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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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An important venture, a collaboration of peace-builders, diplomats and scholars, gathering at the USIP, on October 24, 2018. The agenda and a breakdown of sessions in included in this post.
PeaceCon 2018: The Power of Collective Action
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Eminent members of the peacebuilding community, diplomats, scholars, business leaders, military strategists and other specialists will gather from hundreds of organizations across dozens of countries at this first day of PeaceCon2018. Participants will broaden their networks and hear new thinking fr...The Declaration for Civil Dialogue comes to us from the Peace Alliance that encourages citizens to educate, advocate and mobilize. CNCR encourages readers to sign.
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The ability of parties to solve conflicts through peaceful means--cooperation--reduces the need to turn to private or public means of coercion: "Free societies rest on a bedrock of informal conflict resolution and the skills necessary to make that happen may well be developed through forms of unsupervised childhood play. Declaring such play to be too risky is a decision fraught with risk, both to the well-being of children and to the societies they will inhabit as adults."
Steven Horwitz offers essential and provocative insights on the critical elements of liberal democracy and how citizens are prepared for it.
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Unsupervised childhood play is how children learn the sort of informal rule-making and rule-enforcing that is so critical to a liberal society’s attempt to miniPartners for Democratic Change encourage us to attend the International Day of Peace in New York City.
Peace Day Invite - PartnersGlobal
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This is well worth a read and to consider actions that can be taken to advance peace in the world.
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The Peace Day Challenge exists to raise the profile of the International Day of Peace and to affirm peace as a real alternative to the violence we see every day in the news. It is all about inspiring a day of action on September 21, focused on building peace through real-life activities and sharing....