Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution

Kenneth Cloke

ISBN 10: 0787953563 / ISBN 13: 9780787953560

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001

About this Item

2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Explains reaching beyond technical and traditional intervention to the outer edges of dispute resolution, where fundamental change is the desired result. This book guides conflict resolution professionals to advance beyond traditional steps and techniques of mediation to unveil its invisible heart and soul. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 582. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787953563
• ISBN 13: 9780787953560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of themediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change.Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical andtraditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places ofdispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamentalchange is the desired result. It means opening wounds and lookingbeneath the surface, challenging comfortable assumptions, andexploring dangerous issues such as dishonesty, denial, apathy,domestic violence, grief, war, and slavery in order to reach adeeper level of transformational change.

Mediating Dangerously shows conflict resolution professionals howto advance beyond the traditional steps, procedures, and techniquesof mediation to unveil its invisible heart and soul and to revealthe subtle and sensitive engine that drives the process of personaland organizational transformation. This book is a major newcontribution to the literature of conflict resolution that willinspire and educate professionals in the field for years to come.

About the Author

The Author

Kenneth Cloke, director of the Center for Dispute Resolution in Santa Monica, California, has been a mediator, arbitrator, university professor, judge, counselor, coach, consultant, trainer, and designer of resolutions systems for over thirty years. He is the author of several books, including Resolving Conflicts at Work and Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict (both with Joan Goldsmith, Jossey-Bass, 2000).