About the AuthorRichard J. McGuigan is Associate Faculty at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, and is a scholar-practitioner in the conflict resolution and leadership development fields.Nancy Popp is an independent scholar-practitioner in the adult development and leadership development fields. what products are selling the most online Integral Conflict: The New Science of Conflict (Suny Series in Integral Theory)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Superb Account of How to Use Metatheory in any ConflictBy Gerry BNo surprises here as we learn that the field of conflict resolution is as conflicted as any other field of inquiry. How to get theorists and practitioners of conflict resolution to resolve their differences is an abiding question. McGuigan and Popp offer a way to identify, co-ordinate, and perhaps integrate on some occasions many different perspectives that are present in the field of conflict resolution. They do this by using an updated version of Ken Wilber's all-quadrant, all-level, "AQAL" metatheory in a decade long case study of multiple stakeholders in the River Conflict on the Fraser River in British Columbia.What McGuigan and Popp have achieved here is surprising and truly illuminating. They explain how they have used the work of different generations of scholars and practitioners in conflict resolution since the 1950s, and how they have provided constructive ways for resolving differences amongst and within stakeholders holding diverse identities and worldviews that show up in their behaviours and institutions. Thus, they tend to be, for example, more sensitive to the innate dignities of indigenous peoples with their traditional fishing cultures, fishery officials with their mandates to uphold local, state and national rules and regulations, environmentalists with their important agendas, and sportspeople with their passions for fishing, each of whom tend to be focused on their particular area of interest but tend to be ignorant of the concerns of each other.McGuigan and Popp also build on recent work in metatheory, taking on board some important insights from scholars, like Mark Edwards, Edgar Morin, Jurgen Habermas, and other practitioners in integral studies, to adapt Wilber's AQAL metatheory to meet with the lives of stakeholders and their living conditions in the River Conflict.Without doubt, McGuigan and Popp's Integral Conflict is a superb account of how to apply AQAL metatheory to identifying, co-ordinating, and perhaps integrating, and therefore resolving many different seen and unseen perspectives that are present in any conflict.