Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict
Introduction:
Nancy Ferrell, private mediator and trainer, talks about how family members get caught up in destructive patterns of interaction in an effort to save face.
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Common Patterns of Destruction
Nancy Ferrell
Private mediator and trainer
People get on a track and they
don't know how to get off of it. I have people in mediation that if I were a
counselor I would be telling them you need to get back together, I mean, what
are you doing here? But they've gotten themselves on a track and they don't know
how to get off. They don't know how to stop the bus. And to save face, they keep
going and neither one of them really wants that, but they don't know how to say
to the other one, let's rethink this.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Longfellow
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Emily Green Balch Former International President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and 1946 Nobel Peace Laureate
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