Chapters 2-3 (in Resolving Community Conflicts and Problems: Public Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue)
Authors: Harold Saunders and Priya Parker Text found in: (Book) Resolving Community Conflicts and Problems: Public Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue Abstract Chapter 2: The Sustained Dialogue Model: Transforming Relationships, Designing Change https://doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231151689.003.0002 This chapter focuses on the sustained dialogue model. Sustained dialogue is a carefully designed and rigorously implemented process for transforming dysfunctional and conflicting relationships. […]
Successful Local Peacebuilding in Macedonia (in Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies)
Authors: Ann Kelleher and Kelly Ryan Access via JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23607918 ABSTRACT Local peacebuilding projects should receive systematic and sustained analysis given their number and importance in creating conditions for peace in post-conflict societies. This analysis of the Nansen Integrated School in Jegunovce, Macedonia brings to light causal factors and specific practices that can produce successful local […]
Relational Design (in Journal of Awareness Based Social Change)
Authors: Savannah Keith Gress, Victor Udoewa Full Text: https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/article/view/5193/5391 Abstract: Participatory design occurs when professional designers do design work with the community members who will use the design. Traditional (colonial) participatory design leaves the choice of methodology in the hands of the professional designer, the leader or facilitator, who often chooses extractivist methods and methodologies, […]
Sustained Dialogue for Ground Water and Energy Resources in Chile (in Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education)
Suzanne A. Pierce, Reed A. Malin, Eugenio Figueroa Full text: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2012.03129.x Abstract: Water conflict arises in interconnected ways. As demand increases in one region or industrial sector, the accompanying shifts in water resource management regimes have impacts at the local level and may carry international implications. Insecure water resources are often the root cause of resistance or […]
Dr. Harold Saunders’ Luna Digital Exhibition
Thanks to the Kettering Foundation and the Sustained Dialogue Institute, the Saunders Collection is now digitally available at George Mason University. This archive has inestimable value to the field of conflict and peace studies, and its digitization now enables the University Libraries to share the Saunders story with the global scholarly community. Harold H. Saunders Conflict […]