Chronic communal conflicts often embody prisoner’s dilemmas. Both communities prefer peace to war. Yet neither trusts the other, viewing the other’s gain as its loss, so potentially shared interests often go unrealized. Achieving positive-sum outcomes from apparently zero-sum struggles requires a particular kind of risk-embracing leadership.
Robben Island prison in South Africa held thousands of black political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, who opposed apartheid. This book reconstructs the inmates'resistance strategies to show how these men created a political and social order behind bars.
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