Presented by Iddo Dror at the SEARCA Forum-workshop on Platforms, Rural Advisory Services, and Knowledge Management: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development, Los Banos, 17-19 May 2016
Conflict may be defined as a:
"sharp disagreement or opposition" and includes "the perceived divergence of interest, or a belief that the parties' current aspirations cannot be achieved simultaneously"
This document discusses how information technology affects negotiation behavior. It begins by defining negotiation and exploring a model of social interactions. It then examines how IT influences social behavior and trust in online negotiations. Finally, it proposes strategies for enhancing technology-mediated negotiations, such as initial face-to-face meetings or videoconferences to build rapport when fully online negotiation is necessary. The document concludes by noting that e-negotiation is not a replacement for traditional negotiation and that a blended approach may be most effective.
The document discusses five criteria for effective organizational communication: audience, strategy, methodology, ethics, and listening. It emphasizes that communication must be tailored to the audience, start at the top of the organization and flow down, use appropriate channels and media, and consider ethical standards. Effective communication leads to stronger relationships, greater influence, higher productivity and profits.
Communication processes are critical for achieving negotiation goals and resolving conflicts. During negotiations, parties communicate offers, motives, alternatives, outcomes, and explanations. There are three key questions about communication: whether parties are consistent or adaptive, what is said early matters, and more information does not always mean better outcomes. People communicate through language, nonverbal cues, channel selection, and social cues conveyed. Techniques for improving communication include asking questions, listening, and role reversal to understand other perspectives. Special considerations at the close include avoiding mistakes by tracking expectations and lessons learned, and achieving closure while retaining important information.
This document provides guidance for resident assistants (RAs) on mediation skills and conflict resolution. It defines mediation as a formal process that encourages face-to-face dialogue and problem solving with a facilitator to help parties communicate and reach a decision. The document discusses common ways people cope with conflict, the role of an RA as mediator and educator, different conflict management styles, and when mediation may be an appropriate option. It also outlines the mediation process and provides RAs with a "mediator's toolkit" to help facilitate mediations between residents.
This document discusses communication strategy and provides guidance on developing an effective strategy. It defines communication strategy as plans or methods to facilitate proficient communication. When developing a strategy, one should consider the communication objectives, style, and their credibility with the audience. A good strategy involves choosing the right communicator, understanding the audience, crafting an appropriate message, selecting the best communication channel, and being aware of cultural context. The document outlines factors to consider for each of these elements to help ensure an effective communication strategy.
This document outlines the key steps and factors involved in integrative negotiation. It discusses that integrative negotiation focuses on common interests rather than differences, addresses all parties' needs, and invents options for mutual gain. The main steps are to fully understand the problem by identifying all interests and needs, generate alternative solutions, and evaluate and select alternatives using objective criteria. Factors that facilitate success include a shared goal, problem-solving ability, understanding different perspectives, motivation to collaborate, trust, and clear communication.
This chapter discusses relationships in negotiation. It covers established approaches to researching negotiations within relationships, key elements like reputation, trust, and justice in managing relationships, and repairing relationships. Negotiations within relationships take place over time and aim to learn about the other party and increase interdependence. Trust, justice, reputation, and understanding the other party are important for managing negotiations within relationships.
Conflict may be defined as a:
"sharp disagreement or opposition" and includes "the perceived divergence of interest, or a belief that the parties' current aspirations cannot be achieved simultaneously"
This document discusses how information technology affects negotiation behavior. It begins by defining negotiation and exploring a model of social interactions. It then examines how IT influences social behavior and trust in online negotiations. Finally, it proposes strategies for enhancing technology-mediated negotiations, such as initial face-to-face meetings or videoconferences to build rapport when fully online negotiation is necessary. The document concludes by noting that e-negotiation is not a replacement for traditional negotiation and that a blended approach may be most effective.
The document discusses five criteria for effective organizational communication: audience, strategy, methodology, ethics, and listening. It emphasizes that communication must be tailored to the audience, start at the top of the organization and flow down, use appropriate channels and media, and consider ethical standards. Effective communication leads to stronger relationships, greater influence, higher productivity and profits.
