Constructive Conflict Management [antikvár]

Foreword The Asia Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA) is the major régiónál organization representing academic and nonacademic peace and conflict researchers in East, South East, and South Asia and Australasia. It is one of four régiónál organizations within the International Peace Research Association. As then Secretary General of APPRA, I was very pleased to jóin the Research and Education for Peace Unit at the Universiti Sains Malaysia and The Asia Foundation in the design and organization of the Malaysian conference at which most of the case studies included in this book were presented. In organizing the conference it was clear that there was a fortuitous convergence of interests between the three "host" organizations and those of Fred Jandt and Paul Pedersen, the editors of this volume. All of us were concerned to spell out the extent to which the theory and practice of contemporary conflict resolution was bound to a Western cultural framework and what this might mean for theorists and practitioners from non-Occidental cultural traditions. The conference therefore focused on facilitating dialogue with and between colleagues from the Asia-Pacific region to determine whether or not there were significant cultural differences in relation to the sources, dynamics, and resolution of dysfunctional conflicts at both the micro and macro levels of action and analysis.1 To achieve this end, the organizers commis-