Beyond confrontation : learning conflict resolution in the post-Cold War era / [edited by] John A. Vasquez ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A Time for Resolution / James Turner Johnson and John A. Vasquez -- 1. Dispute Resolution - The Domestic Arena: A Survey of Methods, Applications, and Critical Issues / Robert A. Baruch Bush -- 2. Pacific, Impartial Third-Party Intervention in International Conflict: A Review and an Analysis / Ronald J. Fisher -- 3. Mediation Practice on the Home Front: Implications for Global Conflict Resolution / Deborah M. Kolb and Eileen F. Babbitt -- 4. Applications and Misapplications of Conflict Resolution Ideas to International Conflicts / Louis Kriesberg -- 5. The Psychology of Social Conflict and Its Relevance to International Conflict / Dean G. Pruitt -- 6. Conflict Provention as a Political System / John W. Burton -- 7. Why Global Conflict Resolution Is Possible: Meeting the Challenges of the New World Order / John A. Vasquez -- 8. International Law and the Peaceful Resolution of Interstate Conflicts / James Turner Johnson --

9. The Power Cycle and Peaceful Change: Assimilation, Equilibrium, and Conflict Resolution / Charles F. Doran -- 10. The Learning of Peace: Lessons from a Multidisciplinary Inquiry / John A. Vasquez.

The post-cold war era has given rise to new issues and disputes. Ethnic and nationalist violence disturb the peace and pose special problems for the strongest states and the United Nations. Beyond Confrontation: Learning Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War Era gives an overview of possible conflict resolution techniques that can be used to help manage and prevent these kinds of disputes in today's new world order. It outlines how to go beyond power politics and establish a politics of resolution.