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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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In conflicts of this kind, where there are legitimate claims in contention, it's apparent that there is a compelling need for alternative dispute resolution processes for finding resolutions that will work.
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In ‘Lobster War,’ Indigenous Canadians Face Attacks by Fishermen
A battle over the lucrative lobster industry in Nova Scotia has become the latest flash point in a series of abuses of Indigenous people in Canada.www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/world/americas/mexico-water-boquilla-dam.html
Negotiating the exchange of water between two countries is not unique to Mexico and the United States but this particular one, long a strained one, but worse, now due to rising temperatures and long droughts. Shared rivers along the border are more valuable than ever, intensifying the stakes for both nations.
The dam’s takeover is a stark example of how far people are willing to go to defend livelihoods threatened by climate change — and of the kind of conflict that may become more common with increasingly extreme weather.
‘This Is a War’: Cross-Border Fight Over Water Erupts in Mexico
Farmers in Mexico ambushed soldiers and seized a dam to stop water payments to the United States, in a sign of growing conflict over increasingly scarce resources.Lisa Grande looks to be a very promising president of the United States of Peace!
Lise Grande Named New President and CEO of the U.S. Institute of Peace
(Washington, D.C.) The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Board of Directors has unanimously selected Lise Grande to be the Institute’s new president and CEO. Grande, a senior American UN offic...Trying to end a seemingly endless war, the sons of the fathers who fought against the Soviets in the 1980s, and then suffered through four decades of violence and loss among themselves, are sitting together in Qatar, to see whether they can make any progress. But, lasting peace will take more than just having Afghans agree. Civil wars that have proxy involvement are the most difficult, and the Afghan war has Americans, Pakistanis and Saudis with a compelling presence. What contributes to a certain degree of optimism is exhaustion. "Everyone is tired--everyone just wants to silence the guns....We need to learn from the past, we need to be careful in the future..."
At Afghan Peace Talks, Hoping to End Their Fathers’ War
The children of the war against the Soviets carry legacies of loss and determination — and their own generation’s crimes — as they meet to try to break a cycle of devastation.Opening their first negotiations in three decades, two hostile nations, technically at war, having no formal diplomatic relations, show how it can still be possible to talk when the interests of both are clear. Their maritime boundary, which is in a patch of the Mediterranean Sea that is rich with natural gas, needs to be resolved to have stability, security and prosperity for both nations.
Lebanon and Israel, Officially Enemies, Agree to Talks on Sea Border
The negotiations will be their first on nonsecurity issues in three decades but officials do not expect them to lead to peace talks.