Review: “Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator,” by Lucy Moore
In this short book Lucy Moore tells several compelling stories. Their power for me comes in part from their honesty, including Moore’s willingness to examine her mistakes as well as her insights about the dynamics of her mediation work. The book is about attempts, through mediated negotiation, to resolve conflicts within and among heterogeneous groups of people. It’s about successes, failures, and outcomes that contain elements of both. It’s about helping to build relationships of trust in order to undertake collective action to further a common purpose, but also – not incidentally – for the sake of the relationships themselves…