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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Top Thirty Conflict Tips from the Great Thinkers
Over recent months we have posted some Top Ten Tips from great thinkers over conflict handling. We thought a consolidated list might be useful: Conflict is the essence of life and we have to get over our conflict allergy (Heraclitus) … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict Processes, Neuro-science of conflict, PERSONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION: CREATIVE STRATEGIES, Philosophy of Conflict, Top Ten Conflict Tips from Great Thinkers, Uncategorized, Ways to handle conflict
Tagged better ways to handle conflict, conflict processes, great thinkers on conflict, philosophers of conflict, top 30 conflict tips, top ten conflict tips
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Egypt: the Eye of the Storm
I am not an expert on the unfolding situation in Egypt and other countries of the middle east. But I suppose it reminds me of what a very unjust distribution of income and wealth exists in some many countries of … Continue reading
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
In these days of such intellectual conflict over economic issues, I have a confession: before I saw the light, I trained as an economist. Well actually as an economic historian too, and that did it. As economics became ever more … Continue reading
Top Ten Smart but not Wise Public Figures
Having set up the distinction between smart and wise people in an early blog, I thought it might be fun to put our personal top ten people who best illustrate the concept: Henry Kissinger for the unwise (not to say … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change denial, Greenspan, Israeli lobby, Kissinger, Murdoch, Obama, Smart but not wise, Thatcher
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The Top Ten Ways to Uncover Donald Rumsfeld’s Unknown Unknowns
Though it has been cited as tortuous English language, the smartest thing that Donald Rumsfeld, the former US Secretary of Defense ever said ( and that is relevant to the realities of conflicts) was probably: There are known knowns; there … Continue reading
Conflict Resolution Strategy: The Neuroscience of Empathy in Conflict
There is a great piece in yesterday’s UK Guardian newspaper about the neuroscience that underlies the Conflict Model of this blog. The piece is about the French essayist Michel de Montaigne, who during the dangerous disorder in 16th century France, … Continue reading
Art not Hate
I was pointed to a really interesting website very much in line with the approach of this blog at: http://blog.artnothate.com/ Take a look: