This volume gathers leading scholarship and practice guidance from the transformative field, presenting a coherent picture of conflict as an interactional crisis that can shift through empowerment and recognition. Originating in work around the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation (ISCT), the book combines foundational reflections, empirical studies, and practice frameworks that translate core premises into day-to-day choices of interveners. Bridging theory and application, contributors deepen key techniques (reflection, summarizing, check-ins), extend the originally mediation approach to coaching, dialogue, and organizational leadership, and articulate the ethical grounding and role conception that anchor nondirective practice. The result is a multi-genre resource for mediators, facilitators, coaches, managers, and educators seeking disciplined, values-based ways of supporting people in conflict.
