Culture and International Conflict Resolution: A Critical Analysis of the Work of John Burton (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780719081408)

This book re-examines conflict resolution - and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution - from a new perspective. The book is a critical study of John Burton's work, and outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict. It provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle.

Väyrynen argues that culture has a constitutive role in international conflict and conflict resolution. Culture offers a grammar for acting in and interpreting the world, and provides understandings of conflict and its resolution. Theories which deny the importance of cultural failure to understand the ontological conditions of human 'being'.

Author: Tarja Vayrynen
ISBN-10: 0719081408
ISBN-13: 9780719081408
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.37d