Product Description: Including seminal conflict management research alongside cutting edge advances in each area of study, this new 4 volume collection will provide a comprehensive portrait of the state of conflict management research. Showcasing the complexities and interdependencies associated with the management of conflict in organizations, the collection will be a valuable contribution to the study of organizational conflict management by advancing the integration of the disciplinary insights, theories, and empirical evidence...read more

Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. To top it off, you have little power, money, or other resources to work with. Harvard professor (and negotiation advisor to organizations around the world) Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible.  Malhotra illustrates key lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting the US Constitution, resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis, ending bitter disputes in the NFL, and beating the odds in complex business situations, while showing how these same principles and tactics can be applied in everyday life.

Product Description: Examining the shortcomings of eliciting sustainable intra-state peace through the UN system and the underlying positive peace paradigm of the liberal traditions, the book maintains that a novel positive peace vision and framework under the auspices of the UN is warranted...read more

Product Description: The Law of International Conflict deals with three key principles of modern international law that are related to each other from a policy-oriented perspective. The prohibition in the UN Charter has not stopped the threat or use of force, since the system of collective security of the World Organization still fails to effectively enforce it...read more

Proposes an effective and timely solution to the potentially devastating problem of conflict and its resulting bitterness and regret, contending that only through developing an understanding of ourselves can we confront external conflicts to achieve realpeace.

Product Description: This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors. Building on critiques of liberal peace-building, it redefines critical peace and conflict studies, based on new research from 16 countries...read more

Product Description: Conflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through management and resolution has become a fundamental objective of the international system...read more

Product Description: "When leaders fail to confront conflict, they become the 'biggest elephant' in the room."In a survey of more than 4,000 CEOs, executives, and managers, more than 90 percent admitted they were uncomfortable confronting or engaging in conflict...read more

Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and holistic analysis of the socio-psychological dynamics of intractable conflicts. Daniel Bar-Tal's original conceptual framework is supported by evidence drawn from different disciplines, including empirical data and illustrative case studies...read more