Beyond Neutrality Confronting the Crisis in Conflict Resolution

In this thought-provoking, passionately written book, Bernard Mayer an internationally acclaimed leader in the field dares practitioners to ask the hard questions about alternative dispute resolution. What' s wrong with conflict resolution? Why aren' t more individuals and organizations using conflict resolution when they have a problem? Why doesn' t the public know more about it? What are the limits of conflict resolution? When does conflict resolution work and when does it not? Offering a committed practitioner' s critique of the profession of mediation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution, "Beyond Neutrality focuses on the current crisis in the field of conflict resolution and offers a pragmatic response.

Bernard S. Mayer, Ph.D., is a partner at CDR Associates, in Boulder, Colorado. He has worked since the late 1970s in the conflict resolution field as a mediator, facilitator, trainer, researcher, program administrator, and dispute systems designer. He is the author of The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Jossey-Bass, 2000), as well as many other writings about conflict and conflict resolution.