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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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Hoping that the truce leads to a permanent peace in Yemen.
U.N-Brokered Hudaydah Truce Is Big Step in Yemen War
nytimes.com
In the biggest step toward peace in years, the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels have agreed to leave the port city, a major conduit for humanitarian aid.My Rutgers colleague, Brian Ferguson, a professor of anthropology on the Newark campus, writes of his research regarding 'news' that human beings are not "hard-wired" for war.
We Are Not Hardwired to Go to War
news.rutgers.edu
There is no scientific proof that humans are hardwired to go to war, despite the age-old belief that war is just part of human nature. Read about the research Rutgers-Newark professor of anthropology R. Brian Ferguson published in Scientific American and find out why he believes that the eventual er...Why are some societies so violent? And, can they be made safe? Rachel Kleinfeld offers some provocative thoughts on these critical questions in her new book. This link leads readers to a discussion with her courtesy of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Why Are Some Societies So Violent, and Can They Be Made Safe?
carnegieendowment.org
The world’s most violent places aren’t at war. They are polarized, unequal democracies. Here’s how to make them safer.We need a new approach to our foreign policy regarding post violent civil strife, one that echos the previous post about investing to build local communities, one that recognizes the need for cohesion, for incentives to minimize nationalist stridency and incentivizes diverse communities that aim to build and sustain common purpose. We can learn from our errors in Bosnia, where the divided nation exists not in peace but in a state of non-war, with separate schools, separate facilities, separate services and a tri-partite presidency. Our eagerness for an election soon after the cease fire served to confirm allegiances rather than to move to a more unified nation. Differences are small, as Muslims, Croats and Serbs speak the same language, look the same and mostly eat the same food; the differences, however, are made large by nationalist political leaders who are deeply corrupted by the system that had enriched them.
The lesson of Bosnia is more than one for our nation's foreign policy; it is a lesson for domestic European nations and the United States. Extreme nationalism in Bosnia, one that turns people inward and against "the others" should serve as a warning to us.. The warning that Bosnia's absence of peace has for the world is a vivid one: excessive nationalist, political posturing divides communities, provides platforms for surrogate conflicts (between Turkey and Russia, for example), undercuts efforts to develop a common economy, to educate young people, to invest in local communities. The World Bank--and others--need to do more to incentivize unity.
In Bosnia, Entrenched Ethnic Divisions Are a Warning to the World
nytimes.com
Long after a vicious civil war, persistent ethnic and nationalist fissures are paralyzing the country. “We have moved backwards, not forward,” says a Muslim firefighter.We need a new approach to our foreign policy regarding post violent civil strife, one that echos the previous post about investing to build local communities, one that recognizes the need for cohesion, for incentives to minimize nationalist stridency and incentivizes diverse communities that aim to build and sustain common purpose. We can learn from our errors in Bosnia, where the divided nation exists not in peace but in a state of non-war, with separate schools, separate facilities, separate services and a tri-partite presidency. Our eagerness for an election soon after the cease fire served to confirm allegiances rather than to move to a more unified nation. Differences are small, as Muslims, Croats and Serbs speak the same language, look the same and mostly eat the same food; the differences, however, are made large by nationalist political leaders who are deeply corrupted by the system that had enriched them.
The lesson of Bosnia is more than one for our nation's foreign policy; it is a lesson for domestic European nations and the United States. Extreme nationalism in Bosnia, one that turns people inward and against "the others" should serve as a warning to us.
In Bosnia, Entrenched Ethnic Divisions Are a Warning to the World
nytimes.com
Long after a vicious civil war, persistent ethnic and nationalist fissures are paralyzing the country. “We have moved backwards, not forward,” says a Muslim firefighter.