Monthly Archives: January 2011

Top Thirty Conflict Tips from the Great Thinkers

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

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 →

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Egypt: the Eye of the Storm

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

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 →

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23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

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 →

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Top Ten Smart but not Wise Public Figures

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

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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The Top Ten Ways to Uncover Donald Rumsfeld’s Unknown Unknowns

Posted on January 25, 2011 by

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 →

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Conflict Resolution Strategy: The Neuroscience of Empathy in Conflict

Posted on January 23, 2011 by

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 →

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Art not Hate

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

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:

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Conflict Resolution Strategies: New York City: The Perfect Cure for Xenophobia (ξένος φόβος)

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

The Greeks they say had a word for everything. And they came up with xenophobia: fear of strangers or foreigners. It seems to me that at the heart of the recent upsurge in a certain form of conservatism, specifically the … Continue reading →

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Getting Real versus Data Delusions

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

Reverse engineering from pre-conceived conclusions back to selective data is lethal in conflict as in life. It may be impossible, even undesirable, not to have some preconceptions but if so, we should know what they are, and go looking for … Continue reading →

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John Bolton Gets Henry Kissinger Award for Unwise Smarts

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

I was amazed by the insanely partisan piece by John Bolton (famous in this blog for his ‘kiss up, kick down’ leadership style that his former bosses loved) in today’s Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f413f6fe-2316-11e0-ad0b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1BQZLMhSF He starts off rightly worrying about the … Continue reading →

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