Beyond Neutrality: Confronting the Crisis in Conflict Resolution

Author: Bernard S. Mayer. Pages: 334 Size: 917 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Jossey Bass Ltd
Published: 13 May, 2004
eISBN-13: 9780787974060

In this thought-provoking, passionately written book, Bernard Mayer an internationally acclaimed leader in the field dares practitioners to ask the hard questions about alternative dispute resolution.

  • What`s wrong with conflict resolution?
  • Why aren`t more individuals and organizations using conflict resolution when they have a problem?
  • Why doesn`t the public know more about it?
  • What are the limits of conflict resolution?
  • When does conflict resolution work and when does it not?

Offering a committed practitioner`s critique of the profession of mediation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution, Beyond Neutrality focuses on the current crisis in the field of conflict resolution and offers a pragmatic response.