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- My name is Jason Simon. I am a writer and facilitator, helping others navigate conflict, communicate more effectively, and create new ways of engaging others while embracing an attitude of openness towards difference.
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- Open to Difference
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution, Conflict Resolution
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- Research, Training
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Tele-seminar on Culturally-Adapted MHPSS in Haiti and for Haitian-Americans
March 19, 2010 from 1pm to 4pm – New York City + Remote Distance Learning
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USAID, Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day, online collaboration event, that will bring together individual socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world
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Nonviolence In The Context Of War Or Armed Conflict
June 18, 2010 at 6pm to July 5, 2010 at 7pm – Kurve Wustrow
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Bologna, Italy Symposium on Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Reconciliation
June 19, 2010 to July 17, 2010 – Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center
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Dear Rosebell, I'm part of this too! See you soon at SA!
with love,
Fer
what a great intitiative,count me in
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Nice to meet you.
I received a M.S. in Conflict Analysis & Resolution at GMU; it was a good program. As for my post, I certainly agree that degrees of understanding are possible and do happen. However, one of my favorite professors once said, "truth like beauty lies in the eye of the beholder." In other words, no two people experience or view the world in the exact same way. It seems to me that no matter how much common ground can be found, difference still remains. I am specifically interested in drawing upon human difference; using it to create something altogether new -in a conflict resolution sense.
In terms of "from afar," I have always been curious about the role of researchers, politicians etc... conducting research on concerned parties to a conflict from afar. For example, the U.S. studying Israel-Palestine...
I wonder what it is like to be be given recommendations or told what to do from people who study and discuss in a classroom setting thousands of miles away? Should answers come from within, those participating and directly affected by the conflict, or those studying it from afar? Maybe both? Just thoughts...
Look forward to discussing more with you :) I have been posting more at my opentodifference.com website.
One cannot seek to resolve a conflict unless they understand it. And if they are to understand it they must analyze it. in terms of where did it start, factors and actors int that conflict and who influences or influenced what.
I don't see one more appropriate than the other. Instead the resolution purely depends on understanding the conflict. When you talk of a conflict being analysed from a far I beg to know more what you mean.
As for where does a conflict begin its not always simple, it could lead us to centuries before the conflict reached its height.
Examples are the Rwandan genocide and many others. This varies but one thing is for sure the end to conflict can be visible. although people tend to think when the guns go silent then conflict is ended. We all have conflicts in our societies even where the world judges us as democratic, free, equal there's still war raging in peoples hearts becuase we with use of arms we have overlooked other forms of conflicts.
I am interested in the course you've done and George mason is one of the schools am looking at though i still have to figure out scholarship issues.
Let me what you think about my views.
All the best.
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Thank you for responding. I will download an application and contact you if I have any questions.
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