Mediation in the Asia-Pacific region: transforming conflicts and building peace/ edited by Dale Bagshaw and Elisabeth Porter. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2009. - xv, 224 p. ; 25 cm. - Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 75 .

Part I: Reconsidering Mediation, Peacebuilding and Culture

1. Challenging Western constructs of mediation - Dale Bagshaw
2. Peacebuilding: women peaceworkers - Elisabeth Porter and Danielle Every
3. Speaking across difference: Native Title mediation and peacebuilding in Australia - Toni Bauman


Part II: Building Peace in the Asia-Pacific Region: Pacific Islands

4. Mediation of public policy disputes in Fiji Islands - Graham Hassall
5. A few more arrows: strengthening mediative capacity in Vanuatu - Polly Walker and Chief Selwyn Garu
6. Creative peacebuilding: experiences from Bougainville - Alan Campbell


Part III: Building Peace in the Asia-Pacific Region: Asia

7. Mediation of marital disputes in Muslim families in Malaysia - Dale Bagshaw
8. Transforming conflict and building peace in Cambodia - Damien Coghlan
9. Transforming conflict in international projects in Vietnam - Wendy Poussard
10. Listening with the ear, eye and heart: conflict transformation in China - Diane Bretherton and Han Zhaoying
11. Mediating contemporary, severe multicultural and religious conflicts in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand - Bruce Barnes and Fatahillah Abdul Syukur

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780415489676 (cloth : alk. paper)


Peace-building--Asia.
Conflict management--Asia.
Peace-building--Pacific Area.
Conflict management--Pacific Area.


Asia--Politics and government
Pacific Area--Politics and government.

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