One Paradigm, Many Worlds

Conflict Resolution across the Disciplines
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84718-522-8
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 185 Seiten

One Paradigm, Many Worlds: Conflict Resolution across the Disciplines surveys how the paradigm of collaborative conflict resolution shapes a variety of disciplines. Conflict resolution examines the theory, research, strategies and spirit that accompany subscription to this “win-win” approach to conflict. In the past few decades, such a collaborative approach has emerged to challenge existing “win-lose” paradigms to approaching conflict that are predicated on some form of violence and unacknowledged/ unchanging power differentials. By challenging these existing paradigms, One Paradigm, Many Worlds documents and instructs on the merits of the collaborative approach to conflict resolution. It promises a broad and contemporary examination of how this paradigm both influences and holds the potential to influence a number of different professional and academic disciplines.
The text is organized in four sections. They focus on the application of conflict resolution in the human services, elementary/secondary education, higher education, and a range of other disciplines (philosophy, communication, international relations). With such a breadth contained in the text, One Paradigm, Many Worlds’ unifying core is the centrality of conflict resolution as a paradigm supportive of cooperation, positive communication and relationship to self, to others, to organizations and institutions, and to society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosenwald, Mitchell

Über Autor(innen)

Rosenwald, Mitchell
Dr. Mitch Rosenwald is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Barry University. He has published a number of articles on foster care, group work, and political ideology in social work, and is the co-author of the forthcoming Advocating for Children in Foster Care from Columbia University Press.