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Conflict Resolution And Systemic Change, Susan Sturm, Howard Gadlin
Conflict Resolution And Systemic Change, Susan Sturm, Howard Gadlin
Journal of Dispute Resolution
This article suggests that the view of public norm elaboration and accountability underlying the critique of ADR is too narrow and needs to be rethought. Public norms do not consist only of the precedents developed and applied by courts or other adjudicative bodies. They also emerge when relevant institutional actors develop values or remedies through an accountable process of principled and participatory decision making, and then adapt these values and remedies to broader groups or situations. ADR can play a significant role in developing legitimate and effective solutions to common problems and, in the process, produce generalizable norms
Media, Memory, And Forgiveness: Case Studies In South Africa And Argentina's Conflict Resolution Processes, Byron T. Scott, Caroline Escudero, Anya Litvak
Media, Memory, And Forgiveness: Case Studies In South Africa And Argentina's Conflict Resolution Processes, Byron T. Scott, Caroline Escudero, Anya Litvak
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Studies of conflict frames' customarily include neither mid- to long-term resolution nor the role of the media in that healing process. In theory, the formal reconciliation processes that have followed internal conflicts in many nations provide resolution and a pathway to long-term healing. But do they? As the chief cultural guardians of national memories, what is the role of the media? Between the spikes of crisis reporting, are there persistent frames of journalistic messages that affect how ever-receding events are viewed by new generations? This paper looks at media behavior in two contrasting nations, Argentina and South Africa, while arguing …