Culture and international conflict resolution
A critical analysis of the work of John Burton
By Tarja Vayrynen
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8140-8
- Pages: 172
- Price: £17.99
- Published Date: December 2009
- Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis
Description
This book re-examines conflict resolution - and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution - from a new perspective. The book is a critical study of John Burton's work, and outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict. It provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle.
Väyrynen argues that culture has a constitutive role in international conflict and conflict resolution. Culture offers a grammar for acting in and interpreting the world, and provides understandings of conflict and its resolution. Theories which deny the importance of cultural failure to understand the ontological conditions of human 'being'.
Contents
Introduction: the problematique of culture in international conflict analysis
1. Peaceful third-party interventions and Burtonian problem-solving conflict resolution
2. Burton's human needs theory and the denial of culture in conflict resolution
3. The rationale of Burton's totalist theory
4. Cultural dimensions of the social world
5. Phenomenological interpretation of problem-solving workshop conflict resolution: limitations and possibilities
Conclusion: ten theses on culture and international conflict resolution
Author
Tarja Väyrynen is Research Director at Tampere Peace Research Institute in Finland
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