Faculty Conflict Resolution Bookshelf

Note: Each issue of our Conflict Management in Higher Education Report includes some reviews of books and resources. See our table of contents to past resource reviews for quick access.

On this page we provide somewhat random selection of books on topics we think might interest faculty working in our field.

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From Our Bookshelf

Title: History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to Which the United States Has Been a Party, Reprint Edition

By: Moore, John B.
Date: 2001
Publisher: AMS Press
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0404122701
Obtain From: Major booksellers and libraries.

Title: Managing Interpersonal Conflict

By: Donohue, William A.
Date: 1992
This book aims to help readers better understand and ultimately manage their routine interpersonal conflicts. Specifically, the book walks readers through the conflict process--from the initial decision of whether or not to confront differences to how to plan the actual confrontation. Donohue deals extensively with the negotiation process and, if negotiation proves unsuccessful, with third-party dispute resolution. The book emphasizes keeping conflicts under control and keeping focused on the issues.
Publisher: Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
Pages: 184
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0803933126
Obtain From: Sage Publications, Inc.

Title: Mediation, Principles & Practice, 2nd Edition

By: Kovach, Kimberlee K.
Date: 1999
MEDIATION: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE combines the theory, law and practice of mediation into a book that is primarily intended for use in mediation skills based courses and for individuals that are beginning the practice of mediation.
Publisher: West Publishing Company
Pages: 397
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0314228659
Obtain From: Major booksellers and libraries.

Title: Mediation in the Campus Community: Designing and Managing Effective Programs

By: Warters, William C.
Date: 1999
This practical and comprehensive book offers administrators, faculty, student services professionals, and student groups step-by-step advice on mediation program development. The author draws on case examples and ideas from campuses across the country to illustrate strategies for developing creative and effective responses to conflict. Readers will find a ten-step guide for creating new programs, plus advice on staff training, program promotion, results evaluation, general conflict resolution skills training strategies and more. Sample forms, policy language, promotional materials, mission statements, assessment questions, and a case management script are among the many resources provided.
Publisher: San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers
Pages: 176
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 078794789X
Obtain From: Libraries and major booksellers.

Title: Peaceful Persuasion: A Guide to Creating Mediation Dispute Resolution Programs for College Campuses

By: Girard, Kathryn; Townley, Annette; Rifkin, Janet
Date: 1985
A guide to mediation program planning is presented for college campuses. The concept of a college mediation program is considered, along with issues of needs, benefits, program focus, and goals.
Publisher: Amherst, MA: The Mediation Project

Title: Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures

By: Lederach, John Paul
Date: 1996
In this book the author draws on his personal experiences, in order to explain the process and key elements in teaching conflict resolution.
Publisher: Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0815627254
Obtain From: Syracuse University Press

Title: Politics of Peace-Maintenance, The

By: Chopra, Jarat, ed.
Date: 1998
The results of more than fifty years of peacekeeping operations—ranging from diplomatic efforts to so-called peace enforcement (the use of military force)—have made it clear that a new international political capability is required to adequately manage internal conflicts. That capability, peace-maintenance, is introduced and explored in this work. The authors at once debate the legitimacy and effectiveness of peace-maintenance and clearly explain the dimensions and requirements of successful operations.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner
Pages: 148
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 1-55587-756-7(hardcover), 1-55587-757-5(paperback)
Obtain From: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Title: Building Partnerships: A Contemporary Approach to Conflict Management

By:
Date: 1999
This book embodies the win-win approach to conflict management within business situations, while emphasizing partnering and collaborative approaches.
Publisher: Primis
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0072400382
Obtain From: major booksellers

Title: Origins of Violence: Approaches to the Study of Conflict, The

By: Rapoport, Anatol
Date: 1989
Publisher: New York: Professors' World Peace Academy
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0943852471
Obtain From: Libraries and major booksellers

Title: Conflict in Personal Relationships

By: Cahn, Dudley
Date: 1994
This book is organized into two parts. The first focuses on conflict on different types of couple relationships -- homosexual, cross cultural, dating but violent, engaged, and married -- and group relationships -- student peers, parents and their young children, and adult children and their aging parents. The chapters not only review past research on conflict in some relationships, but also take a significant step forward in introducing a variety of other relationship types for future research on conflict. These chapters also offer evidence that conflict is experienced differently in different types of interpersonal relationships. The second part of this book describes basic underlying principles and programs for dealing with interpersonal conflicts. Chapters in this section discuss patterns of argument in everyday life, issues associated with competence in interpersonal conflict, and mediation as a form of intervention for resolution. -Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Publisher: Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates

Title: Art and Science of Negotiation, The, reprint edition

By: Raiffa, Howard
Date: 1985
This book provides a serious discussion of negotiation in which the author weaves together his expertise in theory and practice.
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 067404813X
Obtain From: Belknap Press or major booksellers

Title: Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies, The

By: Berger, Peter L., ed.
Date: 1999
This book asks two principal questions with regard to normative conflicts on a global scale: do such conflicts have common characteristics worldwide?; and which institutions polarize such conflicts and which can serve to mediate them? This work "examines both questions through findings gained from a study of normative conflicts in eleven societies located in different parts of the world and at different levels of economic development."
Publisher: Westview Press
Pages: 416
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0-8133-6719-0
Obtain From: Perseus Books Group

Title: Arbitration 1998, the Changing World of Dispute Resolution: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting National Academy of Arbitrators

By: Najita, Joyce
Date: 1999
This book contains the proceedings from the 51st Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators in 1998. Among the topics discussed at the meeting, law, arbitration, negotiation, and mediation were the primary focus.
Publisher: BNA Books
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 1570181748
Obtain From: major booksellers

Title: New Directions in Conflict Theory: Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation

By: Vayrynen, Raimo
Date: 1991
In developing the transformation perspective, this volume explores the validity of rational and subjective approaches to conflict resolution, considers the value of international law and organizations for addressing complex social phenomena, and outlines a structural approach to international conflicts.
Publisher: Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications Ltd.
Pages: 240
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0803984375
Obtain From: Sage Publications, Inc.

Title: Campus Life: In Search of Community

By: Boyer, Earnest
Date: 1990
In this book, Boyer offers six principles of community that when combined together lead to a successful and friendly learning environment. They include: a purposeful community, an open community, a just community, a disciplined community, a caring community, and a celebrative community.
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press