Cross-Cultural Dialogue as a Conflict Management Strategy

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This book contributes to the current knowledge and research on conflict and cross-cultural dialogue, emphasizing how respect, tolerance and dialogue may be quite effective tools for bridging the diverse cultures and, consequently, for solving many of the conflicts of today’s world, characterized by a dynamic interchange of populations with very diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. For this purpose, we rely on reputed scholars from ten different countries, and from different cultures and fields of expertise, which allows for diverse contributions from a valuable interdisciplinary perspective. The first section of the book deals with the correlation between cultural differences and conflict, while also showing how such conflicts can be prevented and, should they arise, managed and solved. The second section addresses a different, more specific issue: how cultural expression means and tools for cultural communication may lead to conflict whereas they may help to avoid it as well. Finally, the third section analyzes how legal and justice systems deal with cross-cultural conflicts as well as with situations which may lead to cross-cultural conflicts, thus assessing to which extent such systems contribute to avoid and/or solve such kind of conflicts. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The World Order and the New Geopolitical Trends (Jesús Argumosa)....Pages 3-8 The Destiny of Nuclear Weapons After the Ban Treaty (A. A. Soltanieh)....Pages 9-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Security Culture and Morale: Determinants of Effective Operation of Uniformed Services (Juliusz Piwowarski, Wojciech Czajkowski)....Pages 23-33 Individual Terrorism as a Response to the Distorted Phenomenon of Cultural Identity (Claudio. A. Payá-Santos, Juan José Delgado-Morán, Pablo Andrés Mazurier)....Pages 34-45 Language Diversity as a Source of Conflict in Hungary—Possible Implications of Immigration (Noemi Nagy)....Pages 46-58 Front Matter ....Pages 59-59 The Search for Unity Beneath Our Cultural Differences (Tina Lindhard)....Pages 61-69 What Can Psychology Offer in Cross-Cultural Dialogue: A Psychological Approach to Intercultural Competence (Marzanna Farnicka, Margarida Pocinho)....Pages 70-83 Sensemaking and Unknowable in Risk Management (Dumisani Khanyle, John David Cluett)....Pages 84-100 Aesthetics of Peace: The Role of Art in Conflict Transformation (Ioana Popescu)....Pages 101-114 Front Matter ....Pages 115-115 Dangerous Offenders with Personality Disorders: A Comparative Study of the Situation in Diverse Legal Systems, with Special Attention to Spain (Pilar Otero)....Pages 117-137 Terrorism and Violence in Spanish Prisons: A Brief Glimpse into Prison Environment: Personal Experiences and Reflections (Luis Millana)....Pages 138-153 Back Matter ....Pages 154-154