Intro -- Title Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Wider Worlds -- Smaller Worlds -- "Don't Even Think about It" -- Are All the Peace Churches like This? -- Power, Authority, Leadership, and Government -- The One and the Many -- Making "Safe Spaces" to Talk -- Public and Private Stories -- Living with Conflict -- Glossary of Quaker Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary
In <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Living with Conflict: A Challenge to a Peace Church, Susan Robson explores the discomforts and denials that can arise when an organization committed to doing good suspects that it is not living up to its declared aims. This case study of Quakers in the United Kingdom closely examines the challenge of living constructively despite ever-present internal conflicts. Drawing on ideas from contemporary organizational theory, Robson's study points the way forward for Quakers and other value-based groups
