Beyond Neutrality: Confronting the Crisis in Conflict ResolutionISBN: 978-0-7879-6806-9
Hardcover
336 pages
May 2004, Jossey-Bass
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--William Ury, co-author, Getting to Yes and author, The Third Side
“Takes us into challenging and potentially transforming
territory by shedding light on how too narrow a commitment to
neutrality or an exclusive focus on ‘resolving’
disputes can limit our usefulness in the clashes of passion,
positions, and power struggles inherent in how people actually
confront (and avoid) their deepest conflicts.”
--Gail Bingham, president, RESOLVE, Inc.
“As professional fields develop, people look back and
identify a few books that stand out because they marked
turning points wherein the stroke of a pen incisively pushed both
theory and practice to a higher plane of understanding and purpose.
Beyond Neutrality will mark such a place for the conflict
resolution field in the first decade of this century.”
--John Paul Lederach, professor, the Kroc Institute and Eastern
Mennonite University
“This book will inspire conversations that will shape our
field for years to come.”
--David Hart, CEO, Association for Conflict Resolution
“Guaranteed to spark lively debate and
dialogue.”
--Nina Meierding, former president, Academy of Family Mediators
“The first major step toward the field’s
‘second wave.’”
--Christopher Honeyman, director, Broad Field Project
"Berine Mayer's book is honest, forthright, nd filled with wise
and loving criticism for the field of conflict resolution heas
significantly helped to build."
--Jay Rothman, president, ARIA Group, and author, Resolving
Identity-Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations and
Communities
“Mayer exposes some tough realities that focus on how we
have limited our identity, narrowly defined what we do, and why
disputants don’t always like what we have to
offer.”
--Brian Polkinghorn, associate professor, Conflict Analysis and
Dispute Resolution, and executive director, Center for Conflict
Resolution, Salisbury University
“Beyond Neutrality is a foundational work for
creating a deepened, more robust field. The premises of this book
will be debated, revised, and expanded, but they will set the
agenda for our field for the next generation.”
--Carl Schneider, director, Mediation Matters, Bethesda,
Maryland