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Synopsis
We've been taught that war is human nature, & that there is little that we as individuals can do about it. Here is a book which turns the conventional wisdom upside down & shows why & how peace is now within our grasp. Based on two decades of research & new anthropological evidence, the book revisits our past & radically reframes old perceptions of human conflict. Presents a powerful new approach for dealing with human differences. Ury calls it the Third Side. In every dispute there are not just two sides, but an untapped third side that can transform destructive conflicts into cooperation. Using real-life examples from the family, the school, the workplace, & the world, he gives ten practical ways we can all tap the power of the third side.
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About the Author
William Ury is the co-founder of Harvard's Program on Negotiation, where he directs the Project on Preventing War. One of the world's leading negotiation specialists, his past clients include dozens of Fortune 500 companies as well as the White House and Pentagon. Ury received his B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard. His books Getting to Yes and Getting Past No have sold more than five million copies worldwide.
From Publishers Weekly
Ury, coauthor of Getting to Yes and Getting Past No, takes on a global issueAhow people can live at peace with one another. Citing last spring's shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., as an example of horrible violence, Ury examines the myths about violence and offers some surprising insights and solutions. Using his anthropological fieldwork, Ury describes how the African Bushmen solve conflicts: no violence, whether it be raised voices or hitting children, is permitted; instead, there must be a dialogue until a solution to the problem is achieved. Anyone who is unwilling to work on a resolution verbally ends up leaving. Ury reports that Bushmen speak of a "third side," a point of view that represents not the interests of one of two parties to a conflict but rather the interests of the community as a whole. Ury then enumerates 10 "third side roles" that can be brought to bear on a conflict. These include mediator, arbitrator, equalizer and healer. Though filled with intelligent insight into the nature of human conflict, Ury's ideas are based on the premise that "humanity is in the midst of a social, economic, and political transformation just as far-reaching as the Agricultural Revolution ten thousand years ago." Skeptical readers will find that Ury comes close to asserting that human nature itself is changing. The book is full of good advice about conflict resolution, even if its more sweeping generalizations about the future eradication of war appear to be based more on optimism than on observation. (Oct.)
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- PublisherViking/Penguin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0756768128
- ISBN 13 9780756768126
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages250
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