“The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.” DoeCreativeConflictOrganizationResponseTempting Book:The change agent Source: The change agent
“The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.” WorldGivingWarStatesUnitedMoralUnited StatesGroupsHavensConflictStandingThreatResponseCriminalsTerroristAround The WorldRestraintSpyTotal War Author:Edward Snowden
“Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would curse us: It is not only for their sakes but to preserve our own soul from its natural response toward hatred.” IfsSoulChristianEvilLostNaturalGreaterBattleConflictHatredAngryResponseSakeBitterPreservesCurseBlessGreater Good Book:The Power Of Covenant Prayer Source: The Power Of Covenant Prayer
“The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.” HumansAbleNumbersEconomyEnvironmentBalanceConflictDiseaseStressResponseAncientComplicatedHuman LifeTrafficWork Life BalanceLife BalanceStressorsFamily ConflictWork And Life Balance Author:Andrew Bernstein
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.” WarPeaceCreativeViolenceConflictResponseAbsenceAlternativesResolutionAggressivePassiveRespondingUbuntuConflict ResolutionMediationPeace JusticeWin WinAchieving PeaceViolence And PeacePassive Aggressive Author:Dorothy Thompson
“As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qaida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.” MaySelfMatterStatesUseLawForceUnitedUnited StatesConflictResponseInternationalDefenseConsistentAlsInherentSelf DefenseTalibanInternational LawArmed Conflict Author:John O. Brennan
“For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.” IfsWorldTryingRealWholeProcessConflictStandingThirdsResponseRewardsEndlessRealizationCollaborationHypothesisStewardshipHarmoniousStandpointElusiveDisappointingWithdrawalMirages Author:Alan Watts