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“Staying with Conflict offers a new paradigm for dealing with long-term disputes: When dealing with enduring conflict, move past the idea of how quickly you can resolve the conflict and instead focus on how you can help people prepare to engage with an issue over time. By adopting a long-term approach, new avenues of intervention become apparent.Filled with illustrative examples from a broad variety of conflicts, from the interpersonal to the international, Staying with Conflict offers hope for dealing with our struggles as social beings”
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