Alternative Dispute Resolution category: 74 books
by Cathy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
As a workplace consultant, the author has probably advised thousands of men and women on how to handle workplace discrimination issues both in private industry and government. However, latest statistics shows that it is women, single parents and heads of households –who are the latest victims of...
The Little Book of Dialogue for Difficult Subjects
A Practical, Hands-On Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The word "dialogue" suffers from over-use, yet its practice is as transforming and as freshly hopeful as ever. Authors Schirch and Campt demonstrate dialogue's life and possibilities in this clear and absorbing manual: "Dialogue allows people in conflict to listen to each other, affirm their common...
Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding
A Vision And Framework For Peace With Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
So we'd all like a more peaceful world-no wars, no poverty, no more racism, no community disputes, no office tensions, no marital skirmishes. Lisa Schirch sets forth paths to such realities. In fact, she points a way to more than the absence of conflict. She foresees justpeace-a sustainable state...
Friend v. Friend
The Transformation of Friendship--and What the Law Has to Do with It
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Friendship is one of our most important social institutions. It is the not only the salve for personal loneliness and isolation; it is the glue that binds society together. Yet for a host of reasons--longer hours at work, the Internet, suburban sprawl--many have argued that friendship is on the decline...
Little Book of Circle Processes
A New/Old Approach To Peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Our ancestors gathered around a fire in a circle, families gather around their kitchen tables in circles, and now we are gathering in circles as communities to solve problems. The practice draws on the ancient Native American tradition of a talking piece. Peacemaking Circles are used in neighborhoods...
Aung San Suu Kyi
Leading the Burmese democracy movement...
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma
Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize
Sakharov Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
Jawaharlal Nehru Award
International Simón Bolívar Prize
Wallenberg Medal
Aung San
Yangon
Tatmadaw
British Empire...
The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools
Teaching Responsibility; Creating Caring Climates
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Can community-building begin in a classroom? The authors of this book believe that by applying restorative justice at school, we can build a healthier and more just society. With practical applications and models.
Can an overworked teacher possibly turn an unruly incident with students into...
Little Book of Trauma Healing
When Violence Striked And Community Security Is Threatened
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Following the staggering events of September 11, 2001, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University was asked to help, along with Church World Service, to equip religious and civil leaders for dealing with traumatized communities. The staff and faculty proposed Strategies...
The Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing
A Hopeful, Practical Approach to Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
When conflicts become ingrained in communities, people lose hope. Dialogue is necessary but never sufficient, and often actions prove inadequate to produce substantial change. Even worse, chosen actions create more conflict because people have different lived experiences, priorities, and approaches...
by Cathy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Discrimination is what we will call it for the sake of argument in this book. Discrimination and all its forms affects the individuals’ mental health, physical health, and retaliatory acts are declared reprehensible by so many employers yet many of these same employers do not take the necessary...
The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Sexual Abuse
Hope through Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Restorative justice is gaining acceptance for addressing harm and crime. Interventions have been developed for a wide range of wrongdoing. This book considers the use of restorative justice in response to sexual abuse. Rather than a blueprint or detailing a specific set of programs, it is more about...
The Little Book of Restorative Justice
Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice. Here he proposes workable principles and practices for making Restorative Justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his bestselling, seminal book...
The Little Book of Restorative Justice for People in Prison
Rebuilding the Web of Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
An Insightful Book from the Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series, Which Has Sold Over 170,000 Copies
The more than 2.3 million incarcerated individuals in the United States are often regarded as a throw-away population. While the criminal-justice system focuses on giving offenders...
by Tamler Sommers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality
To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to...