Using Conflict to Build Community: Community Conferencing

Social Work and Restorative Justice: Skills for Dialogue, Peacemaking, and Reconciliation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Abramson, Lauren ^a   Beck, Elizabeth ^b  

^a Community Conferencing Center ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltimore; Collective efficacy; Community conferencing; Community organizing; Community practice; Conflict transformation; Neighborhood organizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195394641.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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