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AbstractIn Western mediation practice, conflict and violence are typically seen as destructive and unhelpful ways of
being, and this does not allow for the constitutive and productive role of conflict in many non‐Western
traditions. The playing out of these assumptions in mediation practice effects an operation of power that is
particularly significant in intercultural mediations. Explicit and implicit mediator techniques lead disputants
in intercultural mediations to behave in ways consistent with the goals of mediation and Western norms around
conflict and selfhood. The specificity of this analysis means that the findings are indicative and explorative
rather than comprehensive. Nevertheless, the results highlight the need to consider ways in which researchers
and mediators can begin to mitigate this operation of power and respond to cultural difference in ethical
ways.

Cover -- 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 Maori Approaches to Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 4 Conflict Murri Way -- Chapter 5 Conflict Resolution and Decolonisation -- Chapter 6 Maori Dispute Resolution -- III Melanesian Approaches to Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 7 Christianity, Custom, and Law -- Chapter 8 Bougainville -- IV East Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 9 Crossing Borders -- Chapter 10 Mediating Difference in Uchi Space -- Chapter 11 Shu and the Chinese Quest for Harmony -- Chapter 12 Korean Sources of Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 13 Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.

This introduction provides an overview for the following collection of articles that engage with, and aim to extend, recent scholarship emphasising space as a category of analysis in peace and conflict studies. Attempts to 'spatialise' this field of enquiry have emphasised the ways actors and ideas travel and transform across scale (from the personal to the local, regional and global) and how agents, actors and identities constitute, and are constituted by, space and place in dynamics of conflict and peace. Attention to space has increased appreciation of the complex nature of nature of war- and peace-'scapes', and reflects upon space as material and symbolic, given meaning through peoples' embodied activity and interactions. The articles in this issue engage with the foundations of the spatial turn and build upon innovations in spatial analysis of peace and conflict by focussing on the idea of 'emplacement' and emplaced security as critical to peacebuilding efforts and processes of conflict transition. To do so, we consider place in a relational sense, focussing on attachment, affective connection and narratives of place-identity as these are connected with conflict management, security, governance and political ordering.