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Power, Love and Conflict
Adam Kahane’s new book, Power and Lover A Theory and Practice of Social Change sets out a new approach to resolving conflict, according to publishers, Berrett-Koehler. The two main ways that people try...
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Mediate.com Recognized for Excellence as Problem Solver
The American Bar Association (ABA) has announced that mediate.com is the recipient of its 2010 Lawyer as Problem Solver Award. In granting this prestigious award, the ABA stated: Mediate.com has been...
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Aung San Suu Kyi Turns 65 June 18th
As Myanmar prepares for its upcoming elections, a sense of concern and tension is in the air. Many fear that there will once again be political unrest, resulting in widespread arrests from...
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Empathy and Humankind
According to its website, For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social...
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Walking from No to Yes
From ted.com: an elegant, simple (but not easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations — from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East. Please watch this 18 minute video of...
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Seeing sometimes really is believing
The McGurk Effect: “The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound.” The video below demonstrates this illusion with the sound ’ba’ that becomes...
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Transformative Dialogue Highly-Effective in Ethno-Political Conflicts
In this post yesterday on his blog, Dan Simon draws from a White Paper by Erik Cleven published by the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation to review the three basic reasons...
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Role Mediation Played in Cuban Missile Crisis Revealed
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis when the United States and the former Soviet Union were poised on the brink of nuclear war and the world collectively held its breath....
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Self-represented litigants now permanent part of justice system
Last Tuesday, May 7th, the report of an 18-month research project that examined the experience of 259 self-represented litigants in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia was released. Author of the...
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New York Peace Institute: Let us get in the middle
Here’s a very cool new poster from the New York Peace Institute, a not-for-profit agency serving residents in Brooklyn and Manhattan:
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