Elicitive Conflict Mapping
There are not many books that I have read cover to cover – Many Peaces is one of these. I now think of peace and conflict transformation in different ways, and I will be eternally grateful to Dietrich for lifting me out of the confusion and disillusionmen
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elicitive conflict mapping Wolfgang Dietrich
Many Peaces Wolfgang Dietrich UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies University of Innsbruck, Austria
“This third volume of Many Peaces concludes the series with both a finessing of the main ideas and a discussion of their practical application. In line with Dietrich’s wonderful eclectic, postmodern and transdisciplinary style, this practical application comes through reference to arts, culture, and personal experience, rather than through examples located within particular times or places. His use of film, theatre, and near-death experience reinforces once more the awareness that those aspects of our lives that are most intimate and personal are also those that are most universally shared. Dietrich’s work is complex and rich and contains a heady mix of theories, traditions and philosophical insights from the global West and East across time. As such it rewards careful reading and re-reading. Insights that are as truly paradigm-shifting as this do come often, and are, by their very nature, difficult to communicate and grasp. Dietrich and his translator have managed to find the language to succeed in this ambitious task, and are to be warmly congratulated for it. There are not many books that I have read in recent years that have literally changed my life. There are also not many books that I have read cover to cover—Many Peaces is one of these. I now think of peace and conflict transformation in different ways, and I will be eternally grateful to Dietrich for lifting me out of the confusion and disillusionment that I was experiencing as a peace educator before his book presented itself to me in the University of Cambridge Library. I look forward to applying, synthesising, extending and embodying his ideas over the coming months and years, and to the furtherance of peace and conflict transformation in all its forms.” —Hilary Cremin is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education where she researches peace-building and conflict transformation
“The contribution this book makes to the field of peace and conflict studies is the thorough coverage and inclusion of “Eastern” wisdom-rooted approaches stemming from the authors practices of yoga and meditation. Elicitive Conflict Mapping applies transrational approaches and systems thinking to the challenge of connecting with and transforming conflict. Drawing from eastern wisdom of non-duality found in ancient Hindu, Buddhist, and Sufi texts and drawing from systems theory, premised on interconnectedness of the part with the whole, Wolfgang Dietrich writes, “In elicitive work, there are no recipes, no definite signposts to success. “The elicitive approach described in this book uses transrational processes instead of causal solutions only; the approach provides a layered analysis that includes consciousness, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of being and existence. An elicitive conflict mapping approach—correspondence, resonance, homeostasis—is meticulously detailed and explored in this illuminating book. T
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