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An opening exercise for mediation training that seeks to illuminate cultural understandings around navigating conflict and mediation.

A tool to facilitate the discovery and creation of mediation models that may be implicit in a culture.

Five operating principles underpinning the basic philosophy of the peacebuilding conceptual framework.

An exercise to encourage reflection and practice of deep listening.

An exercise oriented toward creating a safe space for proactive dialogue and increased understanding of people’s experiences, fears, and expectations on diversity, race, and gender.

A description of a practice oriented toward cultivating noticing and attentive awareness through the senses.

A diagram representing the circular process of conflict transformation through inquiry around the presenting situation, horizon of the future, and development of change processes.

A chart comparing the perspectives of conflict resolution and conflict transformation on various aspects of conflict analysis.

A matrix mapping questions to hold in the movement from reaction to reform to transformation of crises/issues across scales of intervention from the individual to the systemic.