Peace and Power: Creative Leadership for Building Community
The Seventh Edition of Peace and Power benefits from these years of positive and constructive leadership experiences. Updated with practical strategies for how to share leadership responsibilities, this new edition outlines strategies for how to hold discussions that include everyone, how to make decisions that consider every point of view, and how to resolve conflict.\ \ \ The book contains no figures.\
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Chinn (nursing, emeritus, U. of Connecticut) advocates for the values of cooperation, universal empowerment and integration of multiple viewpoints in conflict resolution. She offers guidelines for choosing group values and goals, conducting meetings and for incorporating more equitable relationships in organizations. The Peace and Power processes are designed to overcome all types of power imbalances and are applicable to classrooms, corporate work groups, community activism groups and families. The text lacks an index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
AcknowledgmentsPrologueCh. 1Introduction1Ch. 2Peace7Ch. 3Power11Ch. 4Making the Commitment17Ch. 5Foundations for Building Community27Ch. 6Processes for Gatherings37Ch. 7Rotating Leadership and Responsibility45Ch. 8Value-Based Decision-Building57Ch. 9Closing71Ch. 10Conflict Transformation81Ch. 11Period Pieces103Ch. 12Classrooms, Committees, and Institutional Constraints109Bibliography117
