Michael Wright

Michael S. Wright is a licensed attorney and trained social worker and mediator. He has focused his career internationally on corporate social responsibility and human rights, including serving a five-year term as Legal Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for business and human rights. He has also worked as a Fellow with Harvard University’s Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, where he led the development of an online platform to support the exploration and resolution of conflicts between businesses, workers, and communities. Michael has also held consultancies with governmental, nonprofit, and for profit organizations in this field, including the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Conflict Risk Network, and Sancroft, a private UK based CSR consultancy.

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Conflict Resolution - The Indispensable Inner Life
This article highlights the relationship of our thoughts and beliefs to our experience of conflict. It contends that our view of conflict is formed internally and, when left unquestioned, projects and holds itself externally in our conflict situation. It is argued that this dynamic blocks us from seeing anything other than the internal thoughts and beliefs that generated the conflict in the first instance. This also in turn blocks our realization of solutions. The article then points out that mediators are in a critical position to support client examination of conflict producing thoughts and beliefs, giving examples of a few common facilitative techniques that support client questioning of his/her thoughts.