When To Talk And When To Fight

The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance

When To Talk And When To Fight
Rebecca Subar, Rosi Greenberg, Esteban Kelly
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Paperback
h228 x 152mm - 224pg
2 Sep 2021 US
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9781629638362
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Introduces a new language to enable negotiators and activists to argue and collaborate across different schools of thought and action. Weaving beautiful storytelling and clear analysis, this book maps the habits of change-makers, explaining why some groups choose dialogue and negotiation while others practice confrontation and resistance. Threaded among examples of conflict, struggle, and change in organisations, communities, and society is the compelling personal story that led Subar to her community of practice at Dragonfly, advising leaders in social justice organisations on organisational and advocacy strategy. With lucid charts and graphs by Rosi Greenberg, When to Talk and When to Fight is a brilliant new way of talking about how we change the world.
"Rebecca Subar' s rich personal background and distinguished career advising political negotiators, organization-builders, and movement strategists have positioned her as one of the world' s leading voices on conflict management. Here Subar combines profound insights from both practitioners and theoreticians, offering her readers invaluable paradigms on conflict transformation. When to Talk and When to Fight is the book many of us having been waiting for!" --Sa' ed Atshan, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies, Swarthmore College"This is an emotionally and intellectually engaging masterpiece about lovers and fighters. It makes clear that the defining connection between talking and fighting is that the fight for policy change and passionate dialogue must both exist to change a narrative of trauma and injustice. This is a must-read. " --Shawanna Vaughn, antiviolence and criminal justice activist with Silent Cry Inc. "When to Talk and When to Fight brilliantly bridges the worlds of bargaining-table negotiation and social movement power building. Rebecca Subar creates an original framework for understanding why the two approaches are often in tension with one another and how--when coordinated skillfully--they can be used together. A writer who is both a ' peacemaker and provocateur, ' Subar fills her book with illuminating stories and narrates with a wonderfully engaging personal voice, making the reading at once absorbing and enlightening. " --Mark Engler, coauthor of This Is an Uprising"Rebecca Subar' s book is a powerful and important exploration of the tensions between challenging unjust centers of power and negotiating our terms of victory. This book has forced me to ask tough questions about both the social justice strategies I am comfortable with--and the strategies I need to get more comfortable with to be the most effective human rights advocate possible. " --Sunjeev Bery, Executive Director, Freedom Forward"In When to Talk and When to Fight, Subar argues against black-and-white binaries and promotes the validity of different strategies depending on the mix of personal and community styles, principles and values, structural obstacles and biases, and the power dynamics between the opposing parties in a constantly churning and contradictory society. Subar' s style is engaging and challenging, a smart ' how-to' book that is grounded in a deep personal understanding of social struggle and political advocacy. " --Alice Rothchild, author of Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine
Rebecca Subar has taught peace and conflict studies at West Chester University since 2005. Rosi Greenberg is a graphic facilitator and leadership trainer. Esteban Kelly is the executive director for the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Douglas Stone has taught negotiation and conflict management at Harvard Law School since 1993.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781629638362
Published: 2 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: PM Press
Publisher: PM Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 224

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