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Peter Adler
Peter S. Adler is President and CEO of The Keystone Center and the author of Eye-of-the-Storm Leadership: 150 Ideas, Stories, Quotes and Exercises on the Art and Politics of Managing Human Conflicts (available at www.eyeofthestormleadership.com).
Contact Peter Adler
Website: www.keystone.org
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On Video:
Background/Definition of Protean, Concerns with Orthodoxy in Mediation
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Adler talks about the root of the word 'Protean', and the ideal mediator who might use all the approaches - moral, competitive, cooperative, technical/scientific/rational schools. Also speaks of his concerns of mediators thinking too orthodoxically, only mediating from the perspective of one school.
Developing Intuition in Mediation
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P. Adler describes the art of mediation and how it takes a development of intuition to recognize what a mediator should say and when he/she should say it in a mediation session.
Language: Mediator vs. Peacemaker
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Adler talks about language and titles, in what contexts to use them: mediator vs. peacemaker
Likes of Mediating: Problem Solving and Helping Others Determine Solutions
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P. Adler describes what he likes most about mediation: being a problem solver and guiding people to negotiate their own solutions.
Mediation and Leadership with Philosophies of the Latter
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P. Adler discusses mediation as a form of leadership. He also talks about his philosophy of when circumstance meets person: one can be a leader or a follower depending on their capabilities and values within that circumstance.
Mental Preparedness While Mediating: Baseball Metaphor
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Peter Adler uses baseball metaphor as he talks about being focused and prepared within a mediation process.
Utilizing Techniques from all Schools of Mediation
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P. Adler discusses what he would emphasize if he were to be a trainer. Mostly, he would attempt to teach how a mediator can use tools from all the schools of mediation instead of being orthodox in mediating from one school.
Concern: Increase in Specializations
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P. Adler describes his disappointment in the fact that the field has grown, but separated into many specializations, which divide mediators, making it difficult to come together and discuss the field overall.
Mediation in India: Panchayat
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P. Adler speaks of his experiences of observing how mediation occurs in rural India, by Panchayats, rural governing bodies that parties in conflict would go to seeking resolutions.
The Risks of the Increase in Mediation Specializatons
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P. Adler speaks of the negatives that come with the increase of specializations in the mediation field; mediation will become more rigid, rule-bound, and will develop professional castes and classes.
Advice to Novice Mediators
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P. Adler talks about advice he might give to novice mediators: have perseverence, be realistic in the work mediators do, don't have high expectations of soap-opera style mediation.
Background and Early Training in Hawaii
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Peter Adler describes his entry into the mediaton field and the background training he had from an outward bound program in Hawaii, learning a native practice called "Ho'oponopono".
Definition and Background of "Ho'ponopono"
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Adler describes the meaning of "Ho'oponopono," the practice in native Hawaiian culture that helps to restore harmony and normality among family members, extended families.
Experiences Leading to Interest in Mediation: Conflict in India
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P. Adler describes his Peace Corps experience in India and how it may have led to his interest in mediation. He lived in a community with much violent conflict between and among different Indian groups and was intrigued with how the community handled these issues.
Articles:
The End of Mediation: An Unhurried Ramble On Why The Field Will Fail And Mediators Will Thrive Over The Next Two Decades!
Brothers and sisters, mediators and facilitators, consensus-builders and collaboration gurus: let us gather down by the river. We have much to discuss, not the least of which is that the end of mediation is upon us.
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A Credo For Facilitators
I recently was asked to state clearly and unequivocally to a group of prospective clients what my “philosophy” of facilitation is. To prepare for that, I went back through my files and dug up a “credo” that various colleagues and I put together in 1998 in Hawaii. The statement grew out of a series of discussions about the use and occasional abuse of “facilitation” in the public, private, and civic sectors. The following tenets have held up well over the years and may be of use to others. We encourage readers to copy and disseminate the statement to other groups and individuals who have an interest in facilitation, collaboration, and consensus-building.
Appeasement and Diplomacy: When There is a Tempest in a Teapot, Keep Your Eye on the Teapot!
George Bush recently visited Israel on the occasion of its 60th birthday and, in a speech to the Knesset, put forward thinly veiled criticisms of Barack Obama suggesting that his willingness to negotiate with Iran and Syria is the “false comfort of appeasement.” Out on the campaign trail, John McCain chimed right in. “The President is exactly right.” Various Democrats instantly fired back. Joe Bidden called the president’s comments “bullshit.” Hillary Clinton (rising to Obama’s defense) said Bush and McCain failed to understand the distinction between appeasement and diplomacy. Well, what is the difference between appeasement and diplomacy?
Eye of the Storm Leadership - Chapter One
Peter Adler is pleased to here provide Chapter One of his new book "Eye of the Storm Leadership." This chapter is entitled: Guerilla Bridge Building and includes free access to the accompanying video.
Ten Questions on Leadership for Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama
The U.S. presidential run-up is a time to think about politics, conflict and leadership. The collective challenges we face -- balancing freedom and security, maintaining economic and environmental sustainability, educating our young people, and assuring the health of those who cannot take care of themselves -- crisscross all sorts of historic borders, jurisdictions, and purviews. Making headway on these challenges will necessarily be a team sport.
