TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gamaghelyan,Philip
AU  - Umland,Andreas
AU  - Allen,Susan
TI  - Conflict Resolution Beyond the International Relations Paradigm: Evolving Design as Transformative Practice in Nagorno-Karabakh and Syria
T2  - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
SN  - 9783838270579
AV  - JZ6368 .G363 2017 
U1  - 327.17 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Ibidem Verlag
KW  - Conflict management-International cooperation
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Questions I am aiming to address -- The organization of the text -- Part I -- Chapter 1 Critical review of conflict resolution theories -- Binary frames in conflict resolution -- Realist theories of international relations -- Liberal theories of international relations -- In the shadow of Track 1: interactive problem solving -- Alternative to binary frames in conflict resolution -- Multitrack models of conflict resolution -- Network theory -- The third side -- Constructivist trends in conflict analysis -- Reflective and elicitive practice -- Theories of ethnicity and nationalism -- Critical theory -- Structuration theory: segue into participatory research design -- Chapter 2 Methodology -- Participatory action research -- Case selection -- Auto-ethnography -- First-person action research and collective auto-ethnography -- Second-person action research -- Ethical considerations and limitations -- Chapter 3 Auto-ethnographic sketch -- My background, the resulting perspective and subjectivity, and their role in this research -- Part II -- Chapter 4 On ethical and methodological challenges of leading a Syrian dialogue program in the middle of a civil war: from exclusion to inclusion -- The program design and implementation -- Program design vs. program reality -- Intermission -- Back to dialogue -- Methodological agony -- Reframing -- Getting real -- Closure -- Implications of the Syrian dialogue for this research: toward inclusive frames that do not privilege the violent extremes -- Chapter 5 On methodological challenges of leading an analytic initiative in the context of the long-lasting Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: from inclusion to exclusion -- The Nagorno-Karabakh Analytic Initiative -- The first meeting -- The first full symposium; The second full symposium -- Working group -- Implications of the Nagorno-Karabakh Analytic Initiative for recognizing power dynamics and resulting exclusion, and marginalization -- Part II postscript -- Part III -- Chapter 6 Influence of macro-frames on conflict resolution practice. Addressing exclusion perpetuated by binary conflict discourses of international relations -- In the shadow of the international relations discourse -- Practical implications of naming initiatives "Track 2": impact on selection -- Practical implications of naming initiatives "Track 2": impact on dialogue -- Leaving the shadow: addressing patterns of marginalization influenced by the international relations discourse -- Conceptual alternatives -- Evolving Designs: rethinking the language of mediation -- Evolving Designs: rethinking dialogue and PSW -- Evolving Designs in practice: transforming the Analytic Initiative -- Chapter 6 postscript: gender and other binaries that affect conflict resolution practice -- Chapter conclusions -- Chapter 7 Marginalization specific to conflict resolution initiatives. Addressing the formation of dominant factions -- Formation of a single dominant faction within initiatives -- Cultural intelligibility to the organizers -- Reliance on a dominant discourse external to the initiative -- Competition for domination and shifting marginalization -- Recognizing and addressing domination and resulting marginalization -- Chapter conclusions -- Chapter 8 Addressing marginalization patterns within the conflict resolution community -- Competition among organizations -- Walking the talk: the case for the organizations preaching cooperation to lead by example -- Power struggles within teams -- Addressing marginalization within teams -- Chapter conclusions -- Chapter 9 Lessons learned -- Reflection: the learning and the key findings; Action: Evolving Designs in Imagine Center's recent initiatives -- Questions for further research -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index
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