| Mediating Across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution Subjects: Conflict management -- Cross cultural studies; Conflict management -- Oceania; Conflict management -- Asia; Conflict management -- Australia; Conflict management -- New Zealand; Mediating Across Difference is based on a fundamental premise: to deal adequately with conflict--and particularly with conflict stemming from cultural and other differences--requires genuine openness to different cultural practices and dialogue between different ways of knowing and being. Equally essential is a shift away from understanding cultural difference as an inevitable source of conflict, and the development of a more critical attitude toward previously under-examined Western assumptions about conflict and its resolution. |