How will Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama approach them? Imagine for a moment that we could engage all three candidates in an extended dialogue that goes beyond the sound bites and platform promises we have grown too accustomed to. Here is what I would ask:
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Introduction to Eye of the Storm Leadership
In the vast galaxy of leadership practices, the 150 ideas that follow focus on making deals, brokering agreements, and managing the inevitable conflicts that occur in politically charged circumstances. They are about communication, negotiation, problem solving, and “guerilla peace making.” The premise is simple and was best stated by philosopher, psychologist, and educator John Dewey: “Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity and sets us at noting and contriving."
From Peter Adler
Congratulations to Mediate.com! You have provided an enormous service to
the vast community of people who share a passion for conflict resolution,
who want to make the world a better place, and who are doing it day-by-day.
Great things lie ahead and the next 200 will be even better!
The Ok Tedi Negotiations: Rebalancing the Equation in a Chronic Sustainability Dilemma
Between November 2005 and June 2007, a team from The Keystone Center helped organize and implement a multiparty negotiation process aimed at increased redress for people affected by river contamination from the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Ok Tedi is often cited as one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in the world. It is also a true sustainability dilemma. The mine produces 20% of PNG’s gross domestic product, but it has also disrupted the traditional food webs and lives of more than 50,000 people by putting 90,000 tons of rock waste and tailings per day into the Fly River system. After 18 months of effort, a major benchmark was accomplished. Delegates of the nine affected regions along the river, the mining company, the government, and others concluded a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that will ultimately give the people in the impacted area about 1.1 billion kina (roughly US$350 million) in funds, projects, and services.
Giving Politics a Makeover
Politics is a hard business. It has been variously described as war without bloodshed (Mao Tse Tung), the conduct of public affairs for private advantage (Ambrose Bierce), and the art of looking for trouble and applying the wrong remedy to it (Earnest Benn). The word itself comes from the Greek “polis” meaning the collective. Politics is all about all of us “together” and the making of choices about the distribution of power, rights, assets, liabilities, and obligations. If you are a mediator or facilitator, this shouldn’t be foreign territory. It is something we help people do all the time.
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Keystone Conference: No, We Are Not A Field and Here is Why the Question Matters
if we really are a profession, then let’s stop dithering about it and get on with the hard political organizing needed to stake it out and lay full claim to it. If we are a profession, let’s make very specific recommendations from this conference to that effect and set in motion an agenda for pursuing it. This means finalizing agreed upon principles and practices, creating licensing and regulatory regimes to prevent any further encroachment of our work by other professions, and even poaching back that which has been nibbled away by others. On the other hand, if we are not a field but part of some kind of multifaceted social movement, then let’s not waste more time on professionalization issues and get on with strategically changing a few more parts of our societies for the better.  Video
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Reel Negotiation: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Reflections Of Negotiation And Mediation In Film
The visual experience of watching movie scenes is, needless to say, a great learning tool that helps to illustrate, clarify or frame the discussion not only about negotiation and mediation, strategies, techniques and skills, but approaches to problem solving and leadership as well. Many of our favorites are listed below with brief annotations as to why and how we think they might be helpful, along with references to articles and reviews of a few movies that are especially important.
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Some Radical Thinking on Centrism, Politics, And the Future of Conflict Management
In the space of a single generation, it would seem, the idea of using less-adversarial methods of conflict management has come of age. But what of the political culture?
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Hope For The Future? Follow The Kids!
Resolving complex, highly political, public policy issues is inherently messy. On occasion, a unique chemistry of effective leadership, good technical information, and principled negotiating actually does the job. It beggars the imagination to think that a bunch of smart high school kids could create inspired political breakthroughs where leaders in government, industry, and non-profits have repeatedly failed. Nonetheless, that is what recently happened.
Dialogue By Design: Sixteen Practical Ideas for Organizing and Convening Policy Mediations
“Policy Dialogues” are a form of conflict resolution. They are used in regulatory, standard-setting, rule-making, and policy forming settings in which multiple stakeholders are struggling with an issue that has political urgency. Meetings are held over a period of time, they are usually guided by a facilitator or mediator, and they aspire to produce concrete outputs, i.e. a guidance to government, a proposed rule or regulation, a plan, or a strategy.
Beyond Cultural Identity: Reflections on Multiculturalism
No one is culture free. Yet, the conditions of contemporary history are such that we may now be on the threshold of a new kind of person, a person who is socially and psychologically a product of the interweaving of cultures in the twentieth century.
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The Making of a Mediator: Sun Tzu and the Art of War
Mediators and would-be mediators would do well to examine Sun Tzu because The Art of War is actually all about the art of using skillful strategies of intervention to minimize unnecessary confrontation and maximize gains that are within reach.
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Managing Scientific and Technical Information In Environmental Cases: Principles and Practices for Mediators and Facilitators
This effort represents ideas gathered from more than a hundred individuals as well as a review of some, though certainly not all, of the relevant literature. The document is an initial attempt to distill and disseminate those key principles and practices that are relevant to managing scientific and technical information in environmental conflicts. The authors hope to advance both the practice and theory of environmental mediation and to launch further thinking and discussion on the issues raised.
On Revenge
Despite our rage, not out of moral or humanistic belief but from practical experience, we also recognize that our anger unleashed will make the situation worse. The violence— at last count, some 6,714 innocent civilians missing or dead---– cannot be left unanswered. Conversely, we also know that doing what seems most simple and obvious will make matters far worse. It leaves us twisted and confused and stuck on the horns of a profound dilemma.
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Water, Science, and The Search for Common Ground
Intrinsically, natural resource disputes, whether they are "upstream" issues that involve policy formation or "downstream" matters that involve enforcement and compliance,
pose powerful challenges to civil societies.
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