conflict

  • A couple weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to apply for an opportunity to speak at the annual South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) next March with my thesis advisor Dave Snowden. This is a massive opportunity to share my thesis work on structural conflict transformation and SenseMaker® with a large group of people and I

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  • Before we get any further: I did not watch the Republican debates tonight. Like most Americans, I just caught the important moments through the outraged Facebook posts of my friends and CNN’s “Everything you need to know about the Republican Debate in 90 seconds.” In a media landscape dominated by soundbites, I got everything I

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  • Trump: A Smack of Reality

    Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he would like to ban Muslims from entering the United States has been the latest plot point in the dying life of the US empire. The reactions from the polarized political spectrum were typical: leftists warning to take the problem seriously or risk the easy rise of fascism within the

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  • “Conflict work is public service. The reward is to do it well.”

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  • Camelot: Seat of Empire Project Camelot was an ambitious study-project that almost came into existence in late 1964. However, on July 8th, 1965, the program was cancelled by the Secretary of Defense of the United States due to a 35-year-old whistleblower who had recently founded the first academic institute for peace research at the University

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