Communication processes are critical for achieving negotiation goals and resolving conflicts. During negotiations, parties communicate offers, motives, alternatives, outcomes, and explanations. There are three key questions about communication: whether parties are consistent or adaptive, what is said early matters, and more information does not always mean better outcomes. People communicate through language, nonverbal cues, channel selection, and social cues conveyed. Techniques for improving communication include asking questions, listening, and role reversal to understand other perspectives. Special considerations at the close include avoiding mistakes by tracking expectations and lessons learned, and achieving closure while retaining important information.
This document provides guidance for resident assistants (RAs) on mediation skills and conflict resolution. It defines mediation as a formal process that encourages face-to-face dialogue and problem solving with a facilitator to help parties communicate and reach a decision. The document discusses common ways people cope with conflict, the role of an RA as mediator and educator, different conflict management styles, and when mediation may be an appropriate option. It also outlines the mediation process and provides RAs with a "mediator's toolkit" to help facilitate mediations between residents.
This document discusses communication strategy and provides guidance on developing an effective strategy. It defines communication strategy as plans or methods to facilitate proficient communication. When developing a strategy, one should consider the communication objectives, style, and their credibility with the audience. A good strategy involves choosing the right communicator, understanding the audience, crafting an appropriate message, selecting the best communication channel, and being aware of cultural context. The document outlines factors to consider for each of these elements to help ensure an effective communication strategy.
This document outlines the key steps and factors involved in integrative negotiation. It discusses that integrative negotiation focuses on common interests rather than differences, addresses all parties' needs, and invents options for mutual gain. The main steps are to fully understand the problem by identifying all interests and needs, generate alternative solutions, and evaluate and select alternatives using objective criteria. Factors that facilitate success include a shared goal, problem-solving ability, understanding different perspectives, motivation to collaborate, trust, and clear communication.
This chapter discusses relationships in negotiation. It covers established approaches to researching negotiations within relationships, key elements like reputation, trust, and justice in managing relationships, and repairing relationships. Negotiations within relationships take place over time and aim to learn about the other party and increase interdependence. Trust, justice, reputation, and understanding the other party are important for managing negotiations within relationships.
The document discusses strategies for preventing physical violence and resolving conflict in schools. It recommends integrating conflict resolution skills into the existing curriculum to foster communication, cooperation among students, and lower suspension rates. Peer mentoring groups can support negotiation, mediation, and help students develop communication skills to resolve disputes without violence. The strategies aim to cultivate emotional intelligence, positive relationships, and teach appropriate ways to deal with feelings and conflicts.
Civilian Protection and Violence Prevention with Local Communities in Conflic...Nonviolent Peaceforce
The document outlines the agenda and objectives of a one-day course on unarmed civilian protection (UCP) for UN representatives. The course aims to provide an overview of the key concepts, principles and strategies of UCP, and how it can be implemented to protect civilians and reduce violence in conflict areas. It covers the basics of UCP, its core work, and how UCP works in practice through proactive presence, deterrence, influence and encouragement to expand political space for nonviolent actors.
School conflicts such as intolerance, bullying, and violence can take many forms including clashes between individuals or groups, prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Bullying specifically refers to one person or group hurting another repeatedly to feel superior, and may be due to factors like appearance, abilities, race, religion, socioeconomic status, or other attributes. Victims of bullying can experience low self-esteem, poor academic performance, and even retaliate through more severe violence. High-profile incidents like the Columbine shooting show how unresolved conflicts can escalate dangerously. Surveys find that half of students in the Philippines report being bullied, highlighting that effective anti-bullying policies and education are needed.
The document lists feelings that people may experience when their needs are or are not being satisfied. Feelings of satisfaction include affectionate, compassionate, friendly, loving, and peaceful emotions. Feelings of dissatisfaction include afraid, confused, annoyed, angry, disconnected, embarrassed, fatigued, sad, and yearning emotions. The document aims to provide a comprehensive list of positive and negative feelings related to whether one's needs are met or not met.
This document lists evaluative words and phrases and maps them to corresponding feelings and needs in giraffes. It shows that evaluative words like "abused", "criticized", and "pressured" can elicit feelings like anger, fear and hurt in giraffes. The document also outlines corresponding needs like caring, respect, autonomy and safety. It aims to help understand how language that judges, diminishes or harms can impact well-being by disconnecting giraffes from their core needs.
