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Kevin Avruch
Affiliate Professor with School of Public Policy; Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology, Associate Director Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution

Publications & research

“Culture: Promoter of Peace and Justice or Conflict?” In Human Rights and Conflict.
(J. Mertus and J.W. Helsing, eds.). Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press. 2005a.

“ Culture, Apology, and International Negotiation: The Case of the Sino-U.S. ‘Spy Plane’ Crisis.” International Negotiation. 10(2):337-353 (with Z. Wang). 2005b.
“ Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution.” Journal of Dispute Resolution 2003(2):353-365. 2004a.

“ Culture as Context, Culture as Communication: Considerations for Humanitarian Negotiators.” Harvard Negotiation Law Review 9:391-407. 2004b.

“ Type I and Type II Errors in Culturally Sensitive Conflict Resolution Practice.” Conflict Resolution Quarterly 20(3):351-71. 2003a.

“ Conceptualizing Professional Culture and International Negotiations.” In Professional Cultures in International Negotiation: Bridge Or Rift? (Gunnar Sjostedt, ed.). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 201-216. 2003b.

“ Culture.” In Human Conflict: From Analysis To Intervention. (S. Cheldelin, D. Druckman, and L. Fast, eds.). London & New York: Continuum, pp. 140-153. 2003c.

“ The Context and Geography of Protracted Conflict: What Do I Need To Know About Culture?” In A Handbook of International Peacebuilding: Into the Eye of the Storm. (J.P. Lederach and J.M. Jenner, eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp. 75- 87. 2002a.

“ Cross-Cultural Conflict,” in, “Conflict Resolution,” ed. Keith W. Hipel, in the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Oxford, U.K.: UNESCO, Eolss Publishers. On the web at: http://www.eolss.net. 2002b.

“ Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: A Review Essay and Annotated Bibliography.” Social Justice 2(1-2):47-108 (with B. Vejarano). (Republished in The Online Journal Of Peace and Conflict Resolution, Issue 4.2, Spring 2002; at web address: http://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/4_2recon.htm). 2001a.

“ Constructing Ethnicity: Culture and Ethnic Conflict in the New World Disorder.” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 71(3):281-289. (Reprinted in, Race and Ethnicity: Comparative and Theoretical Approaches, J. Stone and R. Dennis, eds., Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 72- 82.) 2001b

“ Notes Toward Ethnographies of Conflict and Violence.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 30(5):637-648. 2001c

“ Culture and Negotiation Pedagogy.” Negotiation Journal 16(4):339-346. (Reprinted in Understanding Negotiation, M.L. Nelken, ed., Cincinnati OH: Anderson Publishing Co., 2001, pp. 51-57.) 2000a

“ Reciprocity, Equality and Status-Anxiety in the Amarna Letters.” In Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations. (R. Cohen and R. Westbrook, eds.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 154-164. 2000b