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The Anatomy of Peace, Fifth Edition: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

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The international bestseller on conflict resolution has been updated with a powerful new discussion guide for creating lasting change in organizations, relationships, and communities.

New from the Arbinger Institute, the authors of the bestselling Leadership and Self-Deception, comes an updated edition of its transformative work on conflict resolution.

What if the conflicts in our lives-from personal disagreements to workplace tensions to global divisions-all stem from the same root cause? The Anatomy of Peace shows how our biases and behaviors perpetuate cycles of conflict and, more importantly, how we can break free from these patterns to create lasting peace and meaningful change.

This book unfolds as a story. Yusuf al-Falah, an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each lost his father at the hands of the other's ethnic cousins. The Anatomy of Peace is the story of how they came together, how they help warring parents and children come together, and how we too can find our way out of the personal, professional, and global conflicts that weigh us down, even when war is upon us.

This new edition includes a new preface and an extensive discussion guide that helps readers apply these principles in practical ways, making it an invaluable resource for organizations, teams, and individuals seeking to transform conflict into cooperation.

288 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 5, 2025

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October 27, 2025
Read this for my career are its journey is to have you switch perspective and use different lenses as you communicate with people who don't agree with your opinion or are completely obsolete.

This one is dense, slow moving, but the audiobook was good as the narrators change to match the literary setting. Good read.
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October 22, 2025
Having a heart at peace is the answer to all our problems I believe 🤍🤍
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December 8, 2025
This is the second time I’ve read this. I think it’s something everyone should read. I feel like I should read it at least once a year!
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