Intractable conflicts and their transformation

Syracuse University Press

1989

xv, 249 p.

Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-239) and index

9780815624707

Introduction: conceptual issues / Stuart J. Thorson Reasoning and intractability / Fred M. Frohock The roots of environmental conflict in the tahoe basin / Susan Hunter Beyond reason: spatial and temporal sources of ethnic conflicts / John Agnew The dynamic of identity in personal and social conflict / Terrell A. Northrup Custody disputes and the victims / Ruth L. Wynn Managing "the labor problem" in the United States ca. 1897-1911 / Jeffrey Haydu Transforming conflicts in the Middle East and Central Europe / Louis Kriesberg The west german greens: an evolving response to political conflict / John D. Nagle Measuring human values associated with wetlands / James F. Palmer and Richard C. Smardon Arab-jewish dialogue in the United States: toward track II tractability / Richard D. Schwartz Conclusion: research and policy implications / Louis Kriesberg

This work seeks to develop theory concerning the causes, evolution and transformation of intractability by means of analyzing conflicts in a wide variety of contexts. These range from divorce and custody cases to the international conflicts in the Middle East

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