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This book explores conflict through the discerning lens of Integral Theory, applying Ken Wilber's AQAL model to a real-life case study, the River Conflict. Coauthor Richard J. McGuigan was a mediator in this ongoing dispute over fishing rights on the Fraser River in British Columbia, a situation where commercial, recreational, and First Nations fishing interests clashed. Voices of the various stakeholders are featured prominently, giving a vivid sense of a seemingly intractable situation. McGuigan and Nancy Popp set the stage for their Integral analysis of the River Conflict, then move expertly through four chapters aimed at understanding the conflict from the four dimensions of human experience: individual, collective, interior, and exterior. The result is a powerful picture of just how "integral" conflict is. This quadrant-by-quadrant analysis is well-punctuated by sidebar observations, insights, and tips for conflict practitioners or students, giving readers new to Integral Theory additional support in understanding and applying the AQAL model to their work.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Ken Wilber and Vern Neufeld Redekop

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The Conflict Field

3. Overview of the New Science of Conflict

4. The Fraser River Conflict

5. The Upper-Left Quadrant (UL)

6. The Lower-Left Quadrant (LL)

7. The Upper-Right Quadrant (UR)

8. The Lower-Right Quadrant (LR)

9. The Integral Vision of Conflict

Notes
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

Sujets

Vie de famille

Relations familiales

Indigenous peoples

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	21 avril 2016
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781438460673
Langue	English

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Integral Conflict
SUNY series in Integral Theory

