The Neutrality Trap - Bernard S Mayer

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Praise for The Neutrality Trap

Jackie Font-Guzm?n and Bernie Mayer describe their journeys as intervenors and activists through truth telling and fiercely honest self-examination. This book challenges us to learn how to balance conflict and cooperation to achieve real, sustainable social change.
-Colin Rule, CEO, Mediate.com and Arbitrate.com

A valuable resource for any practitioner serious about disrupting structural racism.
-Cheryl L. Jamison, JD, Former Executive Director, Association for Conflict Resolution

Font-Guzm?n and Mayer guide us on how to avoid the neutrality trap, engage in meaningful dialogue, and prepare to endure conflict.
-Rafael Gely, JD, PhD, James E. Campbell Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law

An engaging, thought-provoking, and inspiring exploration of the ways we can use conflict resolution practices to engage enduring conflicts that require transformation rather than settlement.
-Jayne Seminare Docherty, Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at EMU

With wisdom and compassion, Font-Guzm?n and Mayer give us a framework for understanding today's polarization and a road map for moving forward. They model the honesty and vulnerability we all need to function in that intersection of conflict resolution and social justice reform.
-Lucy Moore, Author of Common Ground on Hostile Turf

The Neutrality Trap makes me very hopeful for the future, and I believe it will encourage more people to step up and take an active role in the fight for systemic change.
-Moya Mcalister, Board Director of the Black Women of Forward Action (Windsor, ON)

With remarkable frankness and humility, the authors reflect on their experiences to look at how often we stand behind the comfortable shield of neutrality, and in so doing, fail to deal with unjust systems that create and perpetuate harm.
-Susanne Terry, Editor and contributor, More Justice, More Peace: When Peacemakers are Advocates

Mayer and Font-Guzm?n take readers beyond easy prescriptions into difficult, necessary, and fruitful ways to engage and support structural social change. Read this book to change your mind. It can change your neighborhood. Read this book to change the world.
-Michelle LeBaron, Professor and dispute resolution scholar, Peter A. Allard School of Law, The University of British Columbia...

Biographie:

BERNARD MAYER, PhD, is an internationally recognized leader in the field of conflict intervention. He is Professor Emeritus of Conflict Studies at Creighton University and was a founding partner of CDR Associates, a pioneering conflict intervention and training firm. His previous books include Beyond Neutrality, Staying with Conflict, The Dynamics of Conflict, and The Conflict Paradox.

JACQUELINE N. FONT- GUZM?N is a Fulbright scholar with vast experience in conflict, healthcare, academia, and the legal system. Her work has been internationally recognized. She serves as the inaugural Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Eastern Mennonite University and Professor in their Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Her last solely authored book is Experiencing Puerto Rican Citizenship and Cultural Nationalism.

Sommaire:

Preface ix

I Engaging Conflict 1

1 Engaging and Disrupting for Social Change 3

2 The Neutrality Trap 27

3 Intersectionality and Social Change 51

4 Constructive Engagement 77

II Deepening Conflict 101

5 The Hope and Challenge of Enduring Conflict 103

6 Beyond Evil, Stupid, and Crazy: Systems of Privilege and Oppression 137

III Strategic Disruption 167

7 From Chaotic to Strategic Disruption 169

8 Allies, Teams, and Leaders 193

9 Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change: A Forward Look 213

References 233

Acknowledgments 247

About the Authors 250

Index 252