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Auteur van The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
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Building peace: sustainable reconciliation in… door John Paul Lederach
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cpcs-acts | 2 andere besprekingen | Sep 25, 2020 | John Paul Lederach blends a special training tradition in mediation with a tradition derived from his work in development. Throughout, he uses anecdote and pertinent experiences to demonstrate his resolution techniques. Preparing for Peace is the most innovative and comprehensive guide available for training and working across cultures and will be of value to those involved in resolution activities through development, relief, and nongovernmental agencies.
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cpcs-acts | Sep 24, 2020 | A foundational work for peacebuilders. Lederach comes out of the Mennonite tradition and writes within the Catholic tradition. His ideas, set out in this book, have become the basis for Catholic peacebuilding throughout the world.
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John5918 | 2 andere besprekingen | Mar 27, 2013 | A good book for those who are uneasy at the increased bureaucratisation of peace and the influence of the ever more technocratic peace industry. Although Lederach is one of the leaders in strategies for peacebuilding from a Christian perspective, here he calls for a move beyond skills and techniques to explore stories and metaphor, intuition and serendipity, relationships and context, art and soul, in peace-building.
Lederach says, “I am uneasy with the growing technique-oriented view
of change in settings of violence that seems to dominate much of
professional conflict resolution approaches”. He speaks of “invoking
the moral imagination... which is not found in perfecting or applying the techniques or the skills of a process... My feeling is that we have overemphasized the technical aspects and political content to the detriment of the art of giving birth to and keeping a process creatively alive". (pp 52 and 70)
Lederach says, “I am uneasy with the growing technique-oriented view
of change in settings of violence that seems to dominate much of
professional conflict resolution approaches”. He speaks of “invoking
the moral imagination... which is not found in perfecting or applying the techniques or the skills of a process... My feeling is that we have overemphasized the technical aspects and political content to the detriment of the art of giving birth to and keeping a process creatively alive". (pp 52 and 70)
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John5918 | 2 andere besprekingen | Mar 27, 2013 | An exploration of the dynamic of conflict and presentation of a framework for peace building in which structure, process, resources, training and evaluation are coordinated in an attempt to transform the conflict and affect reconciliation.
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anne_fitzgerald | 2 andere besprekingen | Oct 31, 2008 | A clearly articulated statement that offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict - that eternally beleaguering human situation.
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anne_fitzgerald | 1 andere bespreking | Oct 30, 2008 | Gemarkeerd
gininelson | 2 andere besprekingen | Jun 25, 2007 | This book aims high and, in my opinion, largely fails. When I began this book, fellow classmates told me that I would appreciate it as I am a student of conflict transformation and the creative practices.
While I did enjoy Mr.Lederach's unique take on the importance of the arts and the undervaluing of intuitive elements within peacebuiding, I found the writing style almost unreadable. Mr. Lederach wanders from place to place, mentioning everything from spider web watchers to rock-hounding in theories that he himself continuesly undercuts. This, combined with a loose writing structure and an impressive vocabularly, made the book quite difficult to get through. I appreciated the ideas, not their execution. It was however, a good attempt at a field rich with possibility. Better luck next time.
While I did enjoy Mr.Lederach's unique take on the importance of the arts and the undervaluing of intuitive elements within peacebuiding, I found the writing style almost unreadable. Mr. Lederach wanders from place to place, mentioning everything from spider web watchers to rock-hounding in theories that he himself continuesly undercuts. This, combined with a loose writing structure and an impressive vocabularly, made the book quite difficult to get through. I appreciated the ideas, not their execution. It was however, a good attempt at a field rich with possibility. Better luck next time.
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opinion8dsngr | 2 andere besprekingen | Apr 22, 2007 | "This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to
conflict - that eternally beleaguering human situation. Lederach explores why
'conflict transformation' is more appropriate than 'conflict resolution' or
'management.' But he refuses to be drawn into impractical idealism. He asks not
simply, 'How do we end something not desired?', but, 'How do we end something
destructive and build something desired?' How doe we deal with the immediate
crisis, as well as the long-term situation? What disciplines make such thinking
and practices possible?" --back cover
conflict - that eternally beleaguering human situation. Lederach explores why
'conflict transformation' is more appropriate than 'conflict resolution' or
'management.' But he refuses to be drawn into impractical idealism. He asks not
simply, 'How do we end something not desired?', but, 'How do we end something
destructive and build something desired?' How doe we deal with the immediate
crisis, as well as the long-term situation? What disciplines make such thinking
and practices possible?" --back cover
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collectionmcc | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 6, 2018 | Links
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