The Mediator’s Cultural Assumptions

A brief article clarifying how North American definitions of mediation may produce crucial points of tension when directly exported to other cultures, as well as suggesting factors for mediators to consider when moving between different cultural settings.

Conflict Transformation: A Working Definition

A table exploring the descriptive and prescriptive ways of understanding conflict transformation across four dimensions: personal, relational, structural, and cultural.

Foreword, Satyagraha and Nonresistance

The foreword to Satyagraha and Nonresistance, which explores tensions and resonances between the Anabaptist notion of nonresistance and Gandhian views of nonviolence.

Prescriptive/Elicitive Training

A diagram illustrating the spectrum of training approaches in conflict resolution from purely prescriptive to purely elicitive.