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This book explains how public conflict resolution, civic fusion and mediative decision making help us re-learn the ability to find common ground on controversial issues with our fellow citizens in polarised societies.
List of contents
Introduction I. {disrupted societies} II. {overcoming social division} III. {the purposes of public conflict resolution} IV. {success and failure in public conflict resolution} V. {conflict resolution outcomes} VI. {analysing conflict resolution cases} VII. {brakes and accelerators to public conflict resolution} VIII. {blind spots and guidelines} IX. {keep on talking to your enemy}
About the author
Anatol Valerian Itten completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Lucerne and is a Managing Director at the Disrupted Societies institute in Amsterdam. He worked at the German Ministry for the Environment for the UN climate conference and was a research fellow at the University of Amsterdam. His insights on public conflict resolution have been published in international peer-reviewed journals and books.
Summary
This book explains how public conflict resolution, civic fusion and mediative decision making help us re-learn the ability to find common ground on controversial issues with our fellow citizens in polarised societies.
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"Anatol Valerian Itten helps us make sense of the intensity of our current social conflicts and provides a thorough analysis of the state of public policy mediation today. His analysis of a vast array of cases and particularly, our blind spots, is a must read for practicing mediators and academics." - Susan Podziba, author of Civic Fusion: Mediating Polarized Public Disputes
"This is an impressive analytical and empirical study on the conditions of successful mediation processes. The study closes the gap between the analytical and empirical focus of mediation research and the normative aspirations of deliberative theory, and provides rich ideas for how mediation ‘writ large’ can contribute to more viable schemes of coexistence in our fragmented and polarized societies." - André Bächtiger, University of Stuttgart, Germany
