Morning walks ❤️

The second edition of this conflict classic is starting to see the light of day under the expert guidance of conflict guru Roger Mac Ginty. As you can see from the advanced reviews, there are other reasons than my chapter on global mediation to get your copy 😉

Of incremental behavioral changes in conflict negotiation and "reformed sinners" 😉 My column in this morning's Herald newspaper ☕️

Anyway, you should have your hat on...

(the art of the wonderful Michael Leunig)

The conclusion of our brief series on anger as a constructive emotion in our conflicts. My column in today's Herald newspaper 📰 ☕

Due for publication in the next few months- the second edition of the iconic Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding. A striking new cover for this essential conflict studies textbook. My essay on mediation is one of the chapters in the book - one of my favorite writing projects of the year

How can we constructively manage our anger in our professional or personal conflicts? Conflict with your morning coffee-my column in the Resolving Conflict series in today's Herald newspaper ☕️

I am pleased to have contributed a chapter on mediation to the second edition of the 
iconic Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding, out later this year. It is edited by one of my professional heroes and inspirations, Prof Roger Mac Ginty from Durham University 

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

Albert Camus

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ​

Arthur C. Clarke

Good night from Ella and Coltrane. Time to switch off the puppy power

Friday....whatever o'clock ☕️

Love, in spite of it all

From the wonderful Michael Leunig

Two little rescues...Ella and Coltrane
- dogs of CoSo

The importance of reading 😉

[W]e were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth …

​Toni Morrison