{"product_id":"9781680991673","title":"The Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing: A Hopeful, Practical Approach to Dialogue","description":"When conflicts become ingrained in communities, people lose hope. Dialogue is necessary but never sufficient, and often actions prove inadequate to produce substantial change. Even worse, chosen actions create more conflict because people have different lived experiences, priorities, and approaches to transformation. So what’s the story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing\u003c\/i\u003e, David Anderson Hooker offers a hopeful, accessible approach to dialogue that:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntegrates several practice approaches\u003c\/b\u003e including restorative justice, peacebuilding, and arts\u003cbr\u003eCreates \u003cb\u003ewelcoming, non-divisive spaces\u003c\/b\u003e for dialogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNames and maps complex conflicts\u003c\/b\u003e, such as racial tensions, religious divisions, environmental issues, and community development as it narrates simple stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuilds relationships and foundations for trust\u003c\/b\u003e needed to support long-term community transformation projects\u003cbr\u003eAnd results in the crafting of \u003cb\u003ehopeful, future-oriented visions of community\u003c\/b\u003e that can transform relationships, resource allocation, and structures in service of communities’ preferred narratives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Little Book Transformative Community Conferencing\u003c\/i\u003e will prove valuable and timely to mediators, restorative justice practitioners, community organizers, as well as leaders of peacebuilding and change efforts. It presents an important, stand-alone process, an excellent addition to the study and practice of strategic peacebuilding, restorative justice, conflict transformation, trauma healing, and community organizing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book recognizes the complexity of conflict, choosing long-term solutions over inadequate quick fixes. The Transformative Community Conferencing model emerges from the author’s thirty years of practice in contexts as diverse as South Sudan; Mississippi; Greensboro, North Carolina; Oakland, California; and Nassau, Bahamas.","brand":"Skyhorse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134875713776,"sku":"9781680991673","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781680991673_p0.jpg?v=1763690540","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781680991673","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}