Re-Envisioning Conflict Resolution: Vision, Action and Evaluation in Creative Conflict Engagement / Edition 1

by Jay Rothman

Overview

This book explores the process of assessing success in the field of conflict resolution, with a focus on the Action Evaluation method pioneered by the author.

Since the early days of the field of conflict resolution, researchers and practitioners have been trying to determine how to define and assess success. Are its various approaches to engaging conflict effective? How is effective defined and operationalized and by whom? How might we know? Action Evaluation (AE), a methodology for defining, promoting and assessing success in and of the field, has been developed over the past two decades to answer these questions theoretically and in-use. It was designed from its inception to help create sound and contextualized standards around which the field could coalesce. AE is an appropriate methodology for evaluation of conflict engagement, in part because it is grounded in key values of the field, like participation, ownership and the constructive engagement of conflict among stakeholders in project development and implementation. By illustrating how AE is applied through case studies, and providing tools for others to use, this book is intended to make AE a more widely available, user-friendly and rigorous action-research tool for researchers and practitioners in the still-emerging field and beyond.

This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies, research methods and international relations in general, as well as practitioners in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367233310
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/31/2019
Series:	Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jay Rothman is President of the ARIA Group, Inc., a conflict engagement and evaluation consulting firm based in the USA, and is Senior Researcher at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Associate Professor of conflict resolution at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is author of From Identity-Based Conflict to Identity-Based Cooperation (2012).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Defining, Promoting and Assessing Success in Creative Conflict Engagement 2. Thinking and Acting for Peace: Epistemologies of Practice 3. Building a Community of Practice in Environmental Disputes: Gone Fishing 4. Developing a Community of Inquiry in Intergroup Conflict: The Power of Why and reflection as practice 5. Cincinnati Police-Community Relations Collaborative: "Just-Talk" 6. Conclusion: Systematic Collaborative Visioning for Action and Evaluation in Creative Conflict Engagement Appendix: Action Evaluation Practices Overview