“The Conflict of Politics and the Politics of Conflict: How to Think about Political Conflicts and Design Political Dialogues.”
Thursday, December 15, 2016
7:30 AM Hawai‘i Time (12:30 PM ET)
Kenneth Cloke will be hosting a fundraising webinar – all proceeds are tax deductible and will go to Mediators Beyond Borders International’s Dialogue Process Project (DPP).
The US has just gone through an exhausting election, filled with hostility, hatred and personal attacks; and while half the country is upset and disappointed that they lost, the other half understands that it could have gone the other way, and that they might now be the ones feeling upset and disappointed. The problem is, citizens haven’t figured out yet how to talk to each other about our political ideas and beliefs, or discuss our disagreements in ways that might lead to learning, win/win outcomes, increased empathy, mutual understanding and joint problem solving. Yet we are all citizens of the same country and we all care about its future.
The webinar will address how we begin to talk to each other about difficult and dangerous issues—the ones that we all feel strongly about and argue passionately over. Kenneth recommends open, honest, skillfully-designed, capably-facilitated dialogues as a method to thinking about political conflicts and decisions.
Kenneth Cloke is a mediator, arbitrator, coach, consultant and trainer, specializing in resolving complex multi-party disputes, including marital, divorce, family, grievance and workplace disputes, collective bargaining, organizational, public policy, and school conflicts, and designing preventative conflict resolution systems. He has worked in over 20 countries, and is founder and first President of Mediators Beyond Borders International. He has published 10 books—most recently Conflict Revolution: Designing Preventative Systems for Chronic Social, Economic and Political Conflicts.
Your ticket ensures that the DPP team can continue to respond rapidly to requests to train local mediators and facilitators and enable them to resolve community disputes, design and facilitate public dialogs and function within their country as a resource for underserved communities in resolving disputes through community dialogs, mediation and restorative justice.
Get your $25 ticket here– all proceeds support MBBI’s Dialog Process Project.