This document outlines a framework for understanding human needs organized into four categories: survival, protection, connection, and meaning. It defines needs as universal resources required to sustain and enrich life, making no reference to how those needs are met. A key distinction is drawn between needs themselves and the specific strategies or behaviors used to meet those needs. The framework is inspired by the work of psychologists Marshall Rosenberg and Manfred Max-Neef.
Conflict can arise from opposing needs, values, and interests between individuals, groups, or organizations. There are various phases of conflict including a prelude, triggering event, initiation, and potential resolution. Conflicts in schools commonly involve pupils against pupils or pupils against teachers. Violence against teachers is a problem that seems to be increasing, with many teachers fearing for their safety at work. Bullying in schools can include direct physical or verbal aggression, as well as indirect aggression such as spreading rumors. Bullies often have characteristics like a lack of empathy and impulse control, while victims may have poorer social skills and feel isolated from peers. Schools where bullying occurs tend to have students who feel unsafe and a lack of trust and sense of
The document identifies three types of interpersonal conflict originally proposed by Gerald Miller and Mark Steinberg: pseudo-conflict, simple conflict, and ego conflict. Pseudo-conflict involves perceived conflicts that do not actually exist, while simple conflict is a difference of opinions where issues are clear. Ego conflict is the most difficult as it involves personal attacks and strong emotions. The document provides strategies for managing each conflict type such as focusing on issues rather than personalities, listening actively, and using problem-solving approaches.
There are several types of conflict discussed in the literature:
1) Cognitive vs affective conflict, with cognitive being task-oriented and affective being emotional.
2) Relationship, task, and process conflict, with relationship stemming from incompatibilities, task from disagreements, and process from disagreement over approach.
3) Content vs relational conflict, with content being about issues and relational being about individuals.
4) Denial of identity/needs, domination conflicts, and high stakes distributional conflicts which are particularly likely to cause intractable conflicts.
This document discusses organizational conflict and types of conflict. It defines conflict and describes its sources and different levels within organizations. The document outlines functional and dysfunctional conflict, explaining how functional conflict can benefit an organization through increased creativity and information sharing, while dysfunctional conflict hinders productivity and job satisfaction. Both the positive and negative effects of conflict are provided. The document concludes by describing procedures for resolving conflict, such as diagnosing the issue, using conflict handling modes like mediation, and mutual problem solving.
This document presents four choices for how to respond when hearing a difficult message: 1) Judgmental ears out - blame or criticize the other person; 2) Judgmental ears in - blame or criticize yourself; 3) Generative ears in - connect to your own internal feelings and needs; 4) Generative ears out - connect to the other person's feelings and needs by showing empathy. The goal is to choose generative responses that avoid judgment and instead understand different perspectives.
This document introduces the concept of Nonviolent Communication, which focuses on compassionate communication to fulfill human needs and foster understanding. It presents a circle diagram separating observations of facts from judgments, and feelings from requests to show how to have empathetic discussions that consider everyone's perspective to find a mutually agreeable solution.
The document describes various activities to teach nonviolent conflict resolution skills to students in grades 7-12. The activities address topics like anger, power, escalating vs de-escalating conflict, and include exercises like Concentric Circles, Conflict Escalator, Cornering, Fishbowl, and Hassle Lines. The goal is to help students reflect on personal experiences, practice communication skills, and identify behaviors that escalate or de-escalate conflict.
This document outlines key concepts around conflict and negotiation. It begins by defining conflict and outlining different views of conflict. It then distinguishes between functional and dysfunctional conflict, and describes the three types of conflict. The five stages of the conflict process are outlined, including potential opposition, cognition, intentions, behavior, and outcomes. Conflict management techniques are presented, along with distributive and integrative bargaining approaches. Cultural differences in negotiation styles are also briefly discussed.
