Conflict and collaboration : for better or worse / edited by Catherine Gerard and Louis Kriesberg.

"In this volume, scholars from different disciplines join together to examine the overlapping domains of conflict and collaboration studies. It examines the relationships between ideas and practices in the fields of conflict resolution and collaboration from multiple disciplinary perspectives. The central theme is that conflict and collaboration can be good, bad, or even benign depending on a number of factors. These include the role of power, design of the process itself, skill level and intent of the actors, social contexts, and world views. The book demonstrates that various blends of conflict and collaboration can be more or less constructively effective. It discusses specific cases, analytical methods, and interventions, and emphasizes both developing propositions and reflecting on specific cases and contexts. The book concludes with specific policy recommendations for many sets of actors- those in peacebuilding, social movements, government, and communities- plus students of conflict studies. This book will be of much interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of peace and conflict studies, public administration, sociology and political science"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Improving social relations / Louis Kriesberg -- The Long Island, New York pine barrens experience: from confrontation to consensus / Susan L. Senecah -- Understanding the link between collaboration and better or worse relations: the view from public administration / Catherine Gerard and Rosemary O'Leary -- Building the International Space Station: leadership, conflict, and collaboration / W. Henry Lambright -- The future of public participation: better design, better relations / Tina Nabatchi, Suyeon Jo -- Conflict as troubling waters? how steering for results can impede the public administrator as conflict arbiter / Eva Wolf -- Coercing consensus? notes on power and the hegemony of collaboration / Robert A. Rubinstein, Shaundel N. Sanchez and Sandra D. Lane -- Government collaborations in Belize Central America: from better to worse in shared ecological conservation governance? / Steven R. Brechin and Osmany Salas -- The role of coercion in collaboration / John S. Burdick -- Concentric circles of sisterhood: American nuns respond to Vatican kyriarchy / Margaret Susan Thompson -- Conflict and collaboration in international relations theory / Robert M. Demgenski and Miriam Fendius Elman -- Collaboration, conflict, and the search for sustainable peacebuilding / Bruce W. Dayton.