"What's Happening in Conflict Resolution" is a weekly round up of the all the ADR news, jobs, events and more. Check it out each week and view past versions [HERE].
By Tammy Lenski (Originally posted here) The way you view conflict has a tremendous impact on the way you respond and react to the conflicts in your life. Learning better, shinier, or newer conflict resolution skills won’t make the kind of difference you think it will, unless you also reconsider what you believe about conflict in general.
If you view conflict as a fight, you ask yourself, How can I win it?
If you view conflict as a problem, you ask, How can I fix it?
If you view conflict as a catastrophe, you ask, How can I avoid it?
If you view conflict as a lesson, you ask, What can I learn from it?
If you view conflict as an opportunity, you ask, How can I take advantage of it?
If you view conflict as a puzzle, you ask, How can I solve it?
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1. Pepperdine (Malibu, CA)
2. Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
3. Hamline University (St. Paul, MN)
3. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
5. University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
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The United States Institute of Peace announced an ambitious plans for the next five years. Here's a snippet below:
Priorities & Initiatives:
1) Strengthen individuals and institutions working for peace and improve the analytical, educational and other resources USIP provides to them.
- Create a new Center for Applied Research on Conflict (ARC): USIP will create a new center of excellence to conduct, commission and publish cutting-edge research and analysis.
-Strengthen the USIP Academy’s reach and impact
- Launch a PeaceTech Lab
-Strengthen select institutions that prevent and resolve violent conflict in conflict zones
-Create a new network of peace funders
2) Strengthen USIP’s capacity to prevent and resolve
violent conflict.
-Recruit, develop and retain the best talent
Overview>> Full Strategic Plan From USIP>>
By Jennifer L. Gibbs and Andrew A. Howell- In most insurance coverage disputes, the parties arrive at mediation fully aware of the other side’s position. An insured makes its position known when it submits the claim or during the claim adjustment, and an insurer presents its position when it either accepts or denies coverage.
Odds are, there will be no “smoking gun” document waived around at mediation—no “ah-ha” Perry Mason moment...
• Do opening statements assist in resolving the case or do they make settlement less likely?
• How can opening statements be made more effective?
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Stuart Rudner
The Olive Branch Blog- Having elementary-school-aged children is a very precarious time for a marriage--or so I learned during graduate school. I remember having an infant at the time and wondering--will my husband and I break-up when they hit school-age?
Calling all Conflict Specialists newly entering the field
Juried selection for featured presentation at the
2014 ACR Annual Conference
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