Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts

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This work requires meeting with all sides to a conflict, including violent people designated as foreign terrorist organizations.

The Patriot Act calls all of this work into question. It makes peacemaking and humanitarian efforts with the most violent people in the world illegal. The very thing that the US government professes to want the most, peace, has been made illegal. President Jimmy Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, could be indicted and convicted by the government he once led, for his personal peacemaking efforts. Doug Noll is an attorney that focuses on peacemaking and moderation rather than litigation.

He is the author of several books and gives tips on negotiation, peacemaking, and conflict transformation. Wisdom Magazine's Monthly Webzine Login Register Wisdom Magazine is also one of the country's largest free holistic publications with , copies printed bi-monthly in three regional print editions.

Wisdom is dedicated to opening people's hearts and minds to the philosophies, products and services of the new millennium. Excerpt from "Elusive Peace: Call Us Toll Free: Wisdom Magazine's Monthly Webzine. Wisdom Magazine is also one of the country's largest free holistic publications with , copies printed bi-monthly in three regional print editions. The Atlantic Philanthropies are dedicated to bringing about lasting changes in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people. Atlantic is a limited-life foundation that makes grants through its five program areas: About the John Templeton Foundation.

The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality.

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The Foundation supports research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgiveness, love, and free will. It encourages civil, informed dialogue among scientists, philosophers, and theologians and between such experts and the public at large, for the purposes of definitional clarity and new insights. The Purpose Prize is a program of Encore. Founded in , Prison of Peace trains inmates serving life sentences in California prisons to be peacemakers, mediators, mentors and trainers.

The goals of the project are:. Doug Noll, award winning mediator and co-founder of the Prison of Peace Project, has been retained by the Restorative Practices staff of the Fresno Unified School District to bring the skills and techniques he and colleague Laurel Kaufer refined in maximum security prisons to school sites.

Noll started training teachers in June and will pick up again during the fall, training teachers how to learn and model emotional intelligence to students. The project started in June, just last month, with 30 middle school teachers. On August 4th, I am training 12 school principals.

As the new school year begins, I will be training high school and middle school teachers in the McLane High School cluster. They learned how to deeply listen by ignoring the words of the student. However, our experience in maximum security prisons demonstrates that this skill can transform lives in amazing ways. We expect even better results at school sites.

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From that research Noll and Kaufer developed a listening technique that allowed trained inmate to de-escalate an angry peer in 90 seconds or less. Recognizing the power of the skills, Noll is now training school teachers to be able to de-escalate an emotional, angry student in 90 seconds or less while remaining completely calm and in control—a much needed process in the public school climate today.

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Doug conducts a comprehensive course on listening and de-escalating anger at https: The online course includes modules, videos and a workbook. People say it changes their lives and relationships. Its Pure Magic offers skill building not taught in traditional classrooms. These skills are often counterintuitive to the way most people are trained to communicate.