The Political Necessity of Transpersonal Work - Deep Democracy's Potential to Transform Polarized Conflicts

Marcella Rowek explores the paradigm of Deep Democracy and its potential to transform polarized conflicts in the context of the current refugee situation in Europe. Her approach to peace work and research is embedded in the Innsbruck School of Peace Studies' philosophy of Transrational Peaces and Lederach's Elicitive Conflict Transformation. At the heart of a deeply democratic attitude is the idea that all perspectives, experiences, feelings, body sensations and awareness levels of the conflicting parties have to be acknowledged and consciously worked with. Only then conflict transformation processes can unfold. This is linked to a systemic and transpersonal perspective, which assumes that not a single person, event or group triggers a conflict, but that it is systemically co-created.   

List of contents

Field Theories.- Transpersonal Psychology.- Conflict Transformation.- Worldwork.- Case Study Zurich.  

About the author

Marcella Rowek is a peace researcher from the MA program in Peace,Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at the University of Innsbruck. She strives for a culture of creativity and transrationality in community processes.   

Summary

Marcella Rowek explores the paradigm of Deep Democracy and its potential to transform polarized conflicts in the context of the current refugee situation in Europe. Her approach to peace work and research is embedded in the Innsbruck School of Peace Studies’ philosophy of Transrational Peaces and Lederach’s Elicitive Conflict Transformation. At the heart of a deeply democratic attitude is the idea that all perspectives, experiences, feelings, body sensations and awareness levels of the conflicting parties have to be acknowledged and consciously worked with. Only then conflict transformation processes can unfold. This is linked to a systemic and transpersonal perspective, which assumes that not a single person, event or group triggers a conflict, but that it is systemically co-created.   

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Product details

• Authors: Marcella Rowek
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783658221126
• ISBN: 978-3-658-22112-6
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 211 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 296 g
• Illustrations: IX, 214 p. 6 illus.
• Series: Masters of Peace; Masters of Peace
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; C, Das Selbst, das Ich, Identität und Persönlichkeit, Peace, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, personality, International Relations, Social Psychology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Community and Environmental Psychology, Community Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Peace studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Peace and Conflict Studies