Deborah is very inclusive and supportive in our learning and understanding how our thoughts and behaviors can be changed to help us have better outcomes in our conflicts.
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The Cassandra File, opinion without impartiality
The Cassandra File contains my opinions
Here, I take a stand without professional impartiality. I named this category after a prophet who wasn’t believed, even though she was correct.
In Greek myth, the god Apollo desired Cassandra. To woo her, Apollo gave her foresight into the future. Cassandra spurned him despite his great ‘gift’. In revenge for her refusal, Apollo cursed her that her prophecies, although always correct, would never be believed.
While I’m not always correct like Cassandra, I enjoy using Conflict Analysis, my special interest, to speculate about how things are, how they got to be that way, and what should be done about them.
- Six lessons from failure (12/24/2021)
- Policies, Publics, and Protests (7/28/2021)
- A Conflict Analysis of Radical Freedom (1/10/2021)
- Are judges losing the art of being persuaded? (10/1/2020)
- The convictions of one’s courage (9/18/2018)
- Hashtag expiry dates on important issues (5/11/2018)
- 11th reason to thank the Trolls (3/12/2018)
- 10 reasons to thank the Trolls (3/3/2018)
- How to make the choices better? (4/1/2013)
- Conflicts and health are frozen accidents (3/17/2013)
- Professionalization of Conflict Resolvers (8/12/2012)
- Relationships matter as much as technology (10/22/2010)
- Conflict Analysis of Theory of Mind (4/25/2010)
- Pandemic panic conflict (11/1/2009)
- Keeping girl babies alive is conflict prevention (6/30/2009)
- Good Manners = Good Conflict Management (5/7/2009)
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