Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict
Transformative Mediation
Helen Chauncey explores the similarities between transformative mediation and their coexistence work.
Ray Shonholtz describes the San Francisco Community Boards which use what is essentially a transformative mediation process, though the began their work long before that term was invented.
Silke Hansen talks about how parties' increased understanding of the other side's perspective can transform conflict dynamics.
Silke Hansen talks about how the mediation process can change parties' relationships, which is of primary importance in transformation mediation.
Susan Dearborn suggests that when people with similar values disagree over an issue, it may be useful to highlight their common principles.
Roy Lewicki describes how frames can be transformative.
Andrea Strimling, Commissioner, International ADR, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, describes teaching a course for young adults in South Africa in which art and music proved a powerful means to create dialogue.
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We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -- Luciano de Crescenzo
Other Resources from Beyond Intractability Reconcilliation in Bosnia How was peace acheived in Bosnia? Is the settlement working? Has reconciliation really been achieved?
Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Though nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times, Gandhi never received the award. Yet, his practice of nonviolent social action and humanitarianism enduringly provides history with one of the most poignant examples of the peaceful change that one individual can inspire.
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