Beyond Equity and Inclusion in Conflict Resolution: Recentering the Profession (Volume 3) (The ACR Practitioner’s Guide Series, 3)

Review
This timely and compelling book offers a valuable approach for addressing issues of systemic racism and oppression in the field of conflict resolution. The ideas are highly original and shed light on an important topic that is largely unacknowledged and certainly unaddressed.
-- Tina Nabatchi, Director, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, Syracuse University
Centering the personal and the lived experiences of BIPoC people (and starting with the authors as both subjects and agents themselves) as well as recognizing the 'gate keeper' and 'legitimizing' nature of white-dominated academics and academic institutions, and the positionality of this text in relation to that, is refreshing. The approach used by the authors provides a starting point for (re)entering into the discourse on conflict transformation by way of raising up a different epistemology that continues to be suppressed, underrepresented, and devalued to the detriment of the field.
-- Manuel Padilla, Collaborative governance facilitator, Portland State University
Extraordinarily thoughtful, timely, and necessary…. This is a book that all of us need to read, to learn from, to discuss, and offer gratitude for having our eyes opened. -- Franklin Dukes, Distinguished Institute Fellow, Institute for Engagement and Negotiation, University of Virginia
Penetrating and essential reading about inequalities in the field, offering deep insightsfor manifesting a more equitable future. This book is an invaluable call to action to make a necessary paradigm shift in conflict transformation work. It belongs in every course and training syllabus and to be actively engaged with to alter our institutions and practices.
-- Leah Wing, Faculty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
This important book is for anyone interested in resolving conflict more equitably, and that is virtually everyone these days. It's a great resource for leaders, including HR professionals and others. It tackles a vital question: how to eliminate racism, cultural dominance, and institutional oppression in conflict resolution, and that includes restorative justice, strategic peacebuilding, human security, conflict transformation, and more. The editors and writers represent uniquely diverse backgrounds and experiences, and write in forms as diverse as transcribed interviews, prose essays, poetry, and personal reflection. The result is unusual, delightful, and impactful. -- John Bourdeau, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist, University of Southern California
Beyond Equity and Inclusion in Conflict Resolution is a much-needed compendium. You will likely feel validated by some essays and challenged by others; either way, this provocative collection will make you think. It's an important addition to the theory and practice of mediation.
-- Douglas Stone, co-author, Difficult Conversations and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, Co-author of Difficult Conversations and Thanks for the Feedback
Beyond Equity and Inclusion in Conflict Resolution: Recentering the Profession examines the many ways racism manifests in a professional field. Useful for any field that recruits adherents and standardizes practices, this volume addresses how individuals, organizations, and institutions are shaped by and give shape to racially based exclusion. With contributions by 46 contributors, most of whom are people of color, this book offers a unique opportunity for readers to reach beyond assumptions, biases, and other limitations to change-bringing awareness.