Conflict can either destroy or create-depending on whether and how it is guided.
Based on Rothman's six years of field work in Jerusalem with Arabs and Jews, From Confrontation to Cooperation systematically describes the evolution and application of a methodology for intergroup and international conflict management. When management trainers claim to give workshop participants immediate and usable skills, they may be promising both too much and too little. On the other hand, they promise too little because new skills are often simply mechanical devices. More fundamentally, people must want to use them. Twenty five years later I have found home, again, in Yellow Springs.