Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I. The Values and Limits of Western Approaches to Conflict Resolution Chapter 1. Postcolonial Conflict Resolution Chapter 2. Silence in Western Models of Conflict Resolution Chapter 3. Local Conflict Resolution in the Shadows of Liberal International Peacebuilding II. Australian Aboriginal and Māori Approaches to Conflict Resolution Chapter 4. Conflict Murri Way: Managing through Place and Relatedness Chapter 5. Conflict Resolution and Decolonisation: Aboriginal Australian Case Studies in ‘Enlarged Thinking’ Chapter 6. Māori Dispute Resolution: Traditional Conceptual Regulators and Contemporary Processes III. Melanesian Approaches to Conflict Resolution Chapter 7. Christianity, Custom, and Law: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Postconflict Solomon Islands Chapter 8. Bougainville: A Source of Inspiration for Conflict Resolution IV. East Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution Chapter 9. Crossing Borders: Indonesian Experience with Local Conflict Resolution Chapter 10. Mediating Difference in Uchi Space: Conflict Management Lessons from Japan Chapter 11. Shu and the Chinese Quest for Harmony: A Confucian Approach to Mediating across Difference Chapter 12. Korean Sources of Conflict Resolution: An Inquiry into the Concept of Han Chapter 13. Conclusion: Mediating the Mediation with Difference Contributors Index