The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict *[ePub]
This phenomenal bestseller—over 525,000 copies sold—expanded in a new third edition, explores how we often misunderstand the causes of our conflicts and shows us the paths to achieving true peace within ourselves and our relationships. In this day and age, perhaps there is nothing more important than knowing how to heal relationships that are breaking and how to maintain connections when people are pulling apart. So many of our conflicts seem unsolvable, but what if conflicts at home, at work, and in the world stem from the same root cause? What if we systematically misunderstand that cause? And what if, as a result, we unwittingly perpetuate the very problems we think we are trying to solve? This book unfolds as a story. Yusuf al-Falah, an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each lost his father at the hands of each other's cousins. The Anatomy of Peace is the story of how they come together, how they help their warring parents and children come together, and how we too can find our way out of the personal, professional, and global conflicts that weigh us down. This expanded third edition includes diagrams and discussions that further explain some of the book's approaches, current research about key ideas, and how the transformation approach in the book relates to Arbinger's comprehensive organizational mindset-change process. Read more
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Why Must Read The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict?
I think that the authors need to be more transparent about who they are. My finding is that the authors of this book are most likely conservative white Mormon men. I was mostly liking this book. But towards the end, I felt really uncomfortable with the discussion about race and decided to do more research on who the authors are. This was what the ideas about Black Panther protests came across like to me: "Black protestors and selfish/bad because they are not peaceful and accepting their oppressions. They have their heart at war. They are making life so much harder for white people. and do not think about it. And so even if the black protestors are the ones being beaten and tear-gassed, because they are not accepting their oppression in peace, they might as well be tear-gassing the white people/police." But the authors say this through the character of a Black professor. The authors are trying the deceptively insert a manufactured "credible-seeming" lone black perspective to seemingly vilify black protests against racism. "The one black person who is better than the rest of the black people since he has similar opinions to white people. And every black person should think like him". How do the authors know if every person in the protests had their hearts at war and not just doing "what needed to be done"? Aren't the authors showing that they are themselves in the box towards black protestors by stereotyping them and not seeing their human needs? So while I think that many of the ideas in this book are useful, there seems to be a conservative agenda hidden as well that goes against the overall message of this book.
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