Moving ‘Beyond Neutrality’ and Cross-cultural Training: Using World Café Dialogue to Address End-of-life Care Inequalities

In this article I discuss how World Cafe Dialogues can be used to unveil structural and cultural violence that drive the behaviors that maintain end-of-life care inequalities, especially among minorities, in acute healthcare hospitals. Conflict practitioners are rarely included in conversations of e...

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Published in:Peace and conflict studies 2014-04, Vol.21 (1), p.49-68
Main Author: Font-Guzman, Jacqueline N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Competence
Conflict
Conversation
Crosscultural Differences
Health Care Services
Hospitals
Inequality
Minority Groups
Motivation
Neutralism
Power Structure
Terminal Care
Training
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Summary:In this article I discuss how World Cafe Dialogues can be used to unveil structural and cultural violence that drive the behaviors that maintain end-of-life care inequalities, especially among minorities, in acute healthcare hospitals. Conflict practitioners are rarely included in conversations of end-of-life care inequalities and when included it is to 'solve a problem' through bioethics mediation or provide training in cross-cultural competence. I argue that conflict practitioners need to broaden their approach to conflict and use their skills to surface unequal power structures and implicit beliefs that maintain the unjust status quo in end-of-life care disparities. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1082-7307
1082-7307
DOI:10.46743/1082-7307/2014.1002