Transformative Conflict Resolution: Mediation, Dialogue, Coaching, Management

Transformative Conflict Resolution is a volume that gathers leading scholarship and practice guidance from the transformative field, presenting a coherent picture of conflict as interaction that can shift through empowerment and recognition. Originating in work around the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation (ISCT), the book combines foundational reflections, empirical studies based on transcripts, and practice frameworks that translate core premises into day-to-day choices of interveners.

What’s in this book:

Coverage includes the following:

ISCT origins and evolution: history, identity, and community of practice
Philosophical analyses of recognition and dialogue within a relational worldview
Self-determination and “transformative premises 2.0” as drivers of practice
Enhanced reflection; functional analysis of summaries; a typology of check-ins
Applications beyond mediation: Transformative Conflict Coaching; Transformative Dialogue; Transformative Management in Organizations
Ethics of transformative practice: role clarity, dilemmas, and navigating directive impulses.
How this will help you:

Bridging theory and application, contributors deepen key techniques (reflection, summarizing, check-ins), extend the original mediation approach to coaching, dialogue, and organizational leadership, and articulate the ethical grounding and role conception that anchor non-directive practice. The result is a multi-genre resource for mediators, facilitators, coaches, managers, and educators seeking disciplined, values-based ways of supporting people in conflict.