Mediation in the Asia-Pacific region : transforming conflicts and building peace / / edited by Dale Bagshaw and Elisabeth Porter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824270603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009
• ISBN: 1-134-00998-4; 1-282-25643-2; 9786612256431; 0-203-87669-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Collana: Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; ; 75
• Altri autori (Persone): BagshawDale; PorterElisabeth J
• Disciplina: 327.1/72095
• Soggetti: Peace-building - Asia; Conflict management - Asia; Mediation - Asia; Peace-building - Pacific Area; Conflict management - Pacific Area; Mediation - Pacific Area; Asia Politics and government 1945-; Pacific Area Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Abbreviations; Transforming conflicts and building peace through mediation; Part I Reconsidering mediation, peacebuilding and culture; 1 Challenging Western constructs of mediation; 2 Peacebuilding: Women peaceworkers; 3 Speaking across difference: Native title mediation and peacebuilding in Australia; Part II Building peace in the Asia-Pacific region: Pacific Islands; 4 Mediation of public policy disputes in the Fiji Islands; 5 'A few more arrows': Strengthening mediative capacity in Vanuatu; 6 Creative peacebuilding: Experiences from BougainvillePart III Building peace in the Asia-Pacific region: Asia; 7 Mediation of marital disputes ; in Muslim families in Malaysia; 8 Transforming conflict and building peace in Cambodia; 9 Transforming conflict in international projects in Vietnam; 10 Listening with the ear, eye and heart: Conflict transformation in China; 11 Mediating contemporary, severe multicultural and religious conflicts in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines mediation in connection with peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific region, providing practical examples which either highlight the weaknesses within certain mediation approaches or demonstrate best-practice.The authors explore the extent to which current ideas and practices of mediation in the Asia-Pacific region are dominated by Western understandings and critically challenge the appropriateness of such thinking. Featuring a range of case studies on Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, this book