Coping with Crisis focuses on the theme of conflict management and resolution in its many facets: on the level of individuals, families, groups, cities, and countries, in the spheres of environment, economics, law, and politics, and through its representation in literature and the arts. The essays in this three-part volume, grouped into the rubrics of Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences, describe varied modes of response to conflict, presenting both theoretical discussions and many instructive examples of how potentially volatile situations may be avoided or defused. Shuli Barzilai is Professor of English and director of the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Lacan and the Matter of Origins (Stanford) and Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times (Routledge, forthcoming). Arza Churchman is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and chair of the Academic Committee of the Israel Association of Canadian Studies. She is the coeditor of The Handbook of Environmental Psychology (Wiley) and was awarded the Career Achievement Award of the Environmental Design Research Association. Allen Zysblat is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of the Executive Committee of the Israel Association of Canadian Studies. Before coming to Israel in 1976, he was on the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and member of the British Columbia Law Reform Commission.