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We Have to Love More, Hate Less. We Got to Listen More and Talk Less.

Indisputably

These are words of Megan Rapinoe, star of the US Women’s Soccer team, which just won the World Cup.

She continued, “We got to know that this is everybody’s responsibility. Every single person here, every single person who’s not here, every single person who doesn’t want to be here. Every single person who agrees and doesn’t agree. It’s our responsibility to make this world a better place.”

Perhaps these are just corny, naive ideas. Certainly incomplete. But they touch me.

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John Lande

John Lande is the Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Law and former director of its LLM Program in Dispute Resolution.  He received his J.D. from Hastings College of Law and Ph.D in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He began mediating professionally in 1982 in California.… MORE >

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