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The Mediator's Handbook for Durable Peace
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Preventing Political Violence: Towards a Model for Catalytic Action
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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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English 
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. 
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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 sterotyped 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.