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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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Conflict and its lingering effects, examined by colleagues at Rutgers, should prove to be eye-opening to those who need to understand that it isn't only the immediate, present impact of conflict on the lives of people, especially young people, but its continuing impact on individual lives and community existence.
Restorative Justice is getting renewed interest and justifiably so. Punishment is not always, or solely, the sought-after remedy by those who are victims of violence. RJ gives victims a voice, a voice some do seek and may need. For Michelle Alexander, the author, here is the challenge: "If we invest our resources in the healing, restoration and rebuilding of relationships and communities--and stop pretending that caging people on a gargantuan scale makes our communities safer--we just might discover that we are capable of reckoning with one another."
Opinion | Reckoning With Violence
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We must face violent crime honestly and courageously if we are ever to end mass incarceration and provide survivors what they truly want and need to heal.Personality doesn't trump interests. Or, as the New York Times headline shouts: Big Egos and Bad Bets lead to no negotiated agreement. Why are we not surprised? No force of personality or ego is going to override an adversary's perception of interests. And, in this case, with decades of history and mistrust thwarting them, Kim and Trump were unlikely to make progress. No agreement on a peace declaration; no ban on producing more nuclear fuel, no signing ceremony, only promises to keep talking. At least there is that.
How the Trump-Kim Summit Failed: Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets
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President Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea had dramatically different visions of what “denuclearization” meant, dooming their deal.Afghan women are demanding a presence at the negotiating table; they don't want to return to the way the Taliban forced them to live. "We want peace," the women said, "but not at the cost of our rights." Of course they need to participate in the negotiations. After all they will implement the peace, they will live it.
700 Afghan Women Have a Message: Don’t Sell Us Out to the Taliban
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It was a rare sight, even after 18 years of progress in Afghanistan: a conference in Kabul where women discussed a potential peace deal with the Taliban.The judge’s order states that it behooves all involved, human and gorilla, to pursue mediation..... Gorillas are social primates; they live in groups and need to live with other gorillas, just as humans live with other humans. Humans, unlike gorillas, however, file lawsuits; gorillas try to cooperate instead. www.wvxu.org/post/judge-orders-cincinnati-zoo-gorilla-foundation-work-out-dispute#stream/0
Judge Orders Cincinnati Zoo, Gorilla Foundation To Work Out Dispute
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Updated Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. A judge in California is directing the Cincinnati Zoo and the Gorilla Foundation to work together on a solution to their dispute