Category: Politics

In this episode, Laura interviews Tamsin Parnell, a linguistics researcher whose doctoral work focuses on identities, discourses, and division around...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvVjpc5xMRk With the United States mid-term election coming up, I've been thinking quite a bit about political polarization and what...

You are invited to participate in and contribute to an online discussion of how those with conflict resolution and peacebuilding...

In this episode, Laura interviews Professor Aleksandra Cichocka, Professor of Political Psychology at the University of Kent School of Psychology....

Originally published on Indisputably The news media have a well-known bad-news bias.  If something bad is happening or – better...

Heidi and Guy Burgess have long focused on how society – and our field – can deal with intractable conflicts. ...

Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes $392 billion of federal investments in energy and climate policies, reflects a...

Can the TKI Conflict Model (i.e., the five conflict modes along with the assertiveness, cooperativeness, distributive, integrative, and protective dimensions) shed some...

That’s the title of an article by New York Times reporter Max Fisher.  He summarizes, “By most measures – with one glaring...

Every ending is just a new beginning. We just don’t know it at the time.  Mediators inhabit this strange world...

I.      Into the Fray   The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem....

Elder Frustration The term “elder frustration” is used to describe frustration that adult children, caregivers and sometimes professionals experience when...

“[I]t was impossible to have a proper grasp of humanitarianism, culture, and democracy if one endorsed [the Nazi] conception, or...

“In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.”  All issues are political issues, and politics...

Global Mediation Development: Developing Cultures of Mediation             Chair: Tara Ollapally Members: Obi-Farinde Morenike, Bruce...

“[Partisan demagoguery] agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments...

We have taken democracy for granted, and allowed it to be undermined and chipped away by elected officials, for whom...

“Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to...

First published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (cleveland.com/opinion) on Dec. 11, 2020.Even after the election results are finalized and the...

Reprinted from the article here.The world is watching one of the most divisive periods in American history. Right against left,...

Civility, respect, understanding, and the willingness to listen. These are core conversational virtues that are universally appreciated. What’s interesting is...

Globally, as waves of nationalism and existentialism begin to unsettle democratic institutions, as ideologies driven by hatred conspire to digitally...

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”    Martin Luther King, Jr....

From Pollack Peacebuilding BlogBackground & Theory: Democracy allows for people of different beliefs to resolve their differences peacefully, often requiring...

Originally published in the Wiley Online Library. The Tragedy of Social Learning When the Learning is Anti-Social It is always...

Originally published in the Wiley Online Library. In Getting Disputes Resolved (Ury, Brett, and Goldberg 1988), we pointed out that...

Originally published in the Wiley Online Library. Introduction The world of conflict, negotiation, and public policy mediation has markedly changed...

Originally published in the Wiley Online Library.Trump’s Advice to Negotiators In his earlier career, Donald Trump was a successful builder...

Originally published in the Wiley Online Library.Review of Martin E. Latz. "The Real Trump Deal: An Eye-Opening Look at How...

Read the 2nd part in the series here:Disgust and fear are primary affects for the right, while a benign sense...