POW: Peace Over War: Using Mediation and Conflict Resolution to Reconcile International and Local Disputes

By Barbara Melamed

Book Overview

Based on her own activism in the Gandhi International Institute of Peace and Mediators Beyond Borders this book applied her Harvard Law School Negotiation Principles of Mediation to 9/11, Kent State University killings, Croatia-Bosnia, Cambodia, Immigration and orphan issues and todays Racial, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Class injustices. PTSD and moral guilt in soldiers is addressed through her own clinical work and review of scientific journals. The use of mindfulness, meditation and spirituality in their own clinical or legal work are used throughout as ways of helping individuals cope with traumatic experiences for others, while keeping their own sense of balance a priority.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1959182110
• ISBN13: 9781959182115
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Barbara Melamed
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Stop Israel and tit for tat

Reviewed by Keith Mbuya for Readers' Favorite Every day we seem to be moving a step closer to the possibility of a war breaking out. Tensions keep rising within and outside international borders. Minority communities all over the world keep making an outcry against oppression. World superpowers continue to flex their nuclear weaponry power amid deteriorating international relations with each other, and sovereign states are being forcefully invaded. These are just examples of the problems eating away at the delicate fabric of world peace as we know it. Is there hope for the world? Are there solutions to the world’s problems? Barbara Melamed answers these and more questions, addressing problems such as xenophobia, police brutality, denial of rights to indigenous people, the effect of previous humanitarian crises, the PTSD caused by all these, and how to deal with it in POW: Peace Over War: Using Mediation and Conflict Resolution to Reconcile International and Local Disputes ok gives many examples where the lack of mediation cost lives.