The Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing: A Hopeful, Practical Approach to Dialogue Contributor(s): Hooker, David Anderson (Author) |
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ISBN: 1680991663 ISBN-13: 9781680991666 Publisher: Good Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Peace |
Dewey: 307.14 |
LCCN: 2016016993 |
Series: Justice and Peacebuilding |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.35 lbs) 128 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Will prove valuable and timely to mediators, restorative justice practitioners, community organizers, as well as leaders of peacebuilding and change efforts. When conflicts become ingrained in communities, people lose hope. Dialogue is necessary but never sufficient, and often actions prove inadequate to produce substantial change. Even worse, chosen actions create more conflict because people have different lived experiences, priorities, and approaches to transformation. So what's the story? In The Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing, David Anderson Hooker offers a hopeful, accessible approach to dialogue that:
Hooker presents an important, stand-alone process, an excellent addition to the study and practice of strategic peacebuilding, restorative justice, conflict transformation, trauma healing, and community organizing. This book recognizes the complexity of conflict, choosing long-term solutions over inadequate quick fixes. The Transformative Community Conferencing model emerges from the author's thirty years of practice in contexts as diverse as South Sudan; Mississippi; Greensboro, North Carolina; Oakland, California; and Nassau, Bahamas. |