By the early 1980s, the view that most any conflict—domestic or international, intergroup or interpersonal—could be reframed and negotiated to a satisfying conclusion if only the right technical skills were brought to bear on it had become
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“the order of things, whereas structural violence becomes apparent because it stands out like an enormous rock in a creek, impeding the free flow, creating all kinds of eddies and turbulences.5”
― Resolving Structural Conflicts: How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed
― Resolving Structural Conflicts: How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed
“No area of understanding is more relevant and important to mediation competency than a basic understanding of how the human brain functions, perceives events, processes emotional notions, cognitive response and formulates decisions. The awareness of cognitive neuroscience and psychology are at the heart of our work in managing conflict and problem solving. — Robert Benjamin”
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“In a static society, personal violence will be registered, whereas structural violence may be seen as about as natural as the air around us. Conversely, in a highly dynamic society, personal violence may be seen as wrong and harmful, but still somehow congruent with”
― Resolving Structural Conflicts: How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed
― Resolving Structural Conflicts: How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed
“We were each trained in interest-based negotiations and have provided trainings in this approach. However, as we got more and more difficult cases, we realized that these traditional interest-based methods were failing and that high conflict disputes needed their own quite different approach.”
― Mediating High Conflict Disputes: A Breakthrough Approach with Tips and Tools and the New Ways for Mediation
― Mediating High Conflict Disputes: A Breakthrough Approach with Tips and Tools and the New Ways for Mediation
“Yet even as the possibility that all conflicts might yield to skilled application of technical knowledge assuaged the popular imagination, some scholars and analysts were sounding alarms about the dangers of a culture-free conception of conflict. And we began to push back against the received view that conflicts required only mechanically technical solutions.”
― Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution: Culture, Identity, Power, and Practice
― Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution: Culture, Identity, Power, and Practice
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