• for: conflict resolution - Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Toda Peace Institute, Lisa Schirch, 5 point peace plan

• title: 5-Point Peace Plan to Protect Civilians, Address Trauma, Invest in Democracy, and Dismantle Hamas and the Israeli Occupation

• author: Lisa Schirch

• date: Nov 2023

• Abstract

  • There is no military solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
  • A just political solution is essential.
  • This article expands the narratives of what is necessary at this moment when too many simply say “there is no other way” or “ceasefire” which both leave many questions unanswered.
  • This 5-point peace plan identifies a range of strategic principles and bridgebuilding processes to protect the safety and ensure the democratic freedoms of both Israelis and Palestinians.
  • It emphasises the shared humanity and traumas of both Palestinians and Jewish Israelis.
  • A sustainable peace will require that journalists and political leaders use their power to focus on
    • protecting civilians,
    • dismantling Hamas,
    • ending occupation,
    • addressing trauma, and
    • investing in democracy.

• for: conflict resolution, peace in the middle east, Israel & Gaza

• title: Israel & Gaza, a call to nuance

• author: Jeremy Courtney
• organization: https://www.humanite.org/
• reference: https://peacemakers.beehiiv.com/p/israel-gaza
• summary
• A nice perspective piece that transcends the typical Israel vs Palestine dualism and looks deeper to see what it is that the majority of people want on BOTH sides.
  • It casts the true enemy not as Palestinian or Israeli, but as those on BOTH sides who are trapped in seeing violence as the only way out.
  • Unfortunately, those who currently dictate the narrative are those (usually male) figures who advocate for violent solutions. They are the minority who subdue the majority through aggression and military might. Somehow, we must find a way around this asymmetry.
  • It's not an exclusive OR condition, either Palestinians are the enemy or Israel is the enemy. It's an AND condition, and only applies to the warmongering subset of the population

• for: quote, quote - conflict resolution, quote - Israel / Palestine conflict

• quote

  • For “The West”, all deference must be given to Israel.
    • Calling Palestinians innocent is tantamount to
      • Holocaust denial.
      • A hate crime.
  • For the “Muslim World” and various anti-colonial, global liberation movements, all deference must be given to Palestine.
    • Calling Israelis innocent is
      • colonialist.
      • Racist.
      • Nakba denial.
      • A hate crime.
  • We need a better way.
• author: Jeremy Courtney

• date: Oct 9, 2023

• comment

  • the world is far more complex than these simplifications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono

• for: doppleganger, conflict resolution, deep humanity, common denominators, CHD, Douglas Rushkoff, Naomi Klein, Into the Mirror World, conspiracy theory, conspiracy theories, conspiracy culture, nonduality, self-other, human interbeing, polycrisis, othering, storytelling, myth-making, social media amplifier -summary
  • This conversation was insightful on so many dimensions salient to the polycrisis humanity is moving through.
  • It makes me think of the old cliches:
    • "The more things change, the more they remain the same"
    • "What's old is new" ' "History repeats"
  • the conversation explores Naomi's latest book (as of this podcast), Into the Mirror World, in which Naomi adopts a different style of writing to explicate, articulate and give voice to
    • implicit and tacit discomforting ideas and feelings she experienced during covid and earlier, and
    • became a focal point through a personal comparative analysis with another female author and thought leader, Naomi Wolf,
      • a feminist writer who ended up being rejected by mainstream media and turned to right wing media.
  • The conversation explores the process of:
    • othering,
    • coopting and
    • abandoning
  • of ideas important for personal and social wellbeing.
  • and speaks to the need to identify what is going on and to reclaim those ideas for the sake of humanity
  • In this context, the doppleganger is the people who are mirror-like imiages of ourselves, but on the other side of polarized issues.
  • Charismatic leaders who are bad actors often are good at identifying the suffering of the masses, and coopt the ideas of good actors to serve their own ends of self-enrichment.
  • There are real world conspiracies that have caused significant societal harm, and still do,
  • however, when there ithere are phenomena which we have no direct sense experience of, the mixture of
    • a sense of helplessness,
    • anger emerging from injustice
  • a charismatic leader proposing a concrete, possible but explanatory theory
  • is a powerful story whose mythology can be reified by many people believing it
  • Another cliche springs to mind
    • A lie told a hundred times becomes a truth
    • hence the amplifying role of social media
  • When we think about where this phenomena manifests, we find it everywhere:

• for: art for healing, art for conflict resolution

• for: lifetime student, student universalis
• definition: student universalis
  • student of life
• comment
  • the perspective of the student universalis is:
    • I search for truth
    • truth through ideas is an ideal that I can never reach
    • I only have nearer and nearer approximations to it
    • I realize that all my ideas are tentative, provisional and temporary
    • I can replace an old idea with a new one through my own discovery or when others share their discovery with me
    • I will not be biased in my search for truth, whether it is from the youngest child or a perceived foe
    • I will not hesitate to share my truth if it is open to being received by others
    • there is no conflict, only the search for truth together

• Take a deep breath and pause
• when you feel your body

• ramping up for a fight.

• COMMENT

  • Recentering oneself back to calm
  • reduce the cortisol release on yourself
  • dissipate the feeling of being threatened

• Insulting others and suggesting someone is ignorant or misinformed,
• no matter how misguided their beliefs may be, ,- will cause the people you are trying to influence to reject your argument.

• Instead, try asking questions that lead the person to question what they believe.

• COMMENT

  • Good conflict resolution involves not triggering release of cortisol in the other and planning then in a threatened state

While she may not have coined the phrase "win-win", Mary Parker Follett's process of integration described in her book Creative Experience (Longmans, Green & Co., 1924) forms the basis of what we now refer to as the idea of "win-win" conflict resolution.

Follett's ideas about power over and power with also stem from Creative Experience as well.

1. Those using the power-over, power-with distinction include Dorothy Emmett, the first woman president of the British Aristotelian Society, and Hannah Arendt; Mans- bridge, ‘‘Mary Parker Follet: Feminist and Negotiator,’’ xviii–xxii.

Syndication link: - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Win%E2%80%93win_game&type=revision&diff=1102353117&oldid=1076197356

Dhami, Mandeep & Olsson, Henrik. (2008). Evolution of the interpersonal conflict paradigm. Judgment and Decision Making. 3. 547-569. http://journal.sjdm.org/8510/jdm8510.pdf