Casebooks
Negotiation Alchemy: Global Skills Inspiring & Transforming Diverging Worlds
Nancy Erbe | $29.95
Negotiation Alchemy is the result of the author's work with cross ethnic process around the world for over two decades. To date, Professor Erbe's clients, colleagues and students come from about eighty countries, including several war-torn nations. The book presents several case study examples of success using the tools and skills of integrative negotiation and facilitative mediation within multicultural process. Extended case studies are presented of negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Cameroon, cross ethnic dialogue in the Balkans, court-mandated mediation in Nepal, and community mediation with minority communities in Ukraine.
Readers will be introduced to the power of negotiating parameters and process with all concerned in violent conflict and diversity's potential for critically needed innovation along with the negotiation specifics that facilitate such innovation. They will also learn the details required to effectively facilitate cross ethnic dialogue and negotiation in tough entrenched conflict like that faced in the regions and countries named above. These details begin the intimate descriptions of how communities around the world are using the tools and skills of integrative negotiation and facilitated, or mediated, negotiation to build democratic capacity. Students of negotiation with a global and cross cultural interest, as well as their teachers, will find many activities to help them develop the skills and awareness they need to join this exciting and rich global movement.
Professor Sozen, who commends the book, has worked with peacebuilding in Cyprus his whole career. He is a member of the one of the communities impacted by that tragic and tough conflict. Colonel Singh, who also recommends the book, has served twenty-one years of commissioned service in the Indian Army. He has closely seen insurgency in northeast India, Kashmir and Punjab.
Holding These Truths: Empowerment and Recognition in Action-Interactive Case Study Curriculum for Multicultural Dispute Resolution
Nancy Erbe | $24.95
"Many case studies in conflict resolution are only results oriented, which limits students and instructors from exploring the true-to-life complexities of the field. The studies in this text are process oriented. No preselected answers or results are provided, which models the obvious nature of actual conflict resolution. These case studies lead readers to challenge their own ethical awareness, instincts, and knowledge. They pose difficult, pertinent questions whose responses require careful reflection and research, such as 'Are you aware of different cultural perceptions regarding "interruption"?' and 'How does intimidation look, sound, and feel?' Case studies force readers to confront issues, both personal and impersonal, that they will inevitably encounter in real life conflict resolution scenarios.
"Being process oriented, the case studies presented in the text are helpful for instructors and students in many parts of the world. The principles debated and reflected upon are relevant to more than just the 'western' style mediator-they are applicable in numerous professional and cultural settings and prepare students for conflict resolution involving diverse actors, interests, and communication styles.
"After experiencing the realities of working in conflict resolution and peace building in the Balkans, I . . . have found [Nancy Erbe's unique lesson plans] reflected, more than any other classroom I was a part of, the realities of working in the field, and the difficulties of working with concepts such as 'violence,' 'peace,' and 'nonviolent conflict resolution' with individuals of different cultures."
-- Daniel Perez, Fulbright Scholar, Albania
"Professor Nancy Erbe introduces different levels and dimensions of conflicts, ranging from interpersonal to interethnic to international ones and offers valuable tools for mediators and arbitrators. The focus is on the fact that more and more global violence is interethnic or intergroup by nature and how 'citizen diplomacy' or what came to be known as 'second track diplomacy' by individuals and nonstate actors might bring about peaceful resolutions. The approach seems promising, especially with issues that have become intractable and where traditional international dispute resolution mechanisms can do little in terms of bringing critical social and political change."
-- Tenzin Bhuchung, Rotary World Peace Scholar
Making Government Work: California Cases in Policy, Politics, and Public Management
Barry Keene, editor | $21.95
Shaping public policy in a huge, diverse state like California is seldom easy. Those who hold power can rarely wield it without restraint. There are political rivals, interest groups, and wavering allies. Making Government Work teaches how to achieve public policy goals by thinking and acting politically.
Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things
Michel Laguerre | $15
In order to have ethnic minorities one must create a minoritized space, argues Laguerre. He provides a conceptual framework for the mechanisms that produce this minoritized space, the way it operates, and the technology of its reproduction, and explains how and why the spatial question is intrinsic to the minority question and crucial to our reevaluation of minority status in America.
Economic Earthquakes: Converting Defense Cuts to Economic Opportunities
Patrick Lloyd Hatcher | $21.95
In the 90s, California's economy bounced back after a decade of sharp cuts in defense spending. In three excellent case studies, Hatcher explains how out-moded military bases were converted into community productive assets.
