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- Abraham Path An attempt to physically bridge the chasm between Islam, Christianity and Judaism
- Art not Hate A really interesting site about creative responses to conflict, especially artistic ones
- Benny's Blog Great site from an evangelical Christian Church of England/Episcopalian vicar old friend of mine Benny who is contesting Christian condemnation of homosexuality
- Correlates of War Project Excellent source of information on all forms of armed conflict
- Creating Reciprocity Great site about the role of empathy and reciprocity in conflict
- End of Economic Growth: Richard Heinberg Great site for information on why and how economic growth may be over; with profound implications for future conflict
- Equality Trust My old contact Richard Wilkinson’s data based site on economic inequality: an often missed vertical element in conflict
- Grist Organization I like the data driven approach of this environmental site
- Jerome Slater Really interesting Middle East expert and blogger with a mind of his own
- Josh Berer Interesting site on Arabic art by someone who has lived in the Yemen
- Less Wrong Blog A great introduction to different ways of thinking that takes account of recent research in biases and heuristics and how to be appropriately influenced by new information.
- Move Him Into the Sun A blog devoted to World War 1 war poetry with unusual selections and critical comment. Very generative
- Natasa in Malawi I am enjoying Natasa’s (from Slovenia) coming to terms with life and working for an NGO in Malawi.
- Peace Mapping A really useful site that shows visual ways to re-frame conflict
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- Right Brain Blogger A really interesting insightful blog on creativity and its blocks. Really powerful insights that will help in conflict, especially our internal conflicts
- Roger the Surf Blog on Climate Change from a Skeptics Viewpoint This blog is a monument to Confirmation Bias in the direction of Climate Change Skepticism. That said it has a lot of reference material some peer reviewed and is therefore a useful resource if you can get past the rhetoric of one of my correspondents.
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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:
