I read this really interesting book this week, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf. Maalouf is Lebanese but has spent much of his life in France….
Category: systems
Quick Review: The Advantage
I’ve had this book for quite a while but never got around to reading it until last week. But it’s a great one-stop shop for organizational leadership. It basically is an integrated…
Quick Review: Culture & Conflict Resolution
I recently read Culture & Conflict Resolution by Kevin Avruch. This book is from the international negotiations realm but has some really good content on how to understand culture, identity, and conflict that extends into a lot…
Quick Review: Political Tribes
I got a chance to read Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua of Tiger Mom fame. Her realm of expertise is globalization and ethnic conflict, which is…
Quick Review: Restoring Justice
I read a few weeks back Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice by Daniel W. Van Ness and Karen Heetderks Strong as one of several different peacemaking systems I’ve been reading…
Quick Review: Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific
I have been reading Bruce E. Barnes’ Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific and found it unbelievably helpful as one who has been working in Asian contexts for the last decade…
Quick Review: Conflict Coaching
I’ve been working through the textbook Conflict Coaching: Conflict Management Strategies and Skills for the Individual by Tricia S. Jones and Ross Brinkert over the past few weeks. It was written about 15 years ago…
Quick Review: The Fire Next Time
I read James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time over the weekend and found it really powerful. I had wanted to read it for a while and have heard many people compare Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between…
Quick Review – Re-Centering: Culture & Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice
This month I’ve worked through the book Re-Centering: Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice by several editors and contributors. This is a book written from an ethnic minority perspective on contemporary negotiation…