Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Styles of conflict management vary across cultures. This unique volume uses cases drawn from the Asian and Pacific Island area to illustrate culture′s role in conflict mediation. The contributors focus in particular on how conflict within and between cultures can be successfully mediated on the micro-level (businesses and individuals) and how this success can be applied on the macro-level (government and organizations).
The cases examined in Constructive Conflict Management cover a variety of conflict types including: regional//cultural; nuclear and extended family; environmental; and neighbourhood disputes. The book reveals that, rather than a barrier, culture can prove to be a positive resource for the mediation of
Synopsis
How did environmental groups and a multinational company agree to halt logging operations in a Korean old-growth forest? How did the families of a Muslim woman and a Hindu man resolve a crisis in the couple's relationship? How did the government of China manage a copyright infringement case between a Japanese company and a Chinese business? Different cultures use a wide range of styles in managing conflict. Using cases drawn from the Asian and Pacific Island area, this unique volume examines how conflict within and between cultures can be successfully mediated on the micro (businesses and individuals) level and how this success can be applied to the macro (government and nongovernment organizations) level. The editors present models for conflict management in a cultural context and apply those models to 24 wide-ranging cases. The cases cover a variety of conflict types: regional/cultural, nuclear family, extended family, land and environmental, neighborhood disputes, and those involving indigenous peoples. The cases can be used for analysis and study individually or collectively to help develop models for dispute resolution in the Asia-Pacific region and to demonstrate the global relationships among culture, conflict, and dispute resolution. The book reveals how culture can provide a positive resource, rather than a barrier, for the mediation of multicultural conflict. Professional mediators, managers working in Asia-Pacific multicultural settings, family counselors, consultants, and students of conflict resolution, mediation, cross-cultural relations, psychology, and communication will find this book a useful perspective on understanding culture's role in conflict mediation.
Table of Contents
Culturally contextual models for creative conflict management / Paul B. Pedersen and Fred E. Jandt -- Community mediation in Malaysia / Wan Halim Othman -- The reconciliation system of R.O.C. / Shir-Shing Huang -- The moral recovery program as a political tool for social transformation in the Philippines / Maraya de Jesus Chebat -- Culture and conflict in Canada / Michelle Lebaron -- Nabin and Nasima : a clash of Hindu and Muslim communities / Madaripur Legal Aid Association -- Khukumoni and Masud / Madaripur Legal Aid Associaton -- Rawshan Ara : the victim of polygamy / Madaripur Legal Aid Association -- Conflict over the role of women in contemporary China / Xue Wang -- The effects of tribal wars on personal and family disputes in Papua New Guinea / Julie Foster Smith -- Mediation - effective way of conflict resolution, Sri Lanka experience / Ariya Rubasinghe -- Ishaq gets back land after 40 years / Madaripur Legal Aid Association -- Vendetta and buddhist mediator in southern Thailand / Chalidaporn Songsamphan -- Tiger saves taiga : saving the Siberian ecosystem from Hyundai's logging operations / Jae Hyun Yoo -- Toxic waste management in Malaysia / Gurmit Singh -- The dumping of industrial waste in Teshima, Japan / Masaki Yokoyama -- Child labor in Nepal's carpet industries / Gauri Pradhan -- Arbitration in Thailand / Nacha Worawattanamateekul -- China and Japan dispute copyright of Ultraman toys / Lu Guojiang -- Han and Hui and a shared cooking stove / Lu Guojiang -- Citizens' right to their reputation / Lu Guojiang -- Manakamana village's demand for drinking water / Jagadish C. Pokharel -- An indigenous perspective on one aspect of reconcilation / Pauline Tangiora -- Philippine rural development and indigenous communities / Eduardo C. Tadem -- Recent attempt at ethnic conflict resolution in Sri Lanka / Jayadeva Uyangoda -- The cultural context of mediation and constructive conflict management / Fred E. Jandt and Paul B. Pedersen.