Inter- and intra-clan conflicts in Northern Israel pit hundreds against each other in revenge cycles that take years to resolve and impact the entire community. The Sulha is a Shari’a-based traditional conflict resolution process that works independently of formal legal systems and is widely practiced to manage such conflicts in the north of Israel, as well as throughout the Muslim and Arab worlds. The Sulha process works by effecting a gradual attitudinal transformation, from a desire for revenge to a willingness to forgive, through restoration of the victim’s clan sense of honour. Muslim/Arab Mediation and Conflict Resolution examines the process of Sulha, as practiced by the Arab population of northern Israel, where it plays a central role in the maintenance of peace among Muslims, Christians, and Druze alike. It presents detailed analysis of every stage of this at times protracted process. It uses interviews with victims, perpetrators, Sulha practitioners, community leaders and lawyers, along with statistical analysis to examine how Sulha affects people’s lives, how various sectors of society impact the practice, and how it coexists with Israel’s formal legal system. Furthermore, it examines how Sulha compares to Western dispute resolution processes. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the entire Sulha process, and is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle East studies, Islamic studies and conflict resolution.
Millions of people, in the US and other parts of the world, face the grim prospect of losing their driving privileges, their mobility, and to a great extent their freedom, due to a deterioration in their eyesight or a disabling eye disease. "Driving with Confidence" is an empowering tool. Its message is simple: In many cases, people with low vision can and do receive, retain and safely exercise their driving privileges.
The relationship between the individual and society has been a major topic in social sciences since their emergence in the 19th century. Yet it was only at the turn of the century - when Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis - that the discussion of this relationship changed from a merely philosophical deliberation on the categories "individual" and "collective" into a discussion between two new disciplines with their own paradigmatic ambitions: sociology versus psychology. It is not by chance that, when hierarchizing the sciences, Auguste Comte did not consider psychology to be a science in its own right, but rather had to decide whether to assign it to either biology or sociology. As a matter of fact, in the 19th century, biology, representing "nature", was the actual counterpart to the abstract category of society. It was this reciprocal relationship on which Herbert Spencer founded his system of sociology. Thus, the triad sociology-psychology-biology, and the disciplinary combinations resulting from it, may be seen as the matrix of modern social sciences. It should be pointed out, though, that whether in the synthesis of macro-sociological Marxism and Freudian depth psychology, or in the combination of biology and sociology in US American sociobiology, the social dimension remained predominant, while the sociological explanation of collective phenomena was enriched by engaging in interdisciplinary discourses. But an interdisciplinary approach based on the full triad of sociology-psychology-biology is yet to be born. It is undoubtedly a very complex endeavor. All the more welcome is the engagement of Doron Pely and Igal Vardi in this book. One can only agree with their claim: "It is time to give a rapprochement between psychology and sociology another honest try - this time around with the help of the bridging services of neurology.""--
Inter- and intra-clan conflicts in Northern Israel pit hundreds against each other in revenge cycles that take years to resolve and impact the entire community. The Sulha is a Shari’a-based traditional conflict resolution process that works independently of formal legal systems and is widely practiced to manage such conflicts in the north of Israel, as well as throughout the Muslim and Arab worlds. The Sulha process works by effecting a gradual attitudinal transformation, from a desire for revenge to a willingness to forgive, through restoration of the victim’s clan sense of honour. Muslim/Arab Mediation and Conflict Resolution examines the process of Sulha, as practiced by the Arab population of northern Israel, where it plays a central role in the maintenance of peace among Muslims, Christians, and Druze alike. It presents detailed analysis of every stage of this at times protracted process. It uses interviews with victims, perpetrators, Sulha practitioners, community leaders and lawyers, along with statistical analysis to examine how Sulha affects people’s lives, how various sectors of society impact the practice, and how it coexists with Israel’s formal legal system. Furthermore, it examines how Sulha compares to Western dispute resolution processes. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the entire Sulha process, and is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle East studies, Islamic studies and conflict resolution.
Millions of people, in the US and other parts of the world, face the grim prospect of losing their driving privileges, their mobility, and to a great extent their freedom, due to a deterioration in their eyesight or a disabling eye disease. "Driving with Confidence" is an empowering tool. Its message is simple: In many cases, people with low vision can and do receive, retain and safely exercise their driving privileges.
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