"This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman. Interactive problem solving, as developed by Kelman and others, sought to increase understanding about the microprocesses of international relations. Kelman early on emphasised the centrality of an interactive approach for constructing new identities, new narratives, and new ways forward. Transforming conflict systems requires strategic attention to the interactions between agents of change that provide stability or induce shift. This volume on interactive conflict approaches includes both critical reflections and new ideas from scholar-practitioners who have developed, revised, and expanded these approaches. Contributors take up important issues, from the shape and likelihood of solutions in intractable conflicts, to how individuals can exist in realities with seemingly irresolvable inner and outer conflicts. The volume represents the best of current thinking about how the mechanisms, theoretical framework, and application of interactive problem solving should be moved into the twenty-first century context of increasing complexity, increasing uncertainty, and increasing polarisation. This book will be of interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution and International Relations"--
This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman.
Interactive problem solving, as developed by Kelman and others, sought to increase understanding about the microprocesses of international relations. Kelman early on emphasised the centrality of an interactive approach for constructing new identities, new narratives, and new ways forward. Transforming conflict systems requires strategic attention to the interactions between agents of change that provide stability or induce shift. This volume on interactive conflict approaches includes both critical reflections and new ideas from scholar-practitioners who have developed, revised, and expanded these approaches. Contributors take up important issues, from the shape and likelihood of solutions in intractable conflicts to how individuals can exist in realities with seemingly irresolvable inner and outer conflicts. The volume represents the best of current thinking about how the mechanisms, theoretical framework, and application of interactive problem solving should be moved into the twenty-first century context of increasing complexity, increasing uncertainty, and increasing polarisation.
This book will be of interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, and international relations.
This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman.
Foreword Preface
1. Introduction Part I: Complex Intractable Conflict,
Theoretical Lenses, and the Vision of Herbert Kelman
2. Interactive Conflict
Transformation through a Complexity Lens: Local Actors, Interaction, and the
Dynamics of Change
3. Kelmans Theoretical Brilliance: Complete Social
Psychologist and Consummate Conflict Resolution ScholarPractitioner
4.
Conceptualizing Change in the World System: Towards a More Complex and
Comprehensive Understanding of Peace and Conflict Research
5. Critical
Realism and Interactive Conflict Transformation: Connecting Integrative
Metatheory, Multidimensional Social Theory, and Transformative Practice Part
II: Expanding Our Scope
6. Interactive Conflict Engagement 2.0: From Solving
Problems to Enabling Systems to Sustain Peace
7. Individual Agency in
Interactive Peacemaking: Insights from GeorgianSouth Ossetian Experience
8.
Building a Human Infrastructure Across Conflict Lines for Reconciliation and
Coexistence: The Case of Cyprus
9. Broadening the Use of Interactive Problem
Solving
10. Addressing Persistent Fault Lines in MultiEthnic States: Using
Inter and Intragroup Dialogues on Widening Identities and Narratives,
Commemoration and Minority Rights Part III: Evolving Our Focus
11. Exploring
Reconciliations Identity Paradoxes
12. Moving Beyond Dichotomies of
Narratives and Identity: The Transformative Process of Dialogue
13.
Acknowledging, Understanding, and Adapting to the Complexity of Radical
Disagreement
14. Engaging in the Face of NonNegotiability: From Resolution
to Transformation
15. Learning to Accommodate Others Worldviews
16. Applying
a Complex Systems Lens to Interactive Conflict Resolution: Themes and Lessons
Tamra Pearson dEstrée is Professor of Conflict Resolution in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA. She is co-author, with Bonnie G. Colby, of Braving the Currents: Evaluating Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West (2004), a co-editor, with Ruth Parsons, of Cultural Encounters and Emergent Practices in Conflict Resolution Capacity-Building (2018), and the editor of New Directions in Peacebuilding Evaluation (2019).
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