Book Review on the Third Side by William Ury

Book Review of The trey stead Why We Fight and How We Can Stop by William Ury Reviewed By Syed Shahzad Ali sept M. Phil ( DPA) Review Submitted to Dr. Anila Amber Dated 17th October 2012 Book Review of The Third Side Why We Fight and How We Can Stop by William Ury This is a state-of-the-art discussion on fight management and duologue by well known negotiator and mediator William L. Ury, an Ameri deal National, who is worlds leading negotiation expert, he has mediated situations ranging from corporate sphere to wildcat strikes, and from family disputes to ethnic wars in the Middle East, the Balkans, N.Ireland and many other places. He has overly worked on the enigma of how to prevent nuclear war as a consultant to The snow-covered House Crises Management Center. He received his B. A from Yale and his Ph. D. in brotherly anthropology from Harvard University. The structure of paperback The Third Side is c formerlyrned, its 251 pager lightheaded weight with blue cover page b ook which is easy to view as and read any where even in a train or bus while travelling or in coffee browse or at bed time, the font of Times New popish has been used in the book with Bold heading text of book is justified.It facilitates the all state of affairs and human situations whether they belong from corporate arena to management labor disputes and from family crises to negotiation or peace talks mingled with two warring countries i. e. its transforming conflict at home, at work and in the world in to Peace. This book has been written published in regular army by Penguin Books. The title of the book is quite attractive and self instructive for the affairs of conflict and its resolution i. e. The Third Side . The cover page content, color and logo again, portray the whole matter of paperback, its xplanatory subtitle on cover page of Why We Fight And How We Can Stop and In logo two human have been depicted in forward and the word Third has been placed in between, i n which the Alphabet I has been presented as Human which for surely complement the main Title of Book. The employment of book is to diminish the possibilities of conflict and change the culture of conflict within our families, our workplaces or organizations, our communities, and most importantly within our world. The idea of paperback is to search the reasons we are in conflict and sets forward a roadmap to resolution.The origin has minded(p) ten roles convincing manner for the prevention (Provider, Teacher, Bridge-builder), containment of conflicts(Mediator, Arbiter, Equalizer, Healer) and its resolution(Witness, Referee, Peacekeeper). These ten practical roles describe as managers, teachers, parents, and citizensthat each of us send word land every aspectreal day to prevent destructive conflict, hardly much detailed has not been prone about(predicate) which sort of personalities put forward adopt to which role/s or Can anyone play the all roles simultaneously?And in our Pakistani indian lodge where we have limitations to interfere into the other affairs as third side by using all ten roles cannot be possible to play by one individual. A fragmentize from mediation, all roles lack in to classify slightlyone that how one can develop the qualities to perform such roles and how you can do it? As far as his methodology is concerned so its quite simplified but more hypotheses can be created area wise graphical representation but book lacks in it for pillow slip author can segregate the chapters region wise that how one conflict resolves in one society i. . in east or westbound etc and variation in conflicts level in different societies or cultures. more than of examples are from his personal cases or experiences which have been discussed over again and again throughout the book but case studies from some other references can be included to prove his point of view which must delve his work more authentication. Author is an anthropologist thats why he has precondition too much depth in first too chapter where he specifies about the history of human being and its evolution, culture development, population ontogenesis on earth , agriculture istory, industrial & Knowledge revolution, Development of weapons & wars etc, which some time distract the referee s attention from its main theme of conflict management. Tone Expression of author was strong in solution but it has become soften when third segment of book started from How can we stop? And at the end again tone expression of author found strong. Ideology of an author is ideal which might be change from culture to culture Society to Society. Argument presented in the paperback with ring of enthusiasm conviction, one should appreciate it as well.Grip on content were able within a single part of book and linkages among thr paragraphs were better but among the three parts it bit distracted as first part of book was bit lengthy over detailed and reader whitethorn los t the direction if he is not reading it in a one sitting. Conclusion has been depicted in a very glib suggestive manner which left the profound impression on the reader mind about the third side Conflict Management. Its a significant contribution by William Ury to the domain of conflict Management.Its not except give the new meaning to manage the relationships while dealing with arduous people which is need of todays world specially for the society of Pakistan, but also it is equally instructive for the students of social sciences or psychology. One should read it once in his/her life whether one is professional or not or student of conflict management, to create a better understanding about the third side conflict resolution. It is the prime need of our society in Pakistan to include this special gift on Conflict resolution to fill it the part of our educational curriculum.