Rosi Greenberg is an artist and leadership trainer who has spent years talking, fighting, and drawing – literally drawing – connections between the two. A native of Philadelphia, Rosi spent her college years becoming fluent in Arabic so that she could learn about Palestine/Israel and speak boldly to her Jewish community about truths that were hard to see. While living in the West Bank, Rosi worked with Palestinian artists to create murals on the walls of Deheishe Refugee Camp and to create connections between Palestinians living in Israel and those living in the West Bank. Rosi has worked as a public school classroom teacher, data analyst, and consultant in education in Baltimore and Jordan, and witnessed the daily injustices taking place even in education systems that are trying their best.Rosi holds a Masters of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and lives in Cambridge, where she spends her free time biking, dancing, creating non-hierarchical learning communities, and drawing on her walls. She works with C-suite executives, community organizers, nonprofits, philanthropists, youth groups, political campaigns and more, helping people connect deeply and make creative, systemic change through art and leadership workshops. Check out her Illustration page HERE and follow her on IG at drawntolead.art.
When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance
SKU: 9781629638362
Author: Rebecca Subar • Illustrator: Rosi Greenberg • Forewords by Esteban Kelly and Douglas Stone
Series: PM Press
ISBN: 978-1-62963-836-2
Published: 3/2021
Format: Paperback
Size: 6×9
Pages: 224
Subjects: Political Process / Political Advocacy / Negotiating
Praise
“Rebecca Subar’s rich personal background and distinguished career advising political negotiators, organization-builders, and movement strategists have positioned her as one of the world’s leading voices on conflict management. Here Subar combines profound insights from both practitioners and theoreticians, offering her readers invaluable paradigms on conflict transformation. When to Talk and When to Fight is the book many of us having been waiting for!”
—Sa’ed Atshan, associate professor of peace and conflict studies, Swarthmore College
“This is an emotionally and intellectually engaging masterpiece about lovers and fighters. It makes clear that the defining connection between talking and fighting is that the fight for policy change and passionate dialogue must both exist to change a narrative of trauma and injustice. This is a must-read.”
—Shawanna Vaughn, antiviolence and criminal justice activist with Silent Cry Inc.
“When to Talk and When to Fight brilliantly bridges the worlds of bargaining-table negotiation and social movement power building. Rebecca Subar creates an original framework for understanding why the two approaches are often in tension with one another and how—when coordinated skillfully—they can be used together. A writer who is both a ‘peacemaker and provocateur,’ Subar fills her book with illuminating stories and narrates with a wonderfully engaging personal voice, making the reading at once absorbing and enlightening.”
—Mark Engler, coauthor of This Is an Uprising
“Rebecca Subar’s book is a powerful and important exploration of the tensions between challenging unjust centers of power and negotiating our terms of victory. This book has forced me to ask tough questions about both the social justice strategies I am comfortable with—and the strategies I need to get more comfortable with to be the most effective human rights advocate possible.”
—Sunjeev Bery, Executive Director, Freedom Forward
“In When to Talk and When to Fight, Subar argues against black-and-white binaries and promotes the validity of different strategies depending on the mix of personal and community styles, principles and values, structural obstacles and biases, and the power dynamics between the opposing parties in a constantly churning and contradictory society. Subar’s style is engaging and challenging, a smart ‘how-to’ book that is grounded in a deep personal understanding of social struggle and political advocacy.”
—Alice Rothchild, author of Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine
“With wit and humor, Rebecca Subar has written a book for aspiring social change advocates that eases the way into predicaments over whether to talk or to fight. With a storyteller’s savvy and drawing from deep practical experience, Subar offers nuanced consideration of unsettled questions on strategies for building social power and sensitively probes the role of values in political conflict. With new tools and models to face the challenges of our times, When to Talk and When to Fight is both an ideal for book clubs and group study in organizations and a guide for emergent campaigns to dismantle injustices.”
—Mary Elizabeth King, PhD., professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University for Peace (a UN affiliate), and Distinguished Rothermere American Institute Fellow, University of Oxford
“A beautiful, compelling, and timely approach to moving through conflict and building deep relationship to create change. For today’s leaders navigating constant conflict, this book is an essential tool to help reach a future filled with liberation and connection.”
—Rev. Darlene Nipper, CEO, Rockwood Leadership Institute
“As we face growing ecological, economic, and political crises, we need to know how to use all the available tools to create change—resistance and organizing, as well as dialogue and negotiation. When to Talk and When to Fight provides essential wisdom about how to deploy the right approach at the right time.”
—Mitch Chanin, cofounder of the Jewish Dialogue Group,climate justice organizer with 350 Philly
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