When Conflict Resolution Fails – An Alternative to Negotiation and Dialogue

When Conflict Resolution FailsAn Alternative to Negotiation and Dialogue: Engaging Radical Disagreement in Intractable Conflicts\nAuthor(s): Oliver Ramsbotham\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745687988, 978-0745687988\nSynopsis\nBringing warring parties to the negotiating table is the aim of any peace process. But what happens when those negotiations falter and conflict resolution fails? Is everything lost or are there prospects for meaningful change in even the most intractable of conflicts?\n\nIn this insightful book, leading scholar-practitioner in conflict resolution Oliver Ramsbotham explores the phenomenon of radical disagreement as the main impediment to negotiation, problem solving and dialogue between conflict parties. Taking as his focus the long-running and seemingly irresolvable conflict between Israel and Palestine, he shows how what is needed in these circumstances is not less radical disagreeme.