I just finished not too long ago the book Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on the New Paradigm of Peace and War edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. This was…
Category: cross-cultural
Quick Review: Cultural Intelligence
I was able to read recently Cultural Intelligence: Surviving and Thriving in the Global Village by David C. Thomas and Kerr Inkson. There is a newer edition out than the one I…
Quick Review: The Culture Map
I’ve been going through Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done and I’ve found extremely helpful for me in my context. If you’re just stopping by, I’m…
Quick Review: In the Name of Identity
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….
Quick Review: Tears We Cannot Stop
Last week I got a chance to read Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. It is in the same vein as James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, which were also quite powerful…
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: Resolving Identity Based Conflict
As I continue in my research, a unique and different mediation or conflict intervention model is found in Jay Rothman’s Resolving Identity-Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations, and Communities. Rothman’s model is the…
Quick Review: Negotiating the impossible
I just finished and really enjoyed Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts by Deepak Malhotra. It’s the next negotiation book in quite a line of them that I am reading. Malhotra is…
Quick Review: How to Think
I have greatly enjoyed Alan Jacobs’ How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. But at the time of writing, the e-book is $1.99 at last check so I’d encourage you to check it out if you haven’t…