Conflict Resolution_Management

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Mediation for Movements: Managing Intra-Movement Conflict

Explore how movements can manage internal conflict when it inevitably arises as they seek to build broad-based pro-democracy coalitions of active, passive, and unlikely allies.

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The Neutrality Trap : Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change (Book)

The message at the heart of The Neutrality Trap is that, when it comes to the important social issues that face us today, avoiding conflict is a mistake.

Leaderful Organizing Tool: Conflict Icebergs

Conflict Icebergs is a leaderful organising tool allowing us to understand conflicts and find empowering perspectives within them.

Pathways to Repair: Guides to Navigate Healing, Trust building and Human Messiness

These resources from the Pathways to Repair project discuss the challenges of navigating relationships and resolving conflicts within communities, highlighting the need for pathways to repair and reduce harm.

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Social Identity and Group Norms

Videos and overviews of group norms and social identity within the context of understanding conflict between groups.

SNAP: Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: An Action Guide

A strategic framework for activists, peacebuilders, and organizers working to transform violent conflict and advance a just peace.

Beautiful Action Trainer Modules (BATMo): Resources for Nonviolent Action Trainers

People Power, Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Action NVA Trainers and Facilitators – Lists of training activities from Beautiful Trouble.

Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit

Security & safety practices, Verbal De-escalation, Office and Organizational Safety, and Security for events and actions by Vision Change Win.

When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance

Understand when to talk and when to fight with this model for talking about conflict, negotiation and resistance.

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We Will Not Cancel Us: Book Review

Review of the booklet We Will Not Cancel Us – And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown. Discusses transformative justice approaches as an alternative accountability measure to ‘canceling’ individual harm-doers.

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Transformative Approaches to Conflict Resolution

This article introduces some of the key concepts of transformative justice and provides links to a wide array of resources. Transformative justice describes a systems approach to identifying root causes of conflict and responding to these as a community.

Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacekeeping Trainers’ Manual

Training resources by Pt’chang for practical ways to intervene in violence, to transform conflict and to build peace.

Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacebuilding Handbook

Resource for activists engaged in work for peace including practical ways to intervene in violence, to transform conflict and to build peace.

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Strategic Questioning Manual: A Powerful Tool for Personal and Social Change

Strategic questioning is a powerful tool for social change which helps people discover their own strategies and ideas for change.

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Tips on How to Give and Receive Feedback

Giving and receiving feedback is a core skill for people engaged in social change projects. These slides and related text outline what can maximise or minimise the effectiveness of feedback and useful phrases.

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Consensus Decision Making

Consensus is a nonviolent decision-making process that aims to create the best possible decision for the group. The input and ideas of all participants are gathered and synthesized to arrive at a final decision that is acceptable to all. Through consensus, we are not only working to achieve better solutions, but also to promote the growth of trust and respect within the group.

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On Conflict and Consensus

Making collective decisions and navigating conflict and are core activist skills. Conflict is usually viewed as an impediment to reaching agreements and disruptive to peaceful relationships. However, it is the underlying thesis of Consensus that nonviolent conflict is necessary and desirable.

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Principles of Co-operative Conflict Resolution

Navigating conflict is a core activist skill. These tips from peacebuilding have the potential to depolarise and de-escalate tense and challenging situations. This is an excerpt from the Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacebuilding Trainers’ Manual which is also available for download on the Commons.

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De-escalate, Manage and Transform Conflict

Many conflicts get worse than they actually need to be because the participants lose control of themselves and retreat into self-reinforcing patterns of attack and counterattack. Here are some suggestions, drawn from the literature of conflict resolution and psychotherapy, that can be used to de-escalate conflicts.

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Giving and Receiving Feedback

‘Feedback’ is a communication to a person or a group which gives that person information about how they affect others. It is important to be able to give feedback in such a way that people can hear it, take it in, evaluate it, and change behaviour which affects their relationship with others.

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