Websites
On conflict transformation:
Transforming Conflicts in Diverse Communities - from the fantastic Community Tool Box website promoting community health and development - provides over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics including Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World, below
Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation from the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management - interesting articles about conflict transformation from a number of perspectives - international work, gender, culture, theory and diplomacy.
On developing dialogue between extreme positions - cross-faith, etc:
Public Conversations Project - influential Boston-based project doing pioneering work around building understanding between groups/philosophies that are profoundly in opposition.
On the relationship between conflict and culture:
Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World
'Cultural and Worldview Frames’– an article by Michelle Le Baron (2003) looking at conflict through the prism of culture and worldviews.
Culture and Conflict Resolution-
Brief essay outlining the relationship between culture and conflict
resolution, teaching materials, University of Bradford Centre for
Conflict Resolution.
Community development:
Combined European Bureau for Social Development (CEBSD)-
article about community conflict in Barcelona between established
community traders and new immigrant shopkeepers.
Community Development Foundation
Federation for Community Development Learning
Related UK government policy:
Department of Communities and Local Government, White Paper (2006) 'Strong and Prosperous Communities'
Safer and Stronger Communities - Information on one of the shared priorities agreed by central and local government