Resolving Identity-Based Conflict In Nations, Organizations, and Communities - Hardcover

Rothman, Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787909963 ISBN 13: 9780787909963

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1997

Synopsis

Unleash Conflict's Creative Potential

Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in identity conflicts and how to overcome them. Provides a fascinating theoretical introduction to the phenomena, detailed case study experiences, and a final training guide for practitioners...a landmark work.
--Kevin Clements, director, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

Presenting a brilliant new approach to conflict resolution that will intrigue and inform practitioners and scholars alike. Writing from his remarkable range of academic and real-world experiences--including his historic work in bringing Israel and the PLO to the negotiation table--Rothman shows how identity-based conflict can be managed so that both parties reach a higher ground than either could have found on its own. His vehicle is his ARIA model, and here he traces the ARIA process through Antagonism, Resonance, Invention, and Action, demonstrating step-by-step how it can be applied in a variety of environments. Complete with field-tested assessment instruments and action plans, Resolving Identity-Based Conflict is a seamless union of theory and practice anyone seeking to turn the passion of conflict into the fuel of creativity can use.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Conflict can either destroy or create--depAnding on whether and how it is guided. This is the simple yet profound insight that underlies Jay Rothman's innovative new framework for understanding and transforming identity-based conflict in nations, organizations, and communities. Reading a newspaper, working in an organization, or sitting in on a town meeting can provide vivid examples of identity conflicts in action. Based in the national, organizational, and community groups that provide individuals with meaning, safety, and dignity, identity conflicts are passionate and volatile because they strike at our core: who we really are and what we care about most deeply. Though often impervious to traditional methods of conflict management, identity-based conflict also provides adversaries with dynamic opportunities for finding not only common ground, but higher ground than separate parties could have found on their own. Grounded in his grassroots conflict resolution work in the Middle East -- work that earned him the honor of witnessing the historic White House handshake between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO President Yasser Arafat -- and brilliantly refined to address a wide range of organizational and community conflicts, Rothman's ARIA model is a versatile and innovative synthesis of the best contemporary ideas in conflict management, resolution, and transformation. Step by step, Resolving Identity-Based Conflict traces the ARIA journey through Antagonism, Resonance, Invention, and Action in a variety of environments. In straightforward, jargon-free language, Rothman conveys solid theoretical insights and practical how-to's that allow researchers and practitioners to:

• Recognize the crucial differences between identity- and resource-based conflicts
• Zero in on the needs and motivations shared by even the bitterest of adversaries
• Create joint agendas for groups in conflict
• Transform intragroup and intergroup conflicts in organizations of every k

From the Back Cover

Can deep-seated indentity-based conflicts between passionately adversarial groups bring out the best as well as the worst in people? Drawing on his remarkable range of academic and conflict resolution experiences around the world, Jay Rothman shows how to harness the creative and tranformational power of conflict in our organizations, neighborhoods, and nations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0787909963
• ISBN 13: 9780787909963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224