TY - BOOK AU - Porter, Elisabeth J AU - Bagshaw, Dale TI - Mediation in the Asia-Pacific region: transforming conflicts and building peace SN - 9780415489676 (cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 327.1720954 PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Peace-building KW - Asia KW - Conflict management KW - Pacific Area KW - Politics and government N1 - 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 ER -