Conflict Without Chaos: A Look Back at Conflict Intervention Initiatives During the Nation's Early C

Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-57275-765-5 Price:$27.95 Title: Conflict Without Chaos Sub-title: A Look Back at Conflict Intervention Initiatives During the Nation's Early Civil Rights Era Author(s): Bob Greenwald Publish Date: April 2008 Pages: 256 Format: Paper

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This book is a valuable resource for anyone involved as an intermediary or as a party to interpersonal or group conflict. It offers a unique perspective based on some two decades of field experience intervening in adversarial confrontation. It is a worthy text or reference source for students, researchers, and higher education faculty engaged in the study of alternative disput resolution processes, communication methodology, or initiatives in peacemaking/reconciliation. Beyond academic applications, this work has critical relevance to administrators and senior staff working for agencies and institutions dealing with community dispute settlement, local government operations, corrections, law enforcement, and education, among other groupings responsible for maintaining stable relationships among constituents, clients, or other segments they serve. The author spent a long career as a conciliator and mediator with the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justice. He was the first in the conflict resolution program under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to introduce mediation to the federal courts as an alternative to litigation involving prison inmates and their keepers. Contents: INTRODUCTION. More Questions Than Answers. Don’t Tell it to the Judge. Talk Is Cheap. Fundamental Underlying Assumptions A CONFLICT PERSPECTIVE. Our Heritage of Malevolence. Get Thee Between. The Perception Predicament. A Wave of Conflict Remedies. The Emergence of Community-Based Dispute Settlement Programs. Other Players Join the Parade. Another Complainant Intervenor. Nonstructured Options for Dispute Settlement. Convention Dies Hard. THE SHAPE OF MEDIATION: A FEDERAL MODEL. Mere Semantics. The Scenario. Maxims of Mediation. Terms Defined. Illustrated CRS Field Activity—Conciliation. Illustrated CRS Field Activity—Mediation. The Mediator in a Neutral Role. Use of Outside Resources. MEDIATION GUIDELINES: BEFORE COMING TO THE TABLE. Contact with the Parties. Initial Consultation. The Role of Negotiator. The Negotiating Teams. Premediation Team Preparation. Advocate Intervener—A Legitimate Neutral Role Site Selection, Timing, and Physical Arrangements. Media Relations. MEDIATION GUIDELINES: JOINT NEGOTIATIONS AND RESOLUTION TOOLS. Joint Session Format Variations. Other Joint Session Considerations. Caucus and Recess. Use of Nonparticipating Observers. The Agreement—Preparation and Enforcement. Postmediation Follow-up. Summary of Key Essentials. PRISON MEDIATION: LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY AT ANGOLA. A Bold Experiment. An Alternative to Litigation in Prison Problem Solving. Premediation Arrangements—Federal Court Initiatives. On-Site Exposure to Conditions of Incarceration. Inmate Orientation Behind the Walls. Final Preparations Before Going to Joint Sessions. Face-to-Face Negotiations—The First Joint Session. Second Joint Session. The Third Round. The Final Chapter—An Accommodation Behind Prison Walls. JEFFERSON PARISH JAIL, LOUISIANA AND SELECTED PRISON CASES. Another Perspective. A Mixed Retrospective. A Second Opinion from Louisiana: Champion of Court-Referred. Mediation: The Jefferson Parish Jail Case. The Georgia State Penitentiary at Reidsville, Team Orientation. At the Table Prelude. Core Agenda Issues. SCHOOL DEGREGATION: LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. Shades of an Historic Past—Equal Educational Chaos. An Atypical Scenario. Corners of Contention Among Educational Hierarchies. A “Draconian Solution”. POLICE ABUSE ALLEGATIONS: PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS. All-America City. Beyond Violence—To the Table. Second Joint Session. The Third Round. On to the Next Issue. The Final Rounds. Measuring Success. POLICE-MINORITY RELATIONS: FROM HOSTILE CONFRONTATION TO MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE—THE STATE OF TEXAS. Turmoil in Texas and the Nation. A Time for Innovation. Two Perspectives—One Resolve. STUDENT BOYCOTT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS. A Rio Grande Valley Cultural Cauldron. Enter Multiple Third-Party Intervenors. Leveling the Playing Field. By The Seat of Our Pants. The Bottom Line. A DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER FOR DALLAS, TEXAS. Without Recourse to Compulsion. The Rise of Community Mediation in Texas. From Infancy to Maturity—ADR in Dallas and the Nation. THE NEUTRAL INTERMEDIARY AS FACT-FINDER. The Nature of the Inquiry. Process Nuts and Bolts. The Search for Information. Impediments to Success. Fact-finding Scenarios. Developing Trends Across the Land. Character Distinctions of Intermediaries. In Conclusion. A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE CLIMATE OF RACE RELATIONS IN DALLAS, TEXAS. During the Birth of the Civil Rights Era. The Rest of the Story. Addenda. References. Index.