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Informationen zum Autor Alice Frazer Evans is the Director of Writing and Research, Plowshares Institute. Co-Director Emeritus, Association for Case Teaching, and Visiting Scholar, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town. She is an elder and lay leader in the United Presbyterian Church. A prolific case writer, she has focused on the development of international case studies with special attention to the use of cases in conflict resolution training. She is the author and an editor of a number of books employing the case study approach. She is a Co-National Coordinator of the CERJ program for which she developed curriculum material. Robert A. Evans is the Executive Director of Plowshares Institute and Visiting Professor, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town. He has taught on the faculty of both U.S. and international graduate schools and, as an ordained Presbyterian pastor, he has served churches in the United States and Europe. He has extensive experience in adapting the case method approach to conflict resolution and is the author of a number of books in areas such as human rights, education, development and theology. He served as Coordinator for Empowering for Reconciliation with Justice (ERJ) in South Africa and as Director of a project to apply ERJ learnings in other parts of the world. Klappentext The Peace Skills Leaders' Guide Community Conflict Transformation (CCT) training helps communities and parties bogged down in what often seem to be irresolvable conflicts to build skills, achieve new levels of respect and empowerment, and develop mutually beneficial agreements. The Peace Skills Set (which includes the Leaders' Guide and Manual for Community Mediators) is based on the experiences and insights of mediators and trainers from four continents. The Leaders' Guide provides community leaders the tools and information they need to lead CCT training sessions and includes ? Examples and guidelines for using case studies to develop mediation skills ? Sacred and authoritative texts that promote moral, spiritual, and cultural values for building peace with justice. ? Models and designs of training workshops that effectively engage citizens in addressing their conflicts, restoring relations, and reforming structures Peace Skills: Manual for Community Mediators The Peace Skills: Manual for Community Mediators is a hands-on resource for leaders who seek to be agents of reconciliation by responding proactively to painful differences within their communities. The Peace Skills Set (which includes the Leaders' Guide and Manual for Community Mediators) describes skills and strategies to help individuals, organizations, and communities in conflict talk things through and become stronger in the process. Based on successful conflict transformation workshops conducted in countries around the world, the Manual for Community Mediators offers guidance and tools for ? Bringing conflicting parties into a four-stage mediation process ? Assisting parties to resolve their own issues ? Getting beyond the barriers of language and miscommunication ? Designing processes for responding to group conflicts Zusammenfassung In a world increasingly filled with conflict! our standard approach to dealing with strife--sending in experts to mediate and keep the peace--is not working. But in recent years a simple and more powerful approach has been steadily gaining followers. ...
