Pinning Down Peace: Towards a Multi-Dimensional,
Clustered Measure of Mediation Success
By
Evan Hoffman and Isak Svensson - April, 2012
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a copy here
The Relationship Between Theory and Practice in the Conflict
Resolution Field
By
Evan Hoffman - January, 2012
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a copy here
Conflict Expressed
Through Electronic Communication:
Ramifications for the Mediation Process
By Renée Gendron - February, 2011
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a copy here
Negotiating Agreements
in Multi-party, Multi-issue Contexts
By
Evan Hoffman - July, 2010
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a copy here
The Mediator's Handbook
for Durable Peace
By
Evan Hoffman - 2010
This
handbook examines the
question of how mediators can improve the prospects that durable peace
will follow from a mediation process. Agreement design, spoiler
management, and managing the parties' power dynamics at and away from
the table are topics of special interest in this handbook as they are
of primary concern to ensuring that an agreement will endure and
durable peace will flourish. An original model of durable peace is
presented plus numerous practical tactics for designing good
agreements, managing spoilers, and chanelling the parties' power
struggle into nonviolent mechanisms and processes.
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Organi-Cultural Deviance
By
Christie Husted and
Renée Gendron - May, 2010
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the short version in
English here
or click here
for the French version
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the full version in
English here
or click here
for the French version
Download the powerpoint
presentation in English here
or click here
for the
French version
Is it Good to be Bad?
Ethical Dilemmas in Peacemaking
By
Evan Hoffman - April, 2010
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Power Tactics:
Successful Negotiation from a Disadvantageous
Position
By Evan Hoffman -
March, 2010
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Peace Guerilla: Unarmed
and in Harms Way, My Obsession with
Ending Violence
By
Ben Hoffman - 2010
Peace
Guerilla is a vivid memoir that illuminates the process of dealing with
fearsome brutal leaders one would be afraid to have dinner with - and
why we should do so. There is tension when Hoffman, as President Jimmy
Carter's representative, travels deep into the African bush in Sudan to
meet face to face with Joseph Kony, a violent war lord who was
abducting
children in Uganda to be soldiers in his Lord's Resistance Army and
terrorizing the population. There are insights on every page on topics
ranging from negotiating techniques, US diplomacy, and the emotional,
intellectual and technical effort required to mediate high-stakes peace
agreements. And there is the heartbreak of failure and its tragic
consequences.Hoffman discovers that a mediator must discard neutrality
in favour of a bias for peaceful agreement. A mediator must wage peace
with the same intensity and creative tactics as the guerilla fighter
pursues violent domination. At the heart of it all is the challenge of
transforming power from violence to peace; and that in turn brings our
values into sharp focus. Peace Guerilla is exciting, instructive, and
conveys a sense of immediacy which is nearly cinematic. Some parts of
Ben Hoffman's story will be featured in the upcoming Hollywood movie
Girl Solider.
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Information
Communication Technology and Online Mediation
By Renée Gendron - February
2010
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Win that Agreement:
Confessions of a Real World Mediator
By
Ben Hoffman - December 2009
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IPPP - Rule of Law Needs
Assessment
By
Richard Moore and Sylvia McMechan - February 2009
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A Model for a
Whole-of-Problem Approach to Preventing Violent
Conflict
By
Evan Hoffman - March 2008
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The
Peace Guerilla Handbook
By Ben
Hoffman
- 2007
This
Handbook is for anyone charged with the
task of preventing political violence or with building peace. The
Handbook puts flesh on the bones of commonly recited 'best practices'
for peacebuilding: that action be theory informed, holistic,
comprehensive, collaborative, facilitative, and sustained. It goes
further, calling upon the peacebuilder to apply unconventional
methodologies in an ever-vigilant effort to remove violence and to
build the conditions in society that will make positive peace
sustainable.
Cost:
$11.00 Cdn. + $2 Shipping and Handling
($3.50 for U.S. customers and $4.50 for international orders). Orders
of 2 or more books are invoiced on a per cost basis.
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Preventing Political
Violence: Towards a Model for Catalytic
Action
By
Ben Hoffman and Evan Hoffman - 2006
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Bridge
the Knowledge-Action Gap! The
Authoritative Statement on How to Reduce Political Violence
By
Ben Hoffman - 2004
This
study of activities in conflict
prevention, mediation and post-violence peacebuilding is now available.
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1+1=3:
New Math for Human Relations
By
Ben Hoffman - 2003
A
novel approach using the
metaphor of math to present concepts such as power, synergy, and
humanity's potential of living at The Creative Power Frontier by moving
on a"power axis" from forms of "power over" to "power with". The reader
is introduced as being number "1". There are other 1s and the mystery
of life is symbolized by the number 0. The Power Axis (developed in a
Ph.D. thesis on forms of power in war and peace) is presented in
personal and spiritual terms, taking into account "1's" orientation to
creation, self and others. A non-religious, humanist case is made for
overcoming alientation from creation and other "1s," and in doing so,
finding the synergy possible in human relationships. How to move on the
Power Axis from "power over" to "power with" is addressed in the
Alchemy of Power. The critical issue of whether there is a moral
imperative for humanity ("what ought 1 to do?") is addressed
affirmatively in the chapter, The Ought of 1. A section at the end
called "exercises" is less stereotyped than these tend to be, offering
tasks that help guide the reader through a number of stages of
existential and consciousness-raising experiences. Short, uncluttered,
innovative.
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Mediation &
Negotiation Roleplays
CIIAN's
mediation and negotiation roleplays are now available for purchase.
These valuable learning tools have been developed and used by
CIIAN's
Staff and Associates in numerous training courses around the world over
the last seventeen years.
CIIAN's Mediation
& Negotiation Roleplay Catalogue currently has 19 exercises in
it, ranging from simple two-party negotiation exercises which
can
be
completed in under an hour to much more complex multi-party,
multi-issue cases, and more are continually being added. Each
roleplay
is priced at $24.99/use.
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our mediation
& negotiation roleplays
catalogue here...
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