This book shows that the conflict resolution field often denies difference even as it attempts to implement a progressive and responsive politics. Innovative theoretical analysis suggests ways of responding anew across difference and beyond dominant ways of thinking about political community and conflict.
Author(s): Morgan Brigg
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 240
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
The conflict resolution field......Page 17
The difference challenge......Page 20
Bringing difference to bear......Page 26
Detailed overview......Page 29
Part I: Ordering Difference......Page 37
1 The Culture Challenge......Page 39
From behavior to meaning......Page 42
The culture question expanded......Page 45
Culture at the limit......Page 48
Colonial encounters......Page 49
The culture challenge with Kevin Avruch......Page 53
Culture without Cultures......Page 57
Possibilities of relatedness?......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 62
2 Governing Difference......Page 64
Mapping cultural governance......Page 66
Norms for governance......Page 72
Facilitative governance......Page 77
Normalization......Page 78
Confessional problem-solving......Page 82
Facilitating rational selves......Page 85
Governance achieved?......Page 89
Conclusion......Page 91
3 Sovereign Selves......Page 93
Sovereign knowledge and the subordination of difference......Page 96
Facilitating liberal governance: Sovereign self, sovereign state......Page 105
Fissured sovereignty......Page 111
Conclusion......Page 114
Part II: Exploring Relatedness......Page 117
4 Recognition and Relatedness......Page 119
Cosmopolitan conflict resolution......Page 121
The risks of recognition......Page 124
Recognizing selves......Page 126
Relatedness: Complementing recognition......Page 132
Relatedness: Beyond sovereignty?......Page 134
Conclusion......Page 142
5 Responding Anew......Page 144
Selves as resources......Page 146
Becoming-other......Page 149
Beyond reflexivity......Page 151
Avoiding self-indulgence......Page 154
Responsive complexity......Page 157
Networked relationality......Page 163
Conclusion......Page 166
Conclusion......Page 168
Ordering difference......Page 169
Toward a new politics?......Page 173
Notes......Page 179
Bibliography......Page 208
F......Page 222
R......Page 223
V......Page 224
