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The concept of relationship provides the analytical and operational framework through which the relational paradigm reveals itself, may be studied, and is put into practice. This concept gives hands and voice to the process of continuous interaction in political, social, and economic life. It is both a framework for analysis and an instrument of change. Like the relational paradigm, it is conceptualized from 40 years of experience with peoples in conflict, citizens building democratic societies, communities engaged in economic development, policymakers and negotiators at the highest levels of government.
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Chapter Four The Concept of Relationship
Susan Collin Marks, Watching the Wind: Conflict Resolution during South Africa’s Transition to Democracy (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000), p. xvii.
Vamik D. Volkan, Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997), pp. 81–82.
See Vamik D. Volkan, The Need to Have Enemies and Allies: From Clinical Practices to International Relationships (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1988).
Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., republished in 1966), p. 31.
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Saunders, H.H. (2005). The Concept of Relationship. In: Politics Is about Relationship. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983411_5
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