This document discusses multiparty negotiations, which involve more complex dynamics than two-party negotiations due to additional parties, interests, and relationships involved. It outlines key stages of multiparty negotiations, including pre-negotiation where parties determine participants, form coalitions, understand alternatives to no agreement, and set the agenda. During formal negotiations, an appointed chairperson manages the process using tactics like enforcing ground rules and agenda. Information sharing and managing conflict are also important to reach effective agreements.
Branching Out: Engaging Forest Stakeholders through Collaborative DesigneolsenNFF
The National Forest Foundation (“NFF”) enlisted the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (“HNMCP”) to study stakeholder engagement in collaboratives that advise the United States Forest Service (“Forest Service”) in the agency’s stewardship of National Forest System lands.
This document provides an overview of effective stakeholder engagement through a two-day workshop. Day 1 focuses on stakeholder engagement fundamentals, identifying and analyzing stakeholders, leading stakeholders, and establishing connections. Day 2 covers engaging different personalities, aligning stakeholder groups, active listening and handling objections, and sustaining momentum. The workshop aims to deepen participants' skills as leaders through applying the science and art of stakeholder engagement to achieve shared outcomes.
After completing a training program on negotiation, customer centricity, and influence skills, participants should be able to:
1. Improve their negotiation abilities including understanding different negotiation strategies and planning successful negotiations.
2. Understand and implement customer-centric approaches by focusing on customer needs and building long-term customer relationships.
3. Enhance their influence and persuasion skills through understanding techniques like reciprocity, consistency, and using social proof to change attitudes.
This document outlines the key elements of developing emotional intelligence and effective communication skills. It discusses how emotional intelligence factors into life and career success more than raw intellectual skills alone. It also emphasizes the importance of skills like self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy and social awareness. The document then provides guidance on improving communication, listening skills, giving and receiving feedback, and working effectively in teams. It stresses managing reactions to change and influencing change processes positively.
Would you like to transform conflicts into conversations? Are you looking for new ways to settle disagreements in your workplace? Do you want to your employees to resolve their own conflicts? Mediation allows people to arrive at creative, win-win solutions based on what’s important to them. In this webinar, we’ll explore general mediation concepts and how you can productively apply them in your workplace. Whether you manage people or programs (or both), you’ll have the opportunity to apply a “mediator’s mindset” to the conflicts you currently face and recognize new possibilities for skill development, growth and change.
This document provides a trainer's manual for a basic mediation training program. The training comprises 11 sessions totaling 35 hours and is designed to teach mediation skills through a highly experiential approach, with approximately half the time spent in role plays. Key themes covered include party control, self-awareness, and diversity. Participants practice formal mediation role plays and are also given opportunities for informal mediation experiences. The goal is to equip participants with the communication skills and understanding of mediation processes needed to facilitate resolution in disputes.
Are unresolved conflicts affecting team functioning? Would you like to make conflict a source of growth for your team? Would like a road map to get there?
Managing team conflict effectively is the art of fostering trust, resolving conflicts as they arise and facilitating productive communication. Highly functioning teams can debate challenging topics, make tough decisions, and hold each other accountable for results.
The document discusses strategies for preventing physical violence and resolving conflict in schools. It recommends integrating conflict resolution skills into the existing curriculum to foster communication, cooperation among students, and lower suspension rates. Peer mentoring groups can support negotiation, mediation, and help students develop communication skills to resolve disputes without violence. The strategies aim to cultivate emotional intelligence, positive relationships, and teach appropriate ways to deal with feelings and conflicts.
Civilian Protection and Violence Prevention with Local Communities in Conflic...Nonviolent Peaceforce
The document outlines the agenda and objectives of a one-day course on unarmed civilian protection (UCP) for UN representatives. The course aims to provide an overview of the key concepts, principles and strategies of UCP, and how it can be implemented to protect civilians and reduce violence in conflict areas. It covers the basics of UCP, its core work, and how UCP works in practice through proactive presence, deterrence, influence and encouragement to expand political space for nonviolent actors.
School conflicts such as intolerance, bullying, and violence can take many forms including clashes between individuals or groups, prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Bullying specifically refers to one person or group hurting another repeatedly to feel superior, and may be due to factors like appearance, abilities, race, religion, socioeconomic status, or other attributes. Victims of bullying can experience low self-esteem, poor academic performance, and even retaliate through more severe violence. High-profile incidents like the Columbine shooting show how unresolved conflicts can escalate dangerously. Surveys find that half of students in the Philippines report being bullied, highlighting that effective anti-bullying policies and education are needed.
