect That More's Possible Than Anyone Says

- 1: Beyond Promises: Making Public Participation and Democratic Deliberation Work

- 2: Cultivating Surprise and the Art of the Possible: Dramas of Mediating Differences

- Part Two: Respecting Value Differences and Acting Practically Together Too

- 3: Exploring Values-based Disputes

- 4: Dealing with Deep Value Differences in Participatory Processes

- Part Three: From Venting and Posturing to Learning and Proposing

- 5: In the Face of Deep Value Differenes: Negotiating HIV/AIDS Priority-Setting

- 6: Planning, Mediation, Participation and Posturing: What's a Facilitative Leader Do?

- Part Four: From Arguing to Inventing, From Presuming to Enabling Action

- 7: Making Public Participation in Governance Work: Distinguishing and Integrating Dialogue, Debate, and Negotiation

- 8: Envisioning Possibilities: How Humor and Irony Enact Recognition, Build Power

- 9: Conclusion: Transforming Participatory Processes: Integrating and Transcending Dialogue, Debate, and Negotiation

- Appendices

- Endnotes

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

John Forester is Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. A community mediator for 20 years, he has also served as Department Chair and Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell. His earlier books include The Deliberative Practitioner and Planning in the Face of Power. Using oral histories revealing the micro-politics of planning and mediation, he has lectured recently in Seattle, Chapel Hill, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Helsinki, Palermo, Johannesburg, Sheffield, Milan and Amsterdam.