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Dealing with Differences
Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes
John Forester
240 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-538590-8
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Paperback
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10 September 2009
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- Includes case studies based on accounts of community activists and leaders, mediators and facilitators, educators and consultants
Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is a perennial challenge for activists, politicians, planners, and policymakers. John Forester is one of America's eminent scholars of progressive planning and dispute resolution in the policy arena, and in Dealing with Differences he focuses on a series of 'hard
cases'—conflicts that appeared to be insoluble yet which were resolved in the end. Forester ranges across the country—from Hawaii to Maryland to Washington State—and across issues—the environment, ethnic conflict, and HIV. Throughout, he focuses on how innovative mediators settled seemingly intractable disputes. Between pessimism masquerading as 'realism' and the unrealistic idealism that 'we can all get along,' Forester identifies the middle terrain where disputes do actually get resolved in ways that offer something for all sides. Dealing with Differences serves as an authoritative and fundamentally pragmatic pathway for anyone who has to engage in the highly contentious worlds of planning and policymaking.Readership:
Students of public policy, urban and regional planning, and business management
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John Forester, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
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Preface
Introduction: Discovery, Creativity and Change in the Face of Conflict
Part One: When Parties Conflict, Expect That More's Possible Than Anyone Says
1: Beyond Promises: Making Public Participation and Democractic Deliberation Work
2: Cultivating Surprise and the Art of the Possible: Dramas of Mediating Differences
Part Two: Respecting Value Differences and Acting Practically Together Too
3: Exploring Values-based Disputes
4: Dealing with Deep Value Differences in Participatory Proposing
Part Three: From Venting and Posturing to Learning and Proposing
5: In the Face of Deep Value Differences: Negotiating HIV/AIDS Priority-Setting
6: Planning, Mediation, Participation and Posturing: What's a Facilitative Leader Do?
Part Four: From Arguing to Inventing, From Presuming to Enabling Action
7: Making Public Participation in Governance Work: Distinguishing and Integrating Dialogue, Debate, and negotiation
8: Envisioning Possibilities: How Humor and Irony Enact Recognition, Build Power
9: Conclusion: Transforming Participatory Processes: Integrating and Transcending Dialogue, Debate, and Negotiation
Appendices
Endnotes
Bibliography
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