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Aung San Suu Kyi Turns 65 June 18th
As Myanmar prepares for its upcoming elections, a sense of concern and tension is in the air. Many fear that there will once again be political unrest, resulting in widespread arrests from...
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Happy July 4th, 2010
Listen to Walt Whitman’s voice on July 4th weekend: This is a 36-second wax cylinder recording of what is thought to be Whitman’s voice reading four lines from the poem “America.” For more information...
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Web Clip: Jonathan Haidt on “The New Science of Morality”
Web Clip: “The New Science of Morality”, from www.edge.org: “Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on samples drawn entirely from Western,...
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Empathy and Humankind
According to its website, For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social...
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Walking from No to Yes
From ted.com: an elegant, simple (but not easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations — from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East. Please watch this 18 minute video of...
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A Send-Up of the Royal Wedding
If this video spoof of the forthcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is good enough for Brian Galbraith’s blog Ontario Family Law Blog, it’s certainly good enough for mine!
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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, a Tribute to the Crazy Ones
Below is the first video, though it was never broadcast, in the Apple ad campaign, ‘Think Different’. Steve Jobs himself does the voice-over and unquestionably now belongs among the greats who are...
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Transformative Dialogue Highly-Effective in Ethno-Political Conflicts
In this post yesterday on his blog, Dan Simon draws from a White Paper by Erik Cleven published by the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation to review the three basic reasons...
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Forgetfulness
As far as I can remember(!), this poem has nothing to do with mediation and conflict, but more with the aging process and our common fate. It’s beautifully read here by its author, Billy Collins....
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When adult children return home
Brian Galbraith over at Ontario Family Law Blog had an informative post yesterday related to child support provisions in Ontario: What is alarming for divorced parents is that in Ontario you cannot...
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