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“Peter Coleman is an academic at Columbia University who studies conflict and conflict resolution. He’s written more than one book, but this is his most interesting, I think. It’s about really intractable conflicts like Palestine and Israel, where it’s hard to even define what the disagreement is about because all sides see it so differently. There are many points of conflict, all intertwined with each other and there tends to be a great weight of history weighing down on them…This book is about how to think about those conflicts. He gives some tips on how to resolve them. He doesn’t pretend it’s easy, you can’t just follow a three-step plan. What you can do is look at lots of examples and see some things that work.” Read more...
The best books on Disagreeing Productively
Ian Leslie, Journalist
