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Early work in conflict resolution and peace research focused on why wars broke out, why they persisted, and why peace agreements failed to endure. Later research has focused on what actions and circumstances have actually averted destructive escalations, stopped the perpetuation of destructive conduct, produced a relatively good conflict transformation, or resulted in an enduring and relatively equitable relationship among former adversaries. This later research, which began in the 1950s, recognizes that conflict is inevitable and is often waged in the name of rectifying injustice. Additionally, it argues that damages can be minimized and gains maximized for various stakeholders in waging and settling conflicts. This theory, which is known as the constructive conflict approach, looks at how conflicts can be waged and resolved so they are broadly beneficial rather than mutually destructive.
In this book, Louis Kriesberg, one of the major figures in the school of constructive conflict, looks at major foreign conflict episodes in which the United States has been involved since the onset of the Cold War to analyze when American involvement in foreign conflicts has been relatively effective and beneficial and when it has not. In doing so he analyzes whether the US took constructive approaches to conflict and whether the approach yielded better consequences than more traditional coercive approaches. Realizing Peace helps readers interested in engaging or learning about foreign policy to better understand what has happened in past American involvement in foreign conflicts, to think freshly about better alternatives, and to act in support of more constructive strategies in the future.
- Sales Rank: #5718065 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.30" h x 1.20" w x 9.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 414 pages
Review
"A brilliant rendering of wisdom, Realizing Peace offers a concrete and unusual gift we could summarize in two short phrases. Dream big about peace. Take practical steps to get there. Louis Kriesberg brings together decades of engaged scholarship in this seminal work to offer specific approaches, based on empirical research, for how constructive transformation of conflict can reduce and prevent violence across the globe and improve the quality of relationships." -- John Paul Lederach, author of The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
"In Realizing Peace Louis Kriesberg accomplishes what few peace researchers have dared. He applies peace theory, practice and findings directly to US foreign policy. His constructive conflict approach provides a realistic strategy for enhancing US security and global peace simultaneously. This book is essential reading for 21st century diplomats and citizens alike." -- George A. Lopez, Vice-President, United States Institute of Peace
"This book raises important questions about the US role in complex conflicts, the exercise of power in all its forms, and most importantly, the opportunities that exist to align the means we use more closely with the ends we seek to achieve. The book certainly will be valuable to students and practitioners of constructive conflict resolution. But, its real power will be in the hands of interested citizens who, in reading this, will ask more nuanced questions of ourselves and our elected leaders about what we are trying to achieve, what opportunities exist for constructive conflict resolution, and what choices we can make - as citizens and as a country - that best support those goals." -- Andrea Strimling Yodsampa, CEO of DEPLOY/US Climate Initiative and former Chair of the Board, Alliance for Peacebuilding
"This is an important volume by one of the giants in the field of conflict analysis. It deftly summarizes the author's pioneering work in the development of conceptual frameworks for understanding and mitigating armed conflict, providing a treasure trove of the most important sources in the field. Truly encyclopedic in scope." -- David Cortright, author of Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas
"Realizing Peace is an essential resource for peace and conflict studies, international relations and modern history. An invaluable learning tool for all teaching and working in the various fields of building knowledge and taking action for peace, it is a unique, hopeful and fundamentally practical work." -- Betty A. Reardon, Founding Director Emeritus, International Institute on Peace Education
"Kriesberg has produced a very important book. It is in many ways a litany of U.S interventions since WWII. He offers a compelling argument that if the U.S is going to intervene perhaps it should follow his approach more closely." --Thomas K. Duncan, Radford University
"Written in an accessible style despite its considerable erudition, this book should be required reading for diplomats, politicians, students, and all who care about building a better and less violent-prone future."--Patrick G. Coy, Professor and Director, Center for Applied Conflict Management, Kent State University
"Realizing Peace carefully navigates the line between American engagement abroad as it was and as it could have been. The book dares you to jump into the void of exploring what history could have looked like, and, more importantly, it reminds you that America always has a choice in how it chooses to engage the world."
--Foreign Policy in Focus
About the Author
Louis Kriesberg is Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Syracuse University.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Full of wisdom yet realistic and accessible
By Patrick G. Coy
Louis Kriesberg’s illustrious academic career includes the founding of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts at Syracuse University nearly 30 years ago. His prolific record also includes a spate of well-deserved awards, scores of cutting-edge journal articles, and a series of significant books.
Kriesberg is best known for his well-developed social conflicts analytical framework that distinguishes the complicated dynamics of constructive conflicts from those associated with more adversarial and destructive conflict approaches in his influential "Constructive Conflicts" book (now in its fourth edition). In this new book he patiently applies that same framework to the many international crises and conflicts of the United States over the past 70 years.
This is a tall and far-reaching enterprise—one likely beyond the reach of most scholars. But Kriesberg deftly traverses the decades and the literatures on foreign affairs, peace and conflict studies, international relations, sociology and diplomatic history that each address in their own way these various crises. In so doing he uncovers, assesses, and then evaluates the destructive and the constructive approaches taken by various US administrations and its conflict partners in specific situations.
One of the most compelling dimensions of "Realizing Peace" is that Kriesberg avoids the pitfalls of both broad generalizations and of moralism—two approaches that tend to travel together in what too often passes for analysis. Instead, the specific decisions taken in particular moments of a conflict’s trajectory are presented and evaluated contextually, and in relation to the constructive conflict approach. The emphasis is on the many opportunities and the decision-making moments present in a crisis more so than on its structural constraints.
Therein lies some of the great hope that is woven throughout this work of mature scholarship. Even in the most complicated, the most intractable and the most contentious of conflicts, we still have choices. Thus the focus here is on constructive opportunities recognized and chosen by U.S. decision makers and their conflict partners, as well as on the many missed opportunities and deleterious effects they brought about.
After presenting the constructive conflicts approach in the first chapter, each of the next six chapters focus on the conflicts and crises of a specific time period: the first two decades of the Cold War; the transformation of the Cold War in the 1970s and 80s; the direct aftermath of the Cold War; the Clinton years; the so-called war on terrorism and the Bush-Cheney administration; and the Obama administration. Equally important, this valuable volume closes with a significant chapter trained on the obstacles facing the increasing integration of the constructive approach to conflicts in US foreign policy, and ways to mitigate if not yet overcome those obstacles.
Written in an accessible style despite its considerable erudition, this book should be required reading for diplomats, politicians, students, and all who care about building a better and less violent-prone future.
–Patrick G. Coy, Professor and Director
Center for Applied Conflict Management
Kent State University, USA.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The recent great expansion of constructive conflict approaches raises many contested questions
By Sean Byrne
The recent great expansion of constructive conflict approaches raises many contested questions. This innovative and rare book illuminates several of these issues. The constructive conflict approach examines how conflicts can be constructively rather than destructively resolved transforming key relationships in the process. Professor Lou Kriesberg explores U.S. foreign policy post Cold War to analyze whether the constructive rather than coercive approach bore more fruit. Professor Kriesberg is a prolific scholar and Realizing Peace is a must read for policymakers, students, and academics, and will attract and engage a large audience. Sean Byrne, Director, Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba
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