Mediation in the Asia-Pacific region :  transforming conflicts and building peace / 
Edited by Dale Bagshaw and Elisabeth Porter 
 - London :  Routledge,  c2009. 
 - 224 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ;  75 .
<br/><br/> Cover page page: Middle eastern belongings edited by Diane E. King (wrong cover page). 
<br/><br/>Transforming conflicts and building peace through mediation / Elisabeth Porter and Dale Bagshaw --  Challenging Western constructs of mediation / Dale Bagshaw --  Peacebuilding : women peaceworkers / Elisabeth Porter and Danielle Every --  Speaking across difference : native title mediation and peacebuilding in Australia / Toni Bauman --  Mediation of public policy disputes in the Fiji Islands / Graham Hassall --  'A few more arrows' : strengthening mediative capacity in Vanuatu / Polly Walker and Chief Selwyn Garu --  Creative peacebuilding : experience from Bougainville / Alan Campbell --  Mediation of marital disputes in Muslim families in Malaysia / Dale Bagshaw --  Transforming conflict and building peace in Cambodia / Damien Coghlan --  Transforming conflict in international projects in Vietnam / Wendy Poussard --  Listening with the ear, eye and heart : conflict transformation in China / Diane Bretherton and Han Zhaoying --  Mediating contemporary, severe multicultural and religious conflicts in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand / Bruce E. Barnes and Fatahillah Abdul Syukur. 
<br/><br/> This book examines mediation in connection with peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific region, providing practical examples which either highlight the weaknesses within certain mediation approaches or demonstrate best-practice. The authors explore the extent to which current ideas and practices of mediation in the Asia-Pacific region are dominated by Western understandings and critically challenge the appropriateness of such thinking. Featuring a range of case studies on Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, this book has three main aims: To challenge dominant Western practices and ways of thinking on mediation that currently are being imposed in the Asia-Pacific region; To develop culturally-fluent and socially just mediation alternatives that build upon local, traditional or religious approaches; To situate mediation within ideas and practices on peacebuilding. Making a unique contribution to peace and conflict studies literature by explicitly linking mediation and peacebuilding practices, this book is a vital text for students and scholars in these fields. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415489676 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Peace-building--Asia<br/>Conflict management--Asia<br/>Mediation--Asia<br/>Peace-building--Pacific Area<br/>Conflict management--Pacific Area<br/>Pacific Area--Politics and government
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.172095 ME DI