Managing Public Disputes: A Practical Guide for Professionals in Government, Business, and Citizen's Groups

For more than a decade, Managing Public Disputes has beenthe first choice, hands-on guide for managers, offering usefulinstructions for handling a wide range of large and small publiccontroversies from the national to the community level. Itincludes:

• Ten proven principles for managing conflict
• A comprehensive framework with step-by-step procedures forcreating productive outcomes
• Seven illustrative case examples
• Detailed advice on effective methods for collectinginformation, conducting interviews, and analyzing a conflictsituation
• Suggestions for handling special problems such as reluctantparticipants, keeping people at the negotiation table, and handlingsituations where emotions are running high
• Eight tasks targeted for designing an overall strategy formanaging public disputes