Sustained Dialogue in Conflicts: Transformation and Change

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"Our country is more deeply and angrily divided than at any time in my life," says Harold H. Saunders. Believing that the energies and capacities of citizens outside government are the greatest untapped resources for meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century, Saunders argues that sustained dialogue is a critical instrument for citizens to use in marshaling those resources to develop the relationships essential to peace, efficient organizations, and democratic politicaland economic development. Beyond that, sustained dialogue offers a creative diplomacy appropriate to the twenty-first century.

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HAROLD H. SAUNDERS is the President of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue and Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation. He served on the National Security Council Staff, 1961-1974, and was Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asia in the Carter Administration. He flew on the Kissinger shuttles, 1974-75, and was a principal drafter of the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, 1978-79. Since 1981, he has engaged in the nonofficial dialogues described in this book. He is author of The Other Walls: the Arab-Israeli Peace Process in a Global Perspective; A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts; and Politics Is about Relationship: a Blueprint for the Citizens' Century.