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Working with Conflict: Skills & Strategies for Action
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Simon Fisher, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Jawed Ludin, Richard Smith, Steve Williams, & Sue Williams. Published by Zed books in Association with Responding to Conflict, 2000
This source book is for people working in areas affected by conflict and violence. Easy to use, well laid out, and including helpful visual materials, it provides a range of practical tools - processes, ideas, visual aids and techniques - for tackling conflict. These tools have been developed over a number of years by peacebuilding practitioners from around the world.
The book embodies and reflects the rich diversity of over 300 practitioners from some 70 countries who, in ASC Working with Conflict courses, have pooled their varied experiences and methods of practice, which have then been adapted to suit a wide range of situations. Examples and cases are drawn from around the world - including Cambodia, Afghanistan, South Africa, Kenya, Northern Ireland and Colombia.
The book highlights the options available to individuals and organisations; equips them with a basis on which they can plan what responses are possible; and strengthens their capacity to engage in useful interventions.
For all practitioners who are working in conflict-prone and unstable parts of the world in the fields of development, relief work, human rights, community relations, peace and reconciliation, this book should prove an invaluable support.
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Transforming Conflict: Reflections of practitioners worldwide
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ACTION for Conflict Transformation: a global initiative from the grassroots. Published by ACTION, 2003
Violent conflict disrupts lives and livelihoods, destroys societies and economies, and reduces people's access to basic services. Increasing inequality between the rich and the poor, between the privileged few and the many who are lacking basic needs, leads to increasing tensions and often to rising violence at the local levels. Much violent conflict is linked to underlying injustices that are not being addressed.
The members of ACTION for Conflict Transformation aim to work together in different regions and continents, as well as globally, to plan, co-ordinate and implement holistic and multi-faceted responses and programmes of Conflict Transformation, providing an alternative way forward in building a culture of hope, peace and justice for future generations.
This book is intended to be a source book for people working on Conflict Transformation and Peace Building in many different countries and situations around the world. It is not a manual of how to do the work so much as a collection of real-life examples and experiences from which the reader can gain insights about what might be possible or appropriate in one's own context.
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Conflict and Governance in South Africa: Moving towards a more just and peaceful society
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Alison Joubert, Ann Bernstein, Clifford Shearing, Charmaine Estment, Diana Sanchez, Emprem Tadesse Geoffrey Modisha, Jacob Akech, Jan Froestad, Jennifer Irish-Qhobeshean, John Rocha, Leanne Scott, Leaza Kolkenbeck-Ruh, Monica Juma, Nico Steytler, Richard Gueli, Richard Smith, Roger Southall (ed), Sandy Johnston , Sybert Liebenberg, Tara Polzer and Yonaan T. Fessha.
Published by CAGE, 2007
This is a collection of research essays that cover issues ranging from studies of local government protests, to the social economy of organised crime in Southern Africa, to strategies for rebuilding Africa’s ‘Broken States’ as well as other notable contributions that take up the themes governance and peacebuilding on the continent.
It is a publication that constitutes valuable reading for all those who are arlet to the potential role that knowledge can play in building peace and good governance.
ACTION contributed two chapters to this book: Building peace through knowledge and learning:
Reflections from CAGE and Whose policy and why is it foreign? (click on the PDF icon to download the document)
Exploring the impact of civil society influence on South African foreign policy. (click on the PDF icon to download the document)
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