This unique collection of comparable case studies addresses the need to assess modes of conflict resolution in a larger sociocultural context with attention to varying approaches and cultural perspectives. Editors Avruch, Black, and Scimecca, together with other anthropologists and sociologists, propose and test different propositions, while looking toward a general theory of conflict and conflict resolution. Their joint effort should be of real interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, indeed to all those concerned with ethnic studies and ethnoconflict today.
The contributors examine different theoretical concepts and approaches to conflict resolution in five different cultures, American, Arab, Asian, Latin American, and Pacific societies. The interdisciplinary study offers a broad range of vantage points for considering interpersonal, community, institutional, and national problems. The authors analyze concepts of personhood, the role of power and authority, ethical values, and methods for negotiating differences, and conflict resolution as an emerging discipline.
About the Author: KEVIN AVRUCH is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author of American Immigrants in Israel: Social Identities and Change (1981) and has written extensively on conflict resolution.
PETER W. BLACK is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He has written on conflict resolution, ethnopsychology, and political culture.
JOSEPH A. SCIMECCA is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He is the author of Sociology: Analysis and Application and Society and Freedom, among other works.
