Sustained Dialogue in Conflicts Transformation and Change [Hardcover]

Citizens in our deeply, angrily divided world desperately need peaceful and productive ways of relating to each other. Rooted in four decades of intense experience in deep-seated human conflicts, Saunders presents a peaceful way of transforming destructive relationships and designing change.Why Sustained Dialogue?? PART I: HISTORICAL SETTING AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK The First Half-Century: Setting and Timeline? Peace Process: Pre-1982 Roots of Sustained Dialogue? Framework for Analysis: Sustained Dialogue as Process? PART II: THE FIRST LABORATORY Beginning a Dialogue: Dialogue about Dialogue? How to Talk about Problems and Relationships: The Struggle for Dialogue? Talking, Listening, and Thinking Interactively: Dialogue Experienced? Thinking Together about Acting Together: Sustained Dialogue Takes Shape? Conceptualizing the Process? PART III: TESTING THE FIVE-STAGE PROCESS OF SUSTAINED DIALOGUE The First Test: Tajikistan? Testing the Limits: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh; P.Stewart ? Arab-American-European Dialogue: Working Together toward a New Relationship between the Arab Region and the West (2001-2007); R.Slim? PART IV: SUSTAINED DIALOGUE IN PEACEBUILDING Mini-dialogues and Hybrids in Tajikistan; P.Mullojanov ?& R.Slim ? Process, Place, and People: The Three P's of Sustained Dialogue in South Africa; T.Nemeroff ? Sustained Dialogue Campus Network; P.Parker ? PART V: REFLECTIONS Evaluation in an Open-ended Political Process: Civic Learning and the Citizen Evaluator? Transforming Relationships. . .Designing Change

As a skilled and outstanding diplomat, Harold H. Saunders knows how to identify problems, and more importantly, how to solve them. In Sustained Dialogue in Conflicts, Saunders has done both. His book defines the deeply divided American culture that threatens the way our democratic politics operate. And it provides a diplomatic guide to a more civil way of resolving political differences so that our country can remain the very best inlñ