Books

The Non-Linearity of Peace Processes – Theory and Practice of Systemic Conflict Transformation
D. Körppen, N. Ropers & Hans J. Gießmann (eds.)
Opladen/Farmington Hills: Barbara Budrich Verlag, 2011

This is the first comprehensive publication analysing the value added by integrating systemic thinking into peacebuilding theory and practice. The aim of this book is to link the most recent debates in the peacebuilding field, e.g. on liberal peace, on the non-linearity of conflict dynamics and on bridging the attribution gap, with various systemic discourses, discussing the extent to which systemic thinking and methods are helpful to further develop existing approaches to conflict transformation.

Against the background of several case studies, practitioners and academics elaborate on their various understandings of systemic thinking and present a great variety of systemic concepts, such as systems theory, systemic action research and
constellation work.

Articles:

Foreword

Introduction

Addressing the Complex Dynamics of Conflict Transformation
Daniela Körppen and Norbert Ropers

I. Conceptualising Systemic Thinking

A Constructivist Perspective on System Conflict Transformation
Sirin Bernshausen and Thorsten Bonacker

Navigating the Landscape of Conflict: Applications of Dynamical Systems
Theory to Addressing Protracted Conflict
Peter T. Coleman, Robin Vallacher, Andrea Bartoli, Andrzej Nowak and
Lan Bui-Wrzosinska

Radical Disagreement and Systemic Conflict Transformation
Oliver Ramsbotham

Space Beyond the Liberal Peacebuilding Consensus – A Systemic Perspective
Daniela Körppen

Facilitating Systemic Conflict Transformation Through Systemic Action Research
Danny Burns

Discovering Hidden Dynamics: Applying Systemic Constellation Work to Ethnopolitical Conflict
Dirk Splinter and Ljubjana Wüstehube

II. Implementing Systemic Thinking