Beyond Control

Applies the principles of community-based conflict resolution to the policing of large crowds, suggesting a fresh approach that moves away from the discourse of rabble-rousing mobs towards negotiated management, and a paradigm of mutual respect for protesters as principled dissenters and for police as non-repressive agents of public order.

'What is refreshing about Beyond Control is the vision for the kind of society in which protesters and police recognize their mutual humanity as well as how both are needed for a democratic society to function well.' Archbishop Desmond Tutu (from the Foreword)

Vern Neufeld Redekop is Associate Professor of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University, Canada. He is the former President of the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution and the author of From Violence to Blessing: How an Understanding of Deep-Rooted Conflict Can Open Paths to Reconciliation (2002). The late Shirley Pare was Senior Trainer at the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution and was a Retired Officer of the Canadian Armed Forces.