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Q+A: Belle Abaya
October 27, 2011 — Earlier this year, Philippines-based conflict resolution organization, The Conflict Resolution Group Foundation (CoRe) started a campaign entitled Transformative Cells (T-Cells), aimed at building face-to-face communication skills among young people.
Meta-Culture: Changing the Culture of Discourse
July 20, 2010 — Last week, we were thrilled to announce that one of our partners in the field of conflict resolution, India-based Meta-Culture, has been chosen to receive the Outstanding Leadership Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution.
Meta-Culture: Working on Dialogue and Conflict Resolution in India
Over the past five years, the Public Conversations Project and India-based Meta-Culture have been partners in the field of Conflict Resolution, learning from each other’s experiences in bringing dialogue to new conflicts, cultures, and populations.
Knowing the “Them”
The ramifications of conflict first truly resonated with me in the winter of 2008-2009. I was sitting in a small café in a suburb of Tel Aviv, studying for the exams that would wrap up my six-month-long program in Israel. My friend suddenly turned her computer towards me, brushing aside scattered note cards and study guides, to display the breaking headlines of violence in the Gaza Strip.
Do You Have Your Dialogue License?—Feb. 11, 2010
This morning I was driving to work behind a “student driver” car going exactly the speed limit (which is to say, at least 15 mph slower than traffic usually moves on that particular road). I started to get impatient, but then I thought I’d try to use the time to notice things around me, breathe, be mindful, and all of that.
Keeping it in the Family—Dec. 1, 2009
Why can't family businesses disputes be addressed via traditional modes of conflict resolution? A colleague of the Public Conversations Project, Ashok Pannikar, answers this question in an interesting article in the Indian online journal Newzfirst. Ashok, the founder and executive director of Meta-Culture Consulting in Bangalore, notes that the conflicts that attend generational succession in family businesses frequently arise from impaired relationships.
