Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict [Paperback]

A noted conflict-resolution expert explores dignity, its role in human conflict, and its power to improve relationships
 
This book is a must read for those who want to experience peace in their everyday lives and peace in the world around them. . . . If you want peace, be sure everyones dignity is intact.Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
 
Anyone who understands the importance of personal feelings and their fuel for conflict should considerDignityas a powerful advisory and motivational guide.Midwest Book Review
 
Drawing on her extensive experience in international conflict resolution and on insights from evolutionary biology, psychology, and neuroscience, Donna Hicks explains what the elements of dignity are, how to recognize dignity violations, how to respond when we are not treated with dignity, how dignity can restore a broken relationship, why leaders must understand the concept of dignity, and more. By choosing dignity as a way of life, Hicks shows, we open the way to greater peace within ourselves and to a safer and more humane world for all.
 
For the Tenth Anniversary Edition ofDignity, Hicks has written a new preface that reflects on her experience helping communities and individuals understand the power of dignity and how it can lead to a more peaceful world.

By helping individuals and groups understand the power of dignity and to learn how to make it a way of life, this book serves as a field guide to the peace we want: peace within us, peace in our relationships, and peace in the safer and more humane world we all wish for.Montreal Review

In this well-organized, thoughtful book, Hicks presents a fascinating look at dignitya birthright and the baseline for positive human interaction. . . . With its accessible tone, pithy observations and lessons, and Hickss argument that the quest for dignity is as common in thelC%