LEADER 08878oam 2200601 c 450 001 9910961621403321 005 20251202090341.0 010 $a9783838270579 010 $a3838270576 024 3 $a9783838270579 035 $a(CKB)4340000000252645 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5782693 035 $a(OCoLC)1111968152 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5782693 035 $a(Perlego)773146 035 $a(ibidem)9783838270579 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000252645 100 $a20251202d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConflict Resolution Beyond the International Relations Paradigm $eEvolving Design as Transformative Practice in Nagorno-Karabakh and Syria /$fPhilip Gamaghelyan, Andreas Umland, Susan Allen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (293 pages) 225 0 $aSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 311 08$a9783838210575 311 08$a3838210573 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Table of Contents -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Questions I am aiming to address -- The organization of the text -- Part I -- Chapter 1 Critical review of conflict resolution theories -- Binary frames in conflict resolution -- Realist theories of international relations -- Liberal theories of international relations -- In the shadow of Track 1: interactive problem solving -- Alternative to binary frames in conflict resolution -- Multitrack models of conflict resolution -- Network theory -- The third side -- Constructivist trends in conflict analysis -- Reflective and elicitive practice -- Theories of ethnicity and nationalism -- Critical theory -- Structuration theory: segue into participatory research design -- Chapter 2 Methodology -- Participatory action research -- Case selection -- Auto-ethnography -- First-person action research and collective auto-ethnography -- Second-person action research -- Ethical considerations and limitations -- Chapter 3 Auto-ethnographic sketch -- My background, the resulting perspective and subjectivity, and their role in this research -- Part II -- Chapter 4 On ethical and methodological challenges of leading a Syrian dialogue program in the middle of a civil war: from exclusion to inclusion -- The program design and implementation -- Program design vs. program reality -- Intermission -- Back to dialogue -- Methodological agony -- Reframing -- Getting real -- Closure -- Implications of the Syrian dialogue for this research: toward inclusive frames that do not privilege the violent extremes -- Chapter 5 On methodological challenges of leading an analytic initiative in the context of the long-lasting Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: from inclusion to exclusion -- The Nagorno-Karabakh Analytic Initiative -- The first meeting -- The first full symposium. 327 $aThe second full symposium -- Working group -- Implications of the Nagorno-Karabakh Analytic Initiative for recognizing power dynamics and resulting exclusion, and marginalization -- Part II postscript -- Part III -- Chapter 6 Influence of macro-frames on conflict resolution practice. Addressing exclusion perpetuated by binary conflict discourses of international relations -- In the shadow of the international relations discourse -- Practical implications of naming initiatives "Track 2": impact on selection -- Practical implications of naming initiatives "Track 2": impact on dialogue -- Leaving the shadow: addressing patterns of marginalization influenced by the international relations discourse -- Conceptual alternatives -- Evolving Designs: rethinking the language of mediation -- Evolving Designs: rethinking dialogue and PSW -- Evolving Designs in practice: transforming the Analytic Initiative -- Chapter 6 postscript: gender and other binaries that affect conflict resolution practice -- Chapter conclusions -- Chapter 7 Marginalization specific to conflict resolution initiatives. Addressing the formation of dominant factions -- Formation of a single dominant faction within initiatives -- Cultural intelligibility to the organizers -- Reliance on a dominant discourse external to the initiative -- Competition for domination and shifting marginalization -- Recognizing and addressing domination and resulting marginalization -- Chapter conclusions -- Chapter 8 Addressing marginalization patterns within the conflict resolution community -- Competition among organizations -- Walking the talk: the case for the organizations preaching cooperation to lead by example -- Power struggles within teams -- Addressing marginalization within teams -- Chapter conclusions -- Chapter 9 Lessons learned -- Reflection: the learning and the key findings. 327 $aAction: Evolving Designs in Imagine Center's recent initiatives -- Questions for further research -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aConflict Resolution holds the promise of freeing approaches and policies with regard to politics of identity from the fatalistic grip of realism. While the conceptual literature on identity and conflicts has moved in this alternative direction, conflict resolution practice continues to rely on realist frames and acts as an unwanted auxiliary to traditional International Relations (IR). Perpetuation of conflict discourses, marginalization, and exclusion of affected populations are widespread. They are caused by the over-reliance of conflict resolution practice on the binary frames of classic IR paradigms and also by the competitive and hierarchical relationships within the field itself. Philip Gamaghelyan relies on participatory action research (PAR) and collective auto-ethnography to expose patterns of exclusion and marginalization as well as the paradoxical reproduction of conflict-promoting frames in current conflict-resolution practice applied to the Nagorno-Karabakh and Syrian crises. He builds on the work of post-modernist scholars, on reflective practice, and on discourse analysis to explore alternative and inclusive strategies with a transformative potential through reflections and actions customary for PAR. The IR discipline, that has dominated policy-making, is only one possible lens, and often a deficient one, for defining, preventing, or resolving contemporary conflicts wrapped in identity politics. Other conceptual frameworks can help to rethink our understanding of identity and conflicts and reconstruct them as performative and not static phenomena. These transformative frameworks are increasingly influential in the conflict resolution field and can be applied to policy-making. 330 1 $aPhilip Gamaghelyan is an experienced scholar-practitioner whose authentic quest to transform international conflicts has resulted in discoveries that ought to occasion a fundamental paradigm shift in the field of conflict resolution. Gamaghelyan exposes and thoroughly documents how the field of international conflict resolution unwittingly perpetuates and reifies conflicts, rather than transforming them, as a consequence of the near-universal conceptual and/or practical assumption of conflict 'sides'. The very presumption that conflicts are characterized by 'sides' generates and maintains polarized and rigid oppositions while marginalizing any voices and constituencies that do not fit this oppositional framing. The author then documents how standard practices of international conflict resolution unintentionally create counter-productive marginalization across a range of additional dimensions, as well as how an emerging 'business' of conflict resolution profits from the maintenance of conflict. Through the sensitively and humbly narrated story of his own individual and collective learning through real-life cases of international conflict transformation processes, Gamaghelyan also provides insights and guidance for stepping into a new paradigm of international conflict transformation that, when authentically and self-critically engaged, creates new capabilities for genuinely resolving entrenched conflict. Dr. Jessica Srikantia, Rhodes Scholar and an Associate Professor at George Mason University?s Schar School of Policy and Government. 606 $aSyria 606 $aconflict 606 $aresolution 615 4$aSyria 615 4$aconflict 615 4$aresolution 676 $a327.17 700 $aGamaghelyan$b Philip$4aut$01702944 702 $aUmland$b Andreas$cDr.$4edt 702 $aAllen$b Susan$4aui 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961621403321 996 $aConflict resolution beyond the international relations paradigm$94087834 997 $aUNINA