Category: Conflict Theory

People often ask me to spell out the difference between accommodating and avoiding. Or, as some say: “Accommodating is an...

Introduction: Conflicts happen when one party believes that another damaged or diminished their interests. When we take these beliefs to...

What is the balance in business vs. values in negotiation? Watching this years World Cup has been different but the...

Conflict Management Coaching Blog by Cinnie Noble Hello: Here are my conflict resolutions for 2023. Again, I have had to...

In this episode, Ian interviews ODR Pioneer Daniel Rainey, a principal in Holistic Solutions, Inc. (HSI ), and an adjunct faculty...

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Dorcas Quek Anderson, Assistant Professor in Singapore Management University’s School of...

Why does one organization have a very adaptive culture while another has a culture that lives in the past? Is...

Colin Rule interviews Jim Melamed at Cyberweek 2021 -- Nov 1, 2021 https://youtu.be/RG8Vd5GuAZM

Ethan Katsh, interviewed by Colin Rule, for the International Council of Online Dispute Resolution (icodr.org) and Mediate.com -- August 6,...

More and more, we are a connected world.  So when it comes to intercultural communication...Is it what you say? Or...

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews David Allen Larson, Professor of Law at the Mitchell Hamline School...

It seems that everywhere one looks, there is an implicit bias lurking behind the scenes.   While recently, it was the...

Interested in issues like pay equity, pay transparency, salary negotiations, and the role of gender and unions? Then, this video...

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

The October 2022 edition of Mediate.com's Great Reads Book Club: "Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing...

It’s time for mediation to claim its place as a stand-alone profession freed from being just an alternative to the...

Since the early 1970s, two dimensions of the TKI have been used to plot the five conflict modes: Assertiveness and Cooperativeness (my...

https://youtu.be/4PcXmhnfFWg Keynote Discussion with Prof. Richard Susskind, IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (https://www.susskind.com/), presented...

In this episode Laura interviews Jan Gerrit Voelkel, who is a Ph.D. Student in Sociology at Stanford University. Jan's research...

Question:  Where does conflict come from? Answer: Normal, unconflicted life. Building on Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat’s classic article describing the...

Conflict Management Blog by Cinnie Noble “For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views...

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.” Lily Tomlin Forgiving is complex. Among other things, forgiveness means being...

In the old days, before the 1900s, it was mostly a person’s physical skills that were brought into the workplace…skills...

REGISTER NOW Mediate.com is excited to announce our Mediation and Mental Health Conference, September 28-30, 2022! See the Conference Agenda! This...

So often we embark on a difficult communication or react to a conflict situation by trying to discuss it before...

Here is a far-reaching question: What causes conflict? In particular, does conflict largely stem from differences within and between people?...

In May 2019, I posted a blog about a plaintiff who challenged a parking ticket on the grounds that chalking her tires...

What is the Post Babel Era? The narrative of the tower of Babel is an etiology or explanation of a...

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

When we think about the kinds of emotions people experience in conflict, we usually think of negative ones like anger...