Category: Politics

In this episode, Laura engages in a riveting conversation with Anne Ikiara, the Executive Director of the nonprofit Digital Action....

It is no secret that the American government is mired in ideological gridlock. It does not seem to be a...

In this episode, learn about Stanford PhD candidate Luiza Almeida Santos' research into fostering empathy across political divides.  Listen if...

In this episode of the ICODR podcast Ian interviews Irene Sigismondi, attorney at Law, a trainer and a contract professor at...

In this episode, meet Dr Benjamin Abrams, who has just released his brand-new book about mass mobilizations called "The Rise...

Recently, I reread three books that, as a total set, inspired me to revisit my understanding of human nature and,...

Shoot it down! This was the rallying cry of Republicans all last week after a large balloon identified by US...

Hopefully, the Corona Virus Pandemic (CVP) is fading into our rearview mirror. However, with new variants unfurling, and other countries...

I had come up with an idea: what if I get Jane to agree to have us try a process...

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

The 2022 World Cup pageant is being staged in Doha of Qatar, and all interests and attentions are riveted to...

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...

In this episode of The Tipping Point Podcast, Laura interviews Rob Fersh and Monika Glowacki of the Convergence Center for...

The June 22 CPR Council meeting featured a presentation on Abraham Lincoln and dispute resolution by the International Institute for Conflict...

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....

Another episode from Mediate.com's Great Reads Book Club: Grade Lum talking about his book "America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service...

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...