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, editor
Integral Conflict
The New Science of Conflict
RICHARD J. M C GUIGAN
and
NANCY POPP
Forewords by
Ken Wilber and Vern Neufeld Redekop
Cover photo: iStockphoto.com / sunbeams shining through dramatic cloudscape
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
© 2016 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McGuigan, Richard J., 1952– author. | Popp, Nancy, 1955– author.
Title: Integral conflict : the new science of conflict / Richard J. McGuigan and Nancy Popp ; foreword by Ken Wilber and Vern Neufeld Redekop.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015. | Series: SUNY series in integral theory | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015022255 | ISBN 9781438460659 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438460673 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Conflict management. | Social sciences—Philosophy.
Classification: LCC HM1126.M3964 2015 | DDC 303.6/9—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015022255
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To Sylvia—RJM
To Chris and Jesse—NP
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Ken Wilber
Foreword by Vern Neufeld Redekop
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Why Write This Book
AQAL: The New Science of Conflict
Who Is Ken Wilber?
2. The Conflict Field
Increasing Disorder, Chaos, and Crisis
Environment and Resource Conflict
International Conflict
National-Social Conflict
These are Wicked Problems and Conflicts
Complexity
Going Backward in Responding to Wicked Problems
The Dream of an Integrated Approach to Understanding Conflict
The Tower of Babel
Wave I: The Founders’ Vision: A Unified Theory of Conflict
Wave II: The Rise of the Contemporary Conflict Movement
Problems with Violence and with Theory Development
The Dream Remains Unrealized
We Need a New, Radically Different Vision of the Present World
Wave III: Building Bridges: Realizing the Founders’ Vision
The New Science of Conflict: The Inside and the Outside
3. Overview of the New Science of Conflict
Applications of Integral Theory/AQAL
An Evolutionary Vision
Integralism as a Transdisciplinary Model
Consciousness and Conflict
The New Science of Conflict: An AQAL Model
The AQAL Model of Conflict
The Five Elements of Integral Conflict
Different Ways of Investigating a Conflict
4. The Fraser River Conflict
The River Conflict
Some Voices in the River Conflict
Conclusion
Introduction to the Four Quadrants of Conflict—Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8
Introduction to the Left-Hand of Conflict—Chapters 5 and 6
5. The Upper-Left Quadrant (UL)
The Hidden Curriculum of Conflict
Meaning-Making: Constructing Realities
Identity Conflict Theories
The Evolution of Identity and Meaning-Making
An Evolutionary Lens: Understanding the Meaning of Fish
Mindsets in the River Conflict
Guidance from and for the Upper-Left-Hand of Conflict
Mindful Action
Conclusion to the Upper-Left Quadrant
6. The Lower-Left Quadrant (LL)
Cultural Evolution
Cultural Evolutionary Philosophers
Critiques of Cultural Evolution
Concern #1: Evolutionary Models Are Hierarchical
Concern #2: Obtaining Sufficient Data Is Impossible
Concern #3: Indigenous Cultures Are Seen as Mere Stepping Stones to Greater Cultural Complexity
Advances and Regressions in Evolution
Progress Is Dialectical
Differentiation Differs from Dissociation
Transcendence Means Inclusion not Repression
Natural Holarchy Is Different from Pathological Hierarchy
Lower Impulses Can Hijack Higher Structures
Cultural Evolution through the Lens of the New Science of Conflict
Cultural Worldviews
Implications for Conflict
Implications for Theory Development
Structural Violence
Ontological Violence
The Identity Group and Protracted Social Conflict
Needs Theory
Cultural Communication and Conflict
Implications for the River Conflict
Contact and the River People
The River Conflict and Mediator Interventions
Victimhood and Conflict
The River Conflict as a Clash of Worldviews
Conclusion to the Lower-Left Quadrant
The Left-Hand of Conflict
Introduction to the Right-Hand of Conflict—Chapters 7 and 8
7. The Upper-Right Quadrant (UR)
Human Behavior
What is Social Mediation?
It’s in Our Nature
What’s Real About Realism?
Constructive and Destructive Behavior in Conflict
The Inside of the Human Body
Evolutionary Psychology, Human Nature, and Conflict
Physical States, Health, and Conflict
Autopoiesis, Identity Development, and Conflict
It’s in Our Blood
Application to the River Conflict
Conclusion to the Upper-Right Quadrant
8. The Lower-Right Quadrant (LR)
Social Evolution and Approaches to Conflict
The Big Machine: Functional Approaches to Conflict Theory
Gross and Subtle Reductionism
The Birth of Mechanism
Large-Scale Social Systems
Team and Group Behavior
Systems Theory and Conflict
Complexity Systems
Autopoietic Systems
Problems with Systems Thinking
Structural Conflict and Structural Violence
Power in Natural and Dominator Hierarchies
Social Systems and Structural Violence through the Lens of the New Science of Conflict
The River Conflict: Confronting Structural Conflict and Violence
Structural Inequalities
Responding to Structural Conflict
AQAL-Informed Strategies for Addressing Structural Conflict
Conclusion to the Lower-Right Quadrant
9. The Integral Vision of Conflict
Seeing the Whole of Conflict: The New Science of Conflict
The Integral Intervener: Cultivating Integral Consciousness
Recognizing and Engaging the Hidden Curriculum of Conflict
Immunity to Change
Integral Meditation
Developing Artistry through Practicing Action Inquiry
There Is No “Up” or “Down”
Notes
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Illustrations
Figures
Figure 3.1 Sense Making and Theory Development. Adapted from “Evaluating Integral MetaTheory: An Exemplar Case and a Defense of Wilber’s Social Quadrant,” Journal of Integral Theory and Practice 3:4 (2008), 63
Figure 3.2 The Four Quadrants of the River Conflict
Figure 3.3 Four Perspectives of the River Conflict
Figure 3.4 The Four Quadrants and Stages of Development
Figure 3.5 The Integral Psychograph
Figure 3.6 The Integral Sociograph
Figure 3.7 Selected States and Conflict
Figure 3.8 Selected Typologies
Figure 3.9 The Eight Major Zones of Inquiry
Figure 8.1 Integral Sociograph
Tables
Table 5.1 The Mindsets of Meaning-Making in Conflict
Table 6.1 McIntosh’s Stages of Worldview Development. Adapted from Steve McIntosh, Evolution’s Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins (New York: Select Books, Inc., 2012)
Table 6.2 Wilber’s Evolutionary Worldviews. Adapted from Barrett Brown, “An Overview of Developmental Stages of Consciousness,” Integral Institute. February 2007
Foreword
Integral Meta-Theory is, as the term “meta-theory” denotes, not so much a theory about reality as it is a theory about theories. It doesn’t just make a claim or conclusion or theory about a particular aspect of reality—justice, psychology, history, spirituality, education, politics, or some such—but rather looks, in a very general way, at all the theories that have been made about reality in all those areas, and then draws conclusions about the nature of theories themselves—what makes some more comprehensive, more complete, more inclusive, more accurate, more effective. And it does this not in a minute detail-by-detail fashion (which could only be done with massive computer assistance), but more in “the view from 50,000 feet”—the large, major, basic areas that our theories or our maps about reality have traditionally touched on and dealt with. By looking at the Big Pictures that humans have drawn about their being-in-the-world—in premodern and modern and postmodern eras—and by filling in the gaps in any one Big Picture by using all the others, the result is a “composite map,” a relatively “complete map,” a “super-map,” if you will, that covers all the major areas that humans have, in their overall history, discovered to be true or good or real.
Does this already sound a little too “complex”? Well, in a sense it is; but it might be better to think of it as “complete”—at least relatively complete, compared to most maps or theories. For what the Integral Framework gives us is a guide to what areas we need to look at when examining any topic, if we really want a full, inclusive, complete understanding of that topic (at least as complete as the overall knowledge base today allows—but the knowledge, again, is coming from premodern, modern, and postmodern sources—it is itself, in other words, fairly complete, at least as far as we know today).
And then Integral Meta-Theory, when applied to reality itself, actually gives us a much more complete, inclusive, wholistic, all-embracing view of whatever topic we are addressing. The result is that our attempts to effect, change, or simply understand the world are enormously enhanced. This “composite map” or “super-map” actually allows us to take virtually any discipline or area of human activity and, by using the Integral Framework, to flesh it out and fill it in, thus making that item radically more complete and inclusive, touching on areas that previously w