Restorative Justice: A Working Guide for Our Schools "The purpose of this publication is to provide support and guidance for teachers, health workers, community leaders, and school personnel who seek to implement...
Conflict Assessment
Conflict Assessment
Cate Malek
Research Assistant, Conflict Research Consortium
University of Colorado
Definition:
Conflict assessment is the...
When to Arbitrate
When to Arbitrate
Chris Honeyman
President, CONVENOR
Director, Broad Field Project
Definition:
The decision as to whether to use arbitration, rather than...
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Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.
- Kenneth Boulding
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
- Booker T. Washington
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
- African Proverb
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
- Benjamin Franklin
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
- Mark Twain
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas Edison
I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
- William E. Gladstone
Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.
- Mark Twain
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
- William E. Gladstone
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
- Leo Tolstoy
Empathy is the biggest negotiation tool. I must try to understand where the other person's coming from to make points for my side.