Category: Public Policy

Chapter One of Eye of the Storm Leadership: Guerilla Bridge Building.

Gracias a los editores de eMediacion por compartir este artículoIntroducción Los años dedicados a la práctica de la mediación en...

The U.S. presidential run-up is a time to think about politics, conflict and leadership. The collective challenges we face --...

The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator Barack Obama’s speech on race in Philadelphia, as provided...

Introduction If you are a “leader” in any sense of the word, the ideas, stories, quotes, and exercises that follow...

The current U.S. presidential election is a great time to think about the relationship of politics, conflict and leadership. The...

A recent article, “Attack Iran,With Words,” by Reuel Marc Gerecht, appeared in the New York Times (OP-ED page, Feb. 20,...

Presidential candidate Barack Obama's main political message represents the absorption of the mediation movement's essential themes at the highest level...

History may record the current presidential campaign as a turning point in how we think about leadership, choose a leader,...

Unresolved public discontent has the potentials to graduate into a major dispute. And no democratic government will like to have...

I. Introduction Mediation has been shown to be effective in thousands of domestic environmental dispute cases in the US, Israel...

No han sido pocos los e-mail recibidos de colegas interesándose por la situación de La Mediación y la salida laboral...

“When big things are at stake, the danger of error is great. Therefore, many should discuss and clarify the matter...

Between November 2005 and June 2007, a team from The Keystone Center helped organize and implement a multiparty negotiation process...

Originally published as Vol 1, Nos 1&2 of Gini Nelson’s Engaging Conflicts Today. A free subscription to the newsletter is...

Keystone Conference Resources Keystone Conference DVD Print Final Conference Report Consolidating Our Collective Wisdom Best Counsel and Advice to the...

Related Video 1. Consider the “law of unintended consequences”—what we sometimes think is good turns out differently and sometimes the...

Related Video There are three media trends affecting conflict resolution—the bad, the good, and those that we do not know...

Related Video Social and Cultural Trends related to media/technology: The continuing globalization of culture, with cultural blurring and morphing. An...

Almost ten years ago, we did a workshop showing film clips from popular films we thought were relevant to negotiation...

SECTION 1. PREAMBLE Problem. This administration and those that follow will continue to face the challenge of balancing competing public...

Alternative Dispute Resolution: What is it? Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is an emerging tool for finding good solutions to complex...

Source: The Policy Consensus Initiative (PCI) The PCI builds and supports networks that provide states with leadership and capacity to...

“A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.” - George Santayana Resolving complex, highly political, public policy issues...

“Policy Dialogues” are a form of conflict resolution. They are used in regulatory, standard-setting, rule-making, and policy forming settings in...

Most individuals find themselves intrigued at some emotional or intellectual level by stories that offer insight about a particular aspect...

A few months back, a dialogue occurred on one of the dispute resolution list servers. A contributor, in his comments,...

Social rejection of developmental projects that impact the environment is becoming more common in Mexico. This is costing the country...

We may never attain a participatory democracy and it may not be desirable to eliminate our system of representative governance,...

The Maine Woods are no stranger to environmental controversy: clearcutting, loss of jobs to Canada, habitat preservation, hunting and fishing...