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The people in the United States are experiencing an extreme degree of division, political polarization, and civic disorder. In 'Fighting Better', Louis Kriesberg argues that the crises confronting the US presently are the result of changes in dynamics along three societal dimensions: class, status, and power. Those changes were brought about to a great degree by people waging conflicts constructively, destructively, or avoiding overt conflicts altogether. Assessing major domestic conflicts in the United States since 1945, Kriesberg evaluates how well conflicts were waged in terms of advancing justice, liberty, and equal opportunity for all Americans.

Foreword -- Celebrating the Long Reach of Lou Kriesberg -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- On Louis Kriesberg -- 1 Kriesberg Reflections: Discovering Constructive Ways of Peacemaking -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Growing up in Chicago -- 1.3 The University of Chicago, 1945-1953 -- 1.4 Columbia University, 1953-1956 -- 1.5 Cologne and Chicago, 1956-1962 -- 1.6 Early Years at Syracuse University, 1962-1972 -- 1.7 Expanding Conflict Resolution, 1973-1985 -- 1.8 Building PARC, 1986-1994 -- 1.9 Deepening and Spreading My Work, After 1994 -- References -- 2 Louis Kriesberg's Comprehensive Bibliography

On the occasion of his 90th birthday Louis Kriesberg provides an informative account of his career, tracing the trajectory of his discoveries, contributions, and stumbles as he sought to help the advance toward a more sustainable and just peace in the world. His work contributes to ideas and practices in several areas of conflict studies, notably intractable conflicts and their transformation, reconciliation, conflict analysis, and waging conflicts constructively. Although neither an autobiography nor a memoir, he embeds the course of his work in the context of historical events and in the evolving fields of peace studies and conflict resolution. In addition, he discusses the interaction of those fields with major conflicts. The book includes seven previously-published exemplary pieces on these and other topics, a comprehensive list of his publications, and several photos. A discussion of Kriesberg's work and its significance is provided by George A. Lopez, Professor of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.

In this book, author Louis Kriesberg draws on the constructive conflict approach to assess American involvements in foreign conflicts since the onset of the Cold War. He looks at what went well and what went poorly in order to derive ideas for engaging in conflicts more constructively in the future.