Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780787953560)

Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of themediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change.Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical andtraditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places ofdispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamentalchange is the desired result. It means opening wounds and lookingbeneath the surface, challenging comfortable assumptions, andexploring dangerous issues such as dishonesty, denial, apathy, domestic violence, grief, war, and slavery in order to reach adeeper level of transformational change.

Mediating Dangerously shows conflict resolution professionals howto advance beyond the traditional steps, procedures, and techniquesof mediation to unveil its invisible heart and soul and to revealthe subtle and sensitive engine that drives the process of personaland organizational transformation. This book is a major newcontribution to the literature of conflict resolution that willinspire and educate professionals in the field for years to come.

Author: Kenneth Cloke
ISBN-10: 0787953563
ISBN-13: 9780787953560
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Language: English
Published: 03/20/2001
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.34w x 0.95d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 123