Culture and Conflict Resolution

by Kevin Avruch

Book Overview

After years of relative neglect, culture is finally receiving due recognition as a key factor in the evolution and resolution of conflicts. Unfortunately, however, when theorists and practitioners of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878379828
• ISBN13: 9781878379825
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Handy Reference for the International Worker

Professor Kevin Avruch has written a thought provoking and very useful book on the relationship between conflict resolution and culture. The author outlines how different cultures act and think when it comes to conflict and conflict resolution. For those of us who work in an International organisation, this book is extremely handy, especially for managers. By understanding how conflicts arise and the various approaches differing cultures use to resolve conflict; the reader appreciates the variety in the world's peoples. He gives an insight into cultural roles in resolution, cultural aspects in negotiation and the issue of power in cultural aspects to conflict resolution. The book is especially useful for the person living and working abroad and who travels. Reading the book gives important insight into how various cultures see conflict and their various approaches to conflict resolution. I would commend the book to anyone who works in a multi-cultural work environment.Well done, Professor Avruch!

Asking important questions...

Professor Avruch openly acknowledges what the conflict resolution field, among many other social science fields, overlooked for many years: culture. He offers to the average reader an opportunity to consider basic principles in how culture dictates how we all interact. Culture is what people experience on a daily basis and most definitely take for granted. Armed with a new and encompassing understanding, professionals and those who are simply curious may then consider their interactions and situations from different points of views, and hopefully be willing to exchange ideas and experiences more freely and purposefully.