Maurice Apprey Knihy

The book proposes a novel approach to conflict resolution by empowering the conflicting parties to act as their own non-governmental organization, thus ensuring sustainability in the aftermath of third-party interventions. It emphasizes the importance of transferring responsibility and ethics to the indigenous parties involved. Utilizing formal grounded theory and meta-ethnography, it also advocates for the inclusion of development economists in interdisciplinary conflict resolution teams, highlighting the role of economic programs in addressing conflicts in transitioning countries.

In this book, Maurice Apprey continues his unique work on transgenerational haunting to explore how events in our ancestors' lives may be renegotiated and re-subjectivised in the present from within the therapeutic dyad.

The field of conflict resolution is one of the main instruments for the management of social change. There are non-governmental organizations that practice conflict resolution in fractured communities but they do so as third-party interventionists. A model is hereby proposed where the feuding parties themselves become the NGO for sustaining the positive outcome of the third-party intervention. The work toward sustainability is then reframed as an ethic of transfer to the indigenous parties that were hitherto in conflict. This reframing is performed with the praxis of formal grounded theory and modified by meta-ethnography. Lastly, an argument is made for including a development economist in an inter-disciplinary conflict resolution group because a country in transition could use an economic program to ameliorate or intensify a previous conflict. This book will be helpful to all practitioners of conflict management who are particularly interested in the ethic of project transfer. In short, it is not enough to intervene. One must necessarily build into the intervention an ethic of transfer.