| This PDE consists of a book entitled Beyond War and Peace in the Arab Israeli Conflict, accompanied by a contextual essay that places Worldwork in the context of the larger field of conflict management. The book is based on applying Worldwork, the group process and conflict work based on process-oriented psychology. Assuming that traditional war and peace methods are inadequate for dealing with the growing identity-based conflicts the world is facing, the book examines key parts of conflict in a way that moves beyond traditional approaches to war and peace, including working with hopelessness, fear, grief, revenge, and other difficult emotions that perpetuate war. The book then focuses on how to work directly with violence, including working with the energy of the killer. Beyond War and Peace contains nineteen exercises that the reader can utilize to understand points from an experiential as well as intellectual perspective.; Both the book and the contextual essay address specifically the history of the conflict between Jews and Arabs, and apply the methods of Worldwork to these specific conflicts. A major purpose of both documents is to provide specific information about the conflict between Arabs and Jews, and to expand the field of conflict work so that these methods can be applied to similar conflicts worldwide.; Because Beyond War and Peace is written for the general public, the contextual essay is a more appropriate forum for in-depth explanation of process-oriented psychology and Worldwork. The contextual essay also covers the methodology utilized to discover concepts in the book, including the seminars I taught, the seminar films I studied, and future directions of this work. The essay also addresses the limits of Worldwork, as well as covering Worldwork's and process-oriented psychology's approach to research. |