The document lists feelings that people may experience when their needs are or are not being satisfied. Feelings of satisfaction include affectionate, compassionate, friendly, loving, and peaceful emotions. Feelings of dissatisfaction include afraid, confused, annoyed, angry, disconnected, embarrassed, fatigued, sad, and yearning emotions. The document aims to provide a comprehensive list of positive and negative feelings related to whether one's needs are met or not met.
This document lists evaluative words and phrases and maps them to corresponding feelings and needs in giraffes. It shows that evaluative words like "abused", "criticized", and "pressured" can elicit feelings like anger, fear and hurt in giraffes. The document also outlines corresponding needs like caring, respect, autonomy and safety. It aims to help understand how language that judges, diminishes or harms can impact well-being by disconnecting giraffes from their core needs.
This document outlines a framework for understanding human needs organized into four categories: survival, protection, connection, and meaning. It defines needs as universal resources required to sustain and enrich life, making no reference to how those needs are met. A key distinction is drawn between needs themselves and the specific strategies or behaviors used to meet those needs. The framework is inspired by the work of psychologists Marshall Rosenberg and Manfred Max-Neef.
Conflict can arise from opposing needs, values, and interests between individuals, groups, or organizations. There are various phases of conflict including a prelude, triggering event, initiation, and potential resolution. Conflicts in schools commonly involve pupils against pupils or pupils against teachers. Violence against teachers is a problem that seems to be increasing, with many teachers fearing for their safety at work. Bullying in schools can include direct physical or verbal aggression, as well as indirect aggression such as spreading rumors. Bullies often have characteristics like a lack of empathy and impulse control, while victims may have poorer social skills and feel isolated from peers. Schools where bullying occurs tend to have students who feel unsafe and a lack of trust and sense of
The document identifies three types of interpersonal conflict originally proposed by Gerald Miller and Mark Steinberg: pseudo-conflict, simple conflict, and ego conflict. Pseudo-conflict involves perceived conflicts that do not actually exist, while simple conflict is a difference of opinions where issues are clear. Ego conflict is the most difficult as it involves personal attacks and strong emotions. The document provides strategies for managing each conflict type such as focusing on issues rather than personalities, listening actively, and using problem-solving approaches.
There are several types of conflict discussed in the literature:
1) Cognitive vs affective conflict, with cognitive being task-oriented and affective being emotional.
2) Relationship, task, and process conflict, with relationship stemming from incompatibilities, task from disagreements, and process from disagreement over approach.
3) Content vs relational conflict, with content being about issues and relational being about individuals.
4) Denial of identity/needs, domination conflicts, and high stakes distributional conflicts which are particularly likely to cause intractable conflicts.
This document discusses organizational conflict and types of conflict. It defines conflict and describes its sources and different levels within organizations. The document outlines functional and dysfunctional conflict, explaining how functional conflict can benefit an organization through increased creativity and information sharing, while dysfunctional conflict hinders productivity and job satisfaction. Both the positive and negative effects of conflict are provided. The document concludes by describing procedures for resolving conflict, such as diagnosing the issue, using conflict handling modes like mediation, and mutual problem solving.
This document presents four choices for how to respond when hearing a difficult message: 1) Judgmental ears out - blame or criticize the other person; 2) Judgmental ears in - blame or criticize yourself; 3) Generative ears in - connect to your own internal feelings and needs; 4) Generative ears out - connect to the other person's feelings and needs by showing empathy. The goal is to choose generative responses that avoid judgment and instead understand different perspectives.
This document introduces the concept of Nonviolent Communication, which focuses on compassionate communication to fulfill human needs and foster understanding. It presents a circle diagram separating observations of facts from judgments, and feelings from requests to show how to have empathetic discussions that consider everyone's perspective to find a mutually agreeable solution.
