"The real experts are the people who have lived through and accumulated knowledge about conflict."
As a North American who wishes to make some sense of cross-cultural conflict resolution, I feel somewhat humbled and out of place. Even more so since the expectation is that I will be able to shed some sliver of light on a context with which you as an audience are intimately involved. I also speak from a set of experiences from yet another cultural context – namely Central America.
The primary scope of my work and experience has been at the micro-level; community level training projects have proven to be fairly helpful “reflections” of conflict resolution process and the dynamics involved in any such relational activity. My discussion of conflict resolution at a micro community level does not, by any means, promote it as the only approach, nor the most indicated in many situations. Considering the experience of working with people in Central America, however, we strongly consider it to be the first and most practical step to take…
Lederach, John Paul. “Conflict Resolution in Cross Cultural Context.” In Facing the Enemy: Conflict Resolution in the Horn of Africa, edited by Harold F. Miller. Waterloo, Ontario: Horn of Africa Project, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Conrad Grebel College, 1989.
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An article describing the emergence and transformative impact of a community mediation program in Nepal.
A manuscript written for the Inter-racial and Cross-cultural Conflict Resolution Project at Conrad Grebel College's Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.
An exploration of prescriptive and elicitive methods of training and conflict work across cultures that places emphasis on the resources emergent from the context and setting of a given conflict.