The Hyper-Polarization Challenge to the Conflict Resolution Field
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Rosa Zubizarreta-Ada, Ph. D. authored From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A User's Guide to Dynamic Facilitation and teaches this empathic approach internationally. With a few decades as an organization development consultant, and earlier professional experience in education and social work, Rosa completed a dissertation on the Citizens' Councils in Vorarlberg, Austria -- a democratic innovation which was institutionalized at the state level in 2013.
Our inability to constructively handle intractable conflict is the most serious, and the most neglected, problem facing humanity. Solving today's tough problems depends upon finding better ways of dealing with these conflicts. More...
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Constructive Conflict Initiative
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Links to thought-provoking articles exploring the larger, societal dimension of intractability.
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