"Editor’s Reflections: Peacemaking among Helping Parties" by Honggang Yang

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Editor’s Reflections: Peacemaking among Helping Parties

Peace and Conflict Studies

Honggang Yang, Nova Southeastern University

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I would like to take this opportunity to initiate a dialogue over some issues of conflict management among ourselves as third parties or helping professionals. The challenges of managing interpersonal conflicts or performing internal peacemaking are as real and relevant as the challenges of our professional undertaking in handling “outside” disputes. While recognizing there are no ready formulae to address these challenges, I invite you to join in the open-minded dialogues to examine expectations and premises often assumed among helping professionals in the fields.

Author Bio(s)

Honggang Yang is the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) at NSU. He is an anthropologist by training, and worked for The Carter Presidential Center of Emory University. He taught and chaired in the Antioch program in conflict resolution. He has served on several leadership councils and boards, and is currently on the editorial boards for Conflict Resolution Quarterly, and American Review of China Studies. In 1998-1999, he launched the distance learning programs in conflict resolution at the SHSS with the support of his colleagues and students. His specialties include reflective practice, distance and experiential learning, and ethnographic methods.

Keywords

conflict management,
conflict resolution,
helping professionals,
peacemaking,
third parties

Disciplines

Peace and Conflict Studies

Publication Date

11-1-2003

DOI

10.46743/1082-7307/2003.1040

Citation Information

Honggang Yang. "Editor’s Reflections: Peacemaking among Helping Parties" (2003) p. 76 - 79
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/honggang-yang/4/