Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest-Crown Relations

How can large protest crowds be better and more respectfully managed by police? This topical book applies the principles of community-based conflict resolution to the policing of large crowds, suggesting a completely new approach that moves away from the view of the protester as rabble-rousing mobs towards negotiated management and a model of mutual respect which portrays demonstraters as principled dissenters and police as non-repressive agents of public order. Both are needed, the authors argue, in order for democracy to flourish.

'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.' From the Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.