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Transforming violent conflict

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This book investigates intractable conflicts and their main verbal manifestation - radical disagreement - and explores what can be done when conflict resolution fails.The book identifies agonistic dialogue - dialogue between enemies - as the key to linguistic intractability. It suggests how agonistic dialogue can best be studied, explored, understood and managed even in the most severe political conflicts when negotiation, mediation, problem solving, dialogue for mutual understanding, and discourse ethics are unsuccessful. This approach of viewing radical disagreement as the c

Title Transforming violent conflict : radical disagreement, dialogue and survival / Oliver Ramsbotham.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 2010
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-266) and index.
English
Content Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures and boxes
Preface
Prologue: Having the first word
Part I Radical disagreement and intractable conflict
1 Radical disagreement and discourse analysis
2 Radical disagreement and conflict analysis
3 Radical disagreement and conflict resolution
Part II Radical disagreement and the transformation of violent conflict
4 Methodology: Studying agonistic dialogue
5 Phenomenology: Exploring agonistic dialogue
6 Epistemology: Understanding agonistic dialogue
7 Praxis: Managing agonistic dialogue
8 Re-entry: Feeding back into conflict settlement and conflict transformationPart III Radical disagreement and the future: Theoretical and practical implications
9 Radical disagreement and human difference
10 Radical disagreement and human survival
Epilogue: Having the last word
Glossary
References
Index
Series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Extent 1 online resource (286 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997012410334405171
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