Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution

by Cloke

Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of the mediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change. Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical and traditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places of dispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamental change is the desired result. It means opening wounds and looking beneath the surface, challenging comfortable assumptions, and exploring dangerous issues such as dishonesty, denial, apathy, domestic violence, grief, war, and slavery in order to reach a deeper level of transformational change. Mediating Dangerously shows conflict resolution professionals how to advance beyond the traditional steps, procedures, and techniques of mediation to unveil its invisible heart and soul and to reveal the subtle and sensitive engine that drives the process of personal and organizational transformation. This book is a major new contribution to the literature of conflict resolution that will inspire and educate professionals in the field for years to come.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

272 pages, ebook

First published March 6, 2001

Reviews

[Reflection · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mediating Dangerously makes me salivate with anticipation of just how exceptionally clever the ideas are for building peace at a substantial level.

If some mediators are content to provide a standard service to help clients to achieve solutions, this book shows a finesse that can reach to the heart of particularly challenging conflict scenarios and create something magical and sustainable. This is like a jazz impresario at his finest, whilst others hammer out notes this delves into the craft.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had been sitting on my night stand for probably 18 months. The second part of the book was not as helpful as the first and I just ended up skimming through it to the end. The first part was really good and I had started it before the author presented at the annual symposium in 2017. Such good information.

[Aaron Leakey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ahead of its time. Still just as relevent over 20 years later.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

This would have gotten a better rating, but he really lost me with the spirituality stuff. I don't agree with it at all and I feel it was too embedded into the rest of the material.

[Lisa Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book on mediation.