The second edition of this conflict classic is starting to see the light of day under the expert guidance of conflict guru Roger Mac Ginty. As you can see from the advanced reviews, there are other reasons than my chapter on global mediation to get your copy 😉
05:08 PM - May 16, 2024
Of incremental behavioral changes in conflict negotiation and "reformed sinners" 😉 My column in this morning's Herald newspaper ☕️
03:12 AM - May 03, 2024
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, “here and now,” without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.
Ortega y Gasset
Ortega y Gasset
05:15 AM - Mar 24, 2024
Anyway, you should have your hat on...
(the art of the wonderful Michael Leunig)
(the art of the wonderful Michael Leunig)
02:00 AM - Mar 03, 2024
The conclusion of our brief series on anger as a constructive emotion in our conflicts. My column in today's Herald newspaper 📰 ☕
02:25 AM - Mar 01, 2024
My column in today's Herald newspaper continues our series on dealing with anger in our professional or personal conflicts. Conflict with your morning coffee ☕️
11:21 AM - Feb 23, 2024
Due for publication in the next few months- the second edition of the iconic Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding. A striking new cover for this essential conflict studies textbook. My essay on mediation is one of the chapters in the book - one of my favorite writing projects of the year
03:08 AM - Feb 21, 2024
How can we constructively manage our anger in our professional or personal conflicts? Conflict with your morning coffee-my column in the Resolving Conflict series in today's Herald newspaper ☕️
02:01 AM - Feb 16, 2024
I am pleased to have contributed a chapter on mediation to the second edition of the iconic Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding, out later this year. It is edited by one of my professional heroes and inspirations, Prof Roger Mac Ginty from Durham University
08:10 AM - Feb 06, 2024
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
02:15 PM - Feb 02, 2024
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
02:50 AM - Jan 20, 2024
We have ceased to be the poetry lovers we once were, the aficionados of ambiguity and the devotees of doubt, and we have become barroom moralists. Does the thumb point upward? Does it turn down? … We are all now gladiators in the Coliseum of the Thumb.
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
08:53 AM - Jan 13, 2024
We’re all stuck here for a while, so let’s try to work it out.
Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt
10:39 AM - Jan 05, 2024
I wish you all a happy, healthy New Year. It seems to be one of those big, important years. Today, let's take stock and be grateful for the assets we have as we face the year - family, friends, our experiences, skills and energies, anything else that we can rely on. Let's help each other through❤️
12:05 AM - Jan 01, 2024
Some New Year's resolutions that you can actually keep...and benefit from. Conflict with your morning coffee...my column in the Resolving Conflict series in this morning's Herald newspaper ☕️
02:06 AM - Dec 29, 2023
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
07:34 AM - Dec 27, 2023
But effective conflict work requires a more sophisticated, nuanced, and complex approach that recognizes that in most instances, both sides of these polarities must be embraced, and we have to get past understanding them as contradictions.
Bernard Mayer
Bernard Mayer
05:26 AM - Dec 24, 2023
Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take
John Lewis
John Lewis
05:33 AM - Dec 10, 2023
The new pups, Ella and Coltrane, being introduced to daily walks, and the pink monster, Macbeth
04:18 AM - Dec 10, 2023
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
01:46 PM - Dec 08, 2023
What does your 2023 conflict audit tell you about your professional and personal conflicts during 2023?
Conflict with your morning coffee ☕️ My column in the Resolving Conflict series in this morning's Herald newspaper
Conflict with your morning coffee ☕️ My column in the Resolving Conflict series in this morning's Herald newspaper
02:16 AM - Dec 08, 2023
After losing half of our dogs through old age in the last 18 months, it was time for reinforcements. When my son's girlfriend found these two puppies in the street, we knew we couldn't say no to helping them. So, welcome to the family sister Ella (in black) and bro Coltrane (in brown)
08:23 AM - Dec 07, 2023
My Survival Guide for those holiday conflicts with family and friends will be published tomorrow, just in time for some conflict skills upgrades. This is a precursor to a few other publications and media interviews on the topic later this month
11:13 AM - Dec 03, 2023
3 Threaded Spouts
65 elections in 54 countries next year. From subtle to structural changes coming in some of the foundational ideas of the West, including the content and meaning of democracy, truth and privacy.
11:22 AM - Nov 29, 2023
By disrupting the narrative and logic of conflict, small acts of everyday peace can create space for civility, reciprocity, solidarity, and possibly more expansive concepts such as reconciliation.
Roger Mac Ginty
Roger Mac Ginty
11:55 AM - Nov 27, 2023
02:56 AM - Nov 25, 2023
Cities, by definition, are about conflict and contested space. It’s how you manage conflict that is the issue.
Paul Sweeney
#urbanconflict
Paul Sweeney
#urbanconflict
02:52 AM - Nov 25, 2023
And they walk past you everyday, one million stories, each waiting to be told. Waiting for you to ask. Because you live. But very few, love.
Iain S Thomas
Iain S Thomas
02:07 AM - Nov 25, 2023
Conflict with your morning coffee ☕️ My column in the Resolving Conflict series in this morning's Herald newspaper, this topic chosen by a reader. Some of our conflict options when we feel powerless
03:15 AM - Nov 24, 2023
