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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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Title: Preventing Workplace Violence: A Guide for Employers and Practitioners

By: Braverman, Mark
Date: 1999
Scholarly work on managing and preventing workplace violence.
Publisher: Sage Publications
ISBN/ISSN: 761906150

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: 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: Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict

By: Bondurant, Joan V.
Date: 1965
This book introduces the reader to the political thought and activity of Mahatma Gandhi.
Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press

Title: On-Going Training Activities for Student Mediators

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Date: 1990
Publisher:

Title: Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice: Integration and Application

By: van der Merwe, Hugo, ed.; Sandole, Dennis J. D., ed.
Date: 1993
This collection of diverse essays provides a broad overview of the field of conflict resolution.
Publisher: New York: Manchester University Press
ISBN/ISSN: 719037476
Obtain From: Major Booksellers, Libraries

Title: Quest for Peace: Transcending Collective Violence and War among Societies, Cultures and States

By: Vayrynen, Raimo
Date: 1987
Ranging from individual and social movements to ecosystems and social cosmologies, this work "brings together an unusual variety of perspectives and offers us an exciting view of the quest for peace."
Publisher: Thousand Oaks: Sage Ltd.
Pages: 368
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0803980353
Obtain From: Sage Publications, Inc.

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: Conflict Components: Power in Interpersonal Conflict

By: Hocker, Joyce L.; Wilmot, William W.
Date: 1978
Publisher: Dubuque, IA: WM.C. Brown Publishers

Title: Complexities of Higher Education Administration

By: Higgerson, Mary Lou; Rehwaldt, Susan S.
Date: 1993
Based on extensive experience in administration, in teaching, and in running workshops for administrators, the authors have assembled a collection of cases focused on topics common to academic administrators. (Anker Publishing)
Publisher: Bolton, MA: Anker

Title: Beyond the Rangeland Conflict: Toward a West that Works

By: Dagget, Dan
Date: 2000
Written by an environmentalist, this book is about the radical idea that people can be more effective at getting what they want by working together than they can be by fighting each other. The book uses ten examples of environmentalists and ranchers working together including open space disputes, endangered species, collaborative team-building, and the power of a shared vision.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Pages: 112
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0966622901
Obtain From: major booksellers

Title: Mediation in the Academy: A Workbook for Student Affairs Administrators

By: Kegelman, T.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Amherst, MA: The Mediation Project
Obtain From: Mediation Project

Title: Game Theory as a Theory of Conflict Resolution

By: Rapoport, Anatol
Date: 1974
Publisher: Boston: D. Reidel Publishing
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 9027704244
Obtain From: Major booksellers or libraries

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: Inter-Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution in Nigeria

By: Uwazie, Ernest M., ed.; et al.
Date: 1999
This book examines the role of conflict resolution in the ethnic/religious conflicts of Nigeria. The discussion of the book includes the sociocultural politics, the role of Nigerian women and youth, indigenous organizations, and the concept of eventual resolution.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Pages: 192
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN: 0739100335
Obtain From: major booksellers