No topic is more pertinent to contemporary social problems than ethnic conflict. Ellis integrates a wide array of political, psychological, and media literature to analyze symbolic and communicative approaches to ethnic conflicts. Challenging traditional perspectives, he presents a refreshing and powerful way to integrate micro processes with macro-political approaches through focusing on communicative relationships. This book is a must-read for practitioners, students, and scholars who aim to promote second-order change and conflict transformation.

Linda L. Putnam, Texas A&M University

Transforming Conflict is an admirable achievement. Don Ellis has produced an excellent and timely book examining not only the material and psychological causes of ethnic conflict but also bringing in the under-analyzed but crucial aspect of communications. Conceptually clear and empirically informed, this book is a must-read for students of ethnic conflict.

Richard C. M. Mole, University College London

Here is a most timely addition to our libraries: a book about getting along when nobody wants to get along. Today’s problems will not be solved by yesterday’s solutions. We can learn from our history; that is how we develop new solutions. If you are confronted by conflict that resists resolution, that seems to strike at the essential identity of some of your members and seems impervious to all that has worked before, this may be just the book for you.

Rev. Dr. David Moffet-Moore, Ph.D., D.Min.