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Despite considerable progress in research and practice in the constructive transformation of intractable conflicts beginning in the 1970s, many terribly destructive conflicts have recently erupted. New circumstances have emerged that have resulted in regressions.
The contributions in this book examine many of the new challenges and obstacles to the transformation of intractable conflicts. It also offers an array of new and promising opportunities for constructive transformations. The book brings together analyses of U.S.-based conflicts with those from many regions of the world. International, intra-state, and local conflicts are explored, along with those that have been violent and non-violent. The diversity in disciplines among the authors provides a wide range of theoretical approaches to explaining how a variety of intractable conflicts can be transformed.
Case studies of local, national, and transnational conflicts serve to illustrate this new landscape. These analyses are complemented by conceptual discussions relating to new conflict systems, actors, dynamics and strategies. Policy implications of findings are also presented.
List of contents
Introduction
Galia Golan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Louis Kriesberg, Syracuse University
Chapter 2: Gendered Perspective on Intractable Conflicts and Power Sharing
Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Chapter 3: Mapping and Monitoring Global Insecurity and the Global Illicit Economy: The Effects of Intractable Conflicts
Margaret Hermann, Syracuse University
Chapter 4: Unrecognized States: Theory, Cases, and Policy Implications
Kristy Buzard, Syracuse University; Benjamin A.T. Graham, University of Southern California; Ben Horne
Chapter 5: Transformation of Armed Conflict: Lessons from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Galia Golan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chapter 6: Dynamics Contexts of Conflict: Complicated Actors and Settings in Northern Ireland
Ronit Berger, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
Chapter 7: Social Media Use and Fear Levels after the Paris 2015 Attacks: A Comparative Study
Bernard Enjolras, Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway; Shana Kushner Gadarian, Syracuse University; Kari Steen-Johnsen, Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway
Chapter 8: The Creation of Space for Conflict Change: Context, Society and Leadership in Northern Ireland during the 1990s
Nimrod Rosler, Tel Aviv University
Chapter 9: Between Ripeness and Necessity: Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Tipping Point for External Intervention
Timea Spitka, Hebrew University
Chapter 10: Global Imbalances, Currency Wars, and U.S. Hegemony
Stuart Brown, Syracuse University
Chapter 11: Responding to Gun Murders in Syracuse, NY: A Multilevel, Multimodal Interventions Approach
Robert Rubinstein, Syracuse University; Sandra D. Lane, Syracuse University; Timothy "Noble" Jennings-Bey, Street Addiction Institute, Inc., Syracuse, NY; Najah Salaam
Chapter 12: Intergroup Dialogue, Constructive Conflict and Social Power: Towards Transforming Inequality
Diane Swords, Intergroup Dialogue Program, Syracuse University
Chapter 13: Transforming Conflicts: Barriers and Overcoming Them
Daniel Bar-Tal, Tel Aviv University
Chapter 14: Back to the Tribes: Tribes' Centrality in Iraq's Inter-community Rapprochement
Amatzia Baram, University of Haifa
Chapter 15: U.S. and North Korea: A Gordian Conflict
Stuart Thorson, Syracuse University; Hyunjin Seo, University of Kansas
Chapter 16: Transit Migration, Borders, and Activism: Understanding the Changing Geographies and Temporalities of International Migration
Jared Van Ramshorst and Jamie Winders, Syracuse University
Chapter 17: Transforming Intractable Conflicts under the Shadow of the Past: The Sunk Cost and Inaction Inertia Effects
Lesley Terris, Lauder School of Government, Policy and Diplomacy of the Interdisciplinary Center; Orit E. Tykocinski, Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)
Chapter 18: Velvet Transformation in South Africa: Mandela, De Klerk, or Something Else
Mordechai Tamarkin, Tel Aviv University
Chapter 19: The Fractal Nature of Intractable Conflict: Implications for Sustainable Transformation
Joshua Fisher and Peter T. Coleman, Columbia University
Chapter 20: From Peacebuilding to Constructive Conflict Management: Reconsidering Intervention under Conditions of Intractability
Bruce W. Dayton, SIT Graduate Institute, School for International Training
Conclusion: Looking Forward
Catherine Gerard, Syracuse University and Miriam Elman, Syracuse University
About the author
Edited by Miriam F. Elman; Catherine Gerard; Galia Golan and Louis Kriesberg
