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Welcome to the Web site for the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (CNCR). The Center is part of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, located at Civic Square, New Brunswick, New Jersey. CNCR is at the forefront of a movement that believes disputes can be settled by constructive negotiation and consensus-building and problem-solving approaches instead of by force or adversarial argument.
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How to make efforts at assisting peace work? Look to local organizations, local people to assist.
English Analysis on World about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding; published on 20 Dec 2019 by ZIF
"Mediation and Governance in Fragile Contexts" introduces an innovative and practical approach to resolving an enduring issue: How can conflicts be resolved in polarized societies?
The authors lay out the framework, present case studies that show it in action, and explain how interim peace structures can act as a bridge between short-term mediation and long-term state-building efforts around the world.
The book argues that mediation is effective to the degree it is contextualized and linked to governance-building efforts.
Mediation and Governance in Fragile Contexts: Small Steps to Peace
In this ETH podcast, CSS' Simon J. A. Mason and Kaltuma Hassan Noorow, daughter of the late Kenyan mediator Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, talk about their mediation experiences in Kenya and Switzerland. They...It's remarkable but not really surprising to find cooperation in full display in Senegal as women find themselves in charge of their lives....and deciding to rely on one another to survive.
"Women have united and prevailed. In Magali, wives of migrants garden together, sharing harvests and lending one another money. They are led by Safy Diakhaby, 28, whose husband left for Europe when she became pregnant 11 years ago.
She had urged him to go. He has sent home enough cash to build a concrete home, but not enough to support the 21 people in her compound.
She hired a crew of men to work the fields, and knowing that they might be reluctant to listen to a woman, she cooks lunch as an incentive. She stores peanuts to sell when the crop is out of season and scarce. She shares her bounty with other struggling women.
'If we don’t help each other, we all suffer,' Ms. Diakhaby said."
Left Behind by Migrant Husbands, Women Break the Rules and Go to Work
Wives are shocking their traditional West African villages by earning money and running large households while their husbands are in Europe seeking jobs.The latest report from Consensus Building Institute has some very encouraging information about its successes in attracting people into collaborative processes and finding that they work.
CBI's vision is a world in which the most difficult challenges are solved through collaboration. CBI is employing four critical elements of its breakthrough collaboration framework – trust building, creativity, negotiation, and joint action – to support stakeholders who are facing what seem like intractable disagreements on a public issue. These ingredients are powerful catalysts for collaboration.
Although women often bear the greatest burden during times of war, they are also often leaders on the path to peace. Women have played key roles in ending and preventing conflict, but their efforts too often go largely unrecognized. And so it's particularly noteworthy to see the United States Institute of Peace create a Women Build Peace Award. USIP is aiming to see that their efforts become visible and acknowledged.
Invaluable, Yet Too Often Invisible: Time to Recognize Women Building Peace
On a recent visit to Colombia, I visited a deeply moving space for reconciliation, Fragmentos, where the guns of the FARC have been hammered into a beautiful rippling floor by many of the women who su...