The document describes various activities to teach nonviolent conflict resolution skills to students in grades 7-12. The activities address topics like anger, power, escalating vs de-escalating conflict, and include exercises like Concentric Circles, Conflict Escalator, Cornering, Fishbowl, and Hassle Lines. The goal is to help students reflect on personal experiences, practice communication skills, and identify behaviors that escalate or de-escalate conflict.
This document outlines key concepts around conflict and negotiation. It begins by defining conflict and outlining different views of conflict. It then distinguishes between functional and dysfunctional conflict, and describes the three types of conflict. The five stages of the conflict process are outlined, including potential opposition, cognition, intentions, behavior, and outcomes. Conflict management techniques are presented, along with distributive and integrative bargaining approaches. Cultural differences in negotiation styles are also briefly discussed.
This document discusses multiparty negotiations, which involve more complex dynamics than two-party negotiations due to additional parties, interests, and relationships involved. It outlines key stages of multiparty negotiations, including pre-negotiation where parties determine participants, form coalitions, understand alternatives to no agreement, and set the agenda. During formal negotiations, an appointed chairperson manages the process using tactics like enforcing ground rules and agenda. Information sharing and managing conflict are also important to reach effective agreements.
Branching Out: Engaging Forest Stakeholders through Collaborative DesigneolsenNFF
The National Forest Foundation (“NFF”) enlisted the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (“HNMCP”) to study stakeholder engagement in collaboratives that advise the United States Forest Service (“Forest Service”) in the agency’s stewardship of National Forest System lands.
This document provides an overview of effective stakeholder engagement through a two-day workshop. Day 1 focuses on stakeholder engagement fundamentals, identifying and analyzing stakeholders, leading stakeholders, and establishing connections. Day 2 covers engaging different personalities, aligning stakeholder groups, active listening and handling objections, and sustaining momentum. The workshop aims to deepen participants' skills as leaders through applying the science and art of stakeholder engagement to achieve shared outcomes.
After completing a training program on negotiation, customer centricity, and influence skills, participants should be able to:
1. Improve their negotiation abilities including understanding different negotiation strategies and planning successful negotiations.
2. Understand and implement customer-centric approaches by focusing on customer needs and building long-term customer relationships.
3. Enhance their influence and persuasion skills through understanding techniques like reciprocity, consistency, and using social proof to change attitudes.
This document outlines the key elements of developing emotional intelligence and effective communication skills. It discusses how emotional intelligence factors into life and career success more than raw intellectual skills alone. It also emphasizes the importance of skills like self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy and social awareness. The document then provides guidance on improving communication, listening skills, giving and receiving feedback, and working effectively in teams. It stresses managing reactions to change and influencing change processes positively.
Would you like to transform conflicts into conversations? Are you looking for new ways to settle disagreements in your workplace? Do you want to your employees to resolve their own conflicts? Mediation allows people to arrive at creative, win-win solutions based on what’s important to them. In this webinar, we’ll explore general mediation concepts and how you can productively apply them in your workplace. Whether you manage people or programs (or both), you’ll have the opportunity to apply a “mediator’s mindset” to the conflicts you currently face and recognize new possibilities for skill development, growth and change.
This document provides a trainer's manual for a basic mediation training program. The training comprises 11 sessions totaling 35 hours and is designed to teach mediation skills through a highly experiential approach, with approximately half the time spent in role plays. Key themes covered include party control, self-awareness, and diversity. Participants practice formal mediation role plays and are also given opportunities for informal mediation experiences. The goal is to equip participants with the communication skills and understanding of mediation processes needed to facilitate resolution in disputes.
Are unresolved conflicts affecting team functioning? Would you like to make conflict a source of growth for your team? Would like a road map to get there?
Managing team conflict effectively is the art of fostering trust, resolving conflicts as they arise and facilitating productive communication. Highly functioning teams can debate challenging topics, make tough decisions, and hold each other accountable for results.
The document discusses conflict and negotiation. It defines conflict as disagreements that arise over goals or methods. There are different views of conflict, from seeing it as purely harmful to recognizing that it can have positive functions when managed constructively. Conflicts can be task-related, relationship-based, or about processes. The conflict process involves potential opposition, cognition and personalization of the issues, intentions to address it, behaviors used, and outcomes. Negotiation is the process of making joint decisions when parties differ and can use distributive or integrative strategies. Third parties like mediators or consultants can assist in negotiation. The document outlines factors to consider for different conflict-handling intentions.
Conflict Management- Organisational Behaviour-> MBA studentsKaran.G. Rao
This document discusses effective teamwork and managing conflicts within teams. It provides several key points on building effective teams, including clear communication, listening, addressing diversity, and resolving conflicts constructively. Conflicts can occur between individuals, within groups, or between different groups. The conflict process involves potential opposition, cognition and personalization of the issues, intentions to address it, behaviors during the conflict, and outcomes. Constructive conflict resolution requires identifying the source, looking beyond the surface issue, requesting solutions, finding agreements both sides can support, and reaching agreement.
Conflict arises from real or perceived differences and can range from mild disagreements to violence. There are two perspectives on conflict - the human relations view sees some conflict as natural and even beneficial, while the interactionist view encourages maintaining a minimum level of conflict. Whether conflict is good or bad depends on the type - functional conflict can improve group performance, while dysfunctional conflict hinders it. The conflict process has five stages - potential opposition, cognition and personalization, intentions, behavior, and outcomes. Negotiation is a process used to resolve conflict where two parties exchange to agree on terms, and can use either distributive or integrative bargaining approaches. When direct negotiation does not work, a third party such as a mediator, arbitrator
This document provides guidance on framing good queries for an online knowledge sharing community called EMPHASIS. It discusses including context, clearly stating the issue, writing a concise question, and adding a signature. The context gives background on the query poster and why the question is being asked. The issue describes the on-the-ground challenges being faced. The question is direct and focuses responses. Tips include speaking to the query poster to clarify details and drafting the query yourself. The goal is to present issues compellingly to engage community members in responding.
The document provides guidance on stakeholder engagement for sustainability and integrated reporting. It discusses emerging trends like measuring the degree of stakeholder engagement and expectations that companies will engage on broader issues. Effective stakeholder engagement requires identifying material issues and stakeholders, prioritizing them, defining engagement methods, and linking engagement to reporting and strategies. Engagement should be a two-way dialogue to understand diverse stakeholder needs and drive decision making. Following up after engagement through action, communication and accountability is important for building trust in the process.
Spider Writing Display Spider Writing, Fall ClassroSugar Murillo
Here are two examples of egoism in Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt":
1. The Hadley parents are more concerned with their own leisure time than properly supervising their children. They allow the nursery to raise and entertain the children so they can relax, showing they value their own comfort over their parental duties.
2. The children, Wendy and Peter, become so enthralled by the virtual African veldt created by the nursery that they no longer value real human interaction. They manipulate the nursery's settings to terrorize their parents just so they can stay in their make-believe world, demonstrating they only care about satisfying their own desires.
In both cases, the characters act in
Organizational learning involves facilitating continuous learning and transformation among all members of an organization. It requires systematically integrating and collectively interpreting new knowledge, which leads to collective action through risk-taking and experimentation. A learning organization recognizes that people are its most important asset and it takes commitment from all members to achieve organizational goals. Key aspects of organizational learning include problem solving, experimentation, learning from experience and others, and sharing knowledge throughout the organization. Building a learning organization involves cultivating personal mastery, examining mental models, developing shared vision, fostering team learning, and understanding systems thinking.
This document provides an overview of a presentation on dialogue and deliberation within companies. The presentation is divided into 7 parts that will discuss: 1) introducing the concepts of dialogue and deliberation, 2) the dialogue and deliberation program, 3) the steps of the process, 4) when it can be used, 5) guiding principles, and 6) conditions for success. It also describes a game where attendees role-play discussing going to the beach vs. countryside for holidays to demonstrate dialogue vs. debate approaches.
Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) are defined as semi structured group discussions, which yield qualitative data on the community level by facilitating interaction between participants.
Tools and tips to assist the development industry in undertaking best practice engagement. Explores the relationship between marketing, branding and engagement.
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EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...Sérgio Sacani
Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
Unlocking the mysteries of reproduction: Exploring fecundity and gonadosomati...AbdullaAlAsif1
The pygmy halfbeak Dermogenys colletei, is known for its viviparous nature, this presents an intriguing case of relatively low fecundity, raising questions about potential compensatory reproductive strategies employed by this species. Our study delves into the examination of fecundity and the Gonadosomatic Index (GSI) in the Pygmy Halfbeak, D. colletei (Meisner, 2001), an intriguing viviparous fish indigenous to Sarawak, Borneo. We hypothesize that the Pygmy halfbeak, D. colletei, may exhibit unique reproductive adaptations to offset its low fecundity, thus enhancing its survival and fitness. To address this, we conducted a comprehensive study utilizing 28 mature female specimens of D. colletei, carefully measuring fecundity and GSI to shed light on the reproductive adaptations of this species. Our findings reveal that D. colletei indeed exhibits low fecundity, with a mean of 16.76 ± 2.01, and a mean GSI of 12.83 ± 1.27, providing crucial insights into the reproductive mechanisms at play in this species. These results underscore the existence of unique reproductive strategies in D. colletei, enabling its adaptation and persistence in Borneo's diverse aquatic ecosystems, and call for further ecological research to elucidate these mechanisms. This study lends to a better understanding of viviparous fish in Borneo and contributes to the broader field of aquatic ecology, enhancing our knowledge of species adaptations to unique ecological challenges.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
The technology uses reclaimed CO₂ as the dyeing medium in a closed loop process. When pressurized, CO₂ becomes supercritical (SC-CO₂). In this state CO₂ has a very high solvent power, allowing the dye to dissolve easily.
Immersive Learning That Works: Research Grounding and Paths ForwardLeonel Morgado
We will metaverse into the essence of immersive learning, into its three dimensions and conceptual models. This approach encompasses elements from teaching methodologies to social involvement, through organizational concerns and technologies. Challenging the perception of learning as knowledge transfer, we introduce a 'Uses, Practices & Strategies' model operationalized by the 'Immersive Learning Brain' and ‘Immersion Cube’ frameworks. This approach offers a comprehensive guide through the intricacies of immersive educational experiences and spotlighting research frontiers, along the immersion dimensions of system, narrative, and agency. Our discourse extends to stakeholders beyond the academic sphere, addressing the interests of technologists, instructional designers, and policymakers. We span various contexts, from formal education to organizational transformation to the new horizon of an AI-pervasive society. This keynote aims to unite the iLRN community in a collaborative journey towards a future where immersive learning research and practice coalesce, paving the way for innovative educational research and practice landscapes.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defects
Power and conflict in innovation platforms
1. Power and conflict in innovation
platforms
Iddo Dror
SEARCA Forum-workshop on Platforms, Rural Advisory Services, and Knowledge
Management: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development, Los
Banos, 17-19 May 2016
3. Power asymmetries
• Power-relations exist, and can play a role, in every phase of the
platform process. It is important to recognize these power
dynamics and their effects
• System innovations often require
a change in power relations
between stakeholders and
associated institutions (which
often entails conflicts).
• Gender relations are often
characterized by strong power
dynamics and therefore should
receive explicit attention in
innovation processes
4. Relationships in the IP
Tonga
Ongoing tracking of relationships and
changing membership is important for
IP health
Research shows:
• Strong ties favour mutual learning
and resource sharing
• Weak ties favour spread of new
ideas
• Centralised network best for initial
phase of deciding on collective
action
• Decentralised network best for long
term planning and problem solving
5. Stakeholder Analysis Tools
Social Network Analysis (SNA)
Tonga
• SNA uses numbers to
represent:
- the presence or
absence of a tie
- the relative strength
of a tie
• Structured interview / questionnaire / observation
used to generate multiple matrices (i.e.
communication, friendship, conflict, trust)
• Specialist software used to generate network graph
6. Negotiation and conflict resolution
Roles of the facilitator
• Empower weaker
stakeholders
• Support negotiation
• Conflict resolution
If more powerful members
dominate..
• Group diversity is not
reflected
• Not all knowledge is
used
7. Empowering IP Members
Overview
‘Subjects’ have
high interest
but low power.
How can we
empower
them?
Participatory
Video Role Play
Participatory
Rural
Appraisal
Negotiation
Skills Training