Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in Middle Eastern Societies - Between Tradition and Modernity.
Overview
The historical and cultural richness of the Middle
Eastern societies and the role of the state in the countries of the region provide a
unique basis to understand the variety of means to address violent conflicts in
different societies with a common basis. Against this backdrop, the leading question
addressed in the contributions to this book concerns what is the best-suited response
to violent conflicts? The question implies that there exist alternative ways of
dealing with violent conflicts. And posing this question, there follow immediately
other questions: best in terms of what and best for whom: the offender, the victim,
the public or all of them?
The responses are related to basic concepts of punishment, retaliation and mediation
that have evidently been developed everywhere although content and meaning differ.
Within this context, the book provides an overview on structural factors, settings
and the phenomenology of violent conflicts in fourteen countries of the Middle East
and an insight into the variety of types of traditional and modern conflict
resolution applied largely in parallel in the region from different perspectives of
social, legal and political sciences.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9783428122202
- ISBN-10: 3428122208
- Publisher: Duncker & Humblot
- Publish Date: May 2006
- Shipping Weight: 18.09 pounds
- Page Count: 658
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