Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution : Tools for Powerful Groups and Communities

By E. Franklin Dukes, John B. Stephens, Marina A. Piscolish

A book for anyone and everyone who works in and with groups, managers, committee chairs, team leaders, nonprofit directors, consultants, mediators, facilitators, teachers, and trainers. This book presents an original approach to group problem solving and conflict transformation. It shows how the development and maintenance of something more productive and inspiring than typical ground rules can go a long way toward creating authentic community and sustainable agreements in group settings. The authors draw from their facilitation, mediation, and training experiences in helping groups move towards a higher ground in the areas of education reform, environmental issues, public health, family tensions, church denomination policy, and other areas. Includes an index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787950580
• ISBN13: 9780787950583
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Unc School of Government
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution

This is a well written, concise and practical book that can serve as a valuable resource for members of any group, including the family unit. It inspired me and gives me hope that there is a way for people to learn how to come together in groups and solve our problems in a principled, creative process that works for the higher good of all concerned.

Excellent guidance for anyone invloved with large groups

Frank Dukes, Marina Piscolish, and John Stephens have successfully collaborated on a book that takes a frank and honest look at what facilitators do in groups and how to do it better. The book is remarkably readable and has instant applicability not only to those of us in the business of mediation; the city administrator and elected official will also find the book extremely useful. I recommend it to my colleagues in the planning profession as a refreshing and rewarding approach to handling large group processes.