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Transforming Violent Conflict: Radical Disagreement, Dialogue and Survival book cover

1st Edition

Transforming Violent Conflict Radical Disagreement, Dialogue and Survival

By Oliver Ramsbotham Copyright 2010
288 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Prologue: Having the First Word  Part 1: Radical Disagreement and Conflict Intractability  1. Radical Disagreement and Discourse Analysis  2. Radical Disagreement and Conflict Analysis  3. Radical Disagreement and Conflict Resolution  Part 2: Taking Radical Disagreement Seriously  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 Transformation  Part 3: Radical Disagreement and the Future  9. Radical Disagreement and Human Difference  10. Radical Disagreement and Human Survival.  Epilogue: Having the Last Word

Biography

Oliver Ramsbotham is Emeritus Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, UK, Chair of the Oxford Research Group, President of the Conflict Research Society and co-author of Conflict Resolution in Contemporary Conflict.

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