Category Archives: Conflict Processes

Systematic step by step disciplined processes for conflict handling

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Posted on November 9, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

There is a lot wrong with the world and in recent years there have been some great campaigns to highlight this. Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change protests. But to be effective they need a parallel movement of … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Reality and the Market System

Posted on October 28, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

The likely sad reality is that the masses of the people (that’s us) don’t really and seriously see the problem. Don’t see the climate change catastrophe coming our way or if they do, are too busy in the day to … Continue reading →

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Democracy versus Plutocracy

Posted on October 2, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

I have some really good sane conservative friends and we have good debates. One of them was saying Democracy was an ambiguous term. I responded with this: Democratic is not really an ambiguous term. It is to me at least: … Continue reading →

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Choice Architecture and Being Wrong

Posted on October 1, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

For years now two of my lines of study have been around what I call Choice Architecture, especially around conflict handling as per this blog: how the deliberate framing of choices by the market place, by capitalism and by the … Continue reading →

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The Afghanistan Situation

Posted on August 29, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

The Pundits are rampant at the moment on the situation in Afghanistan. I am somewhat insulated from the optics as I don’t watch TV, haven’t since 1989. Reflecting on it all: my view:• I think it was likely unavoidable to … Continue reading →

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Failure

Posted on June 25, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom
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Oh We Did It: Tao Te Ching

Posted on June 25, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

“True leaders are hardly known to their followersNext after them are the leaders the people know and admire;after them those they fearafter them those they despiseTo give no trust is to get no trustWhen the work is done right, with … Continue reading →

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The Solution

Posted on June 25, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

As a conflict professional, I find conflict endlessly fascinating. There is this guy thing (though women do it too). Presented with a complex emotional situation with say their partner, they try to “solve” it. Walk past all the emotion and … Continue reading →

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The Errors of the Products of Elite Universities

Posted on May 19, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

The various postmortems on the handling of the Pandemic are reinforcing my Personal Rule that very smart highly credentialed people from elite universities (who encourage this behavior and fail to really educate) often use their smarts not to open mindedly … Continue reading →

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Finite and Infinite Games

Posted on March 21, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

I have always liked James P Carse book “Finite and Infinite Games”. He defines a Finite Games, as ones where we play by the rules; and Infinite Games as ones where we play with the rules. I lean the latter. … Continue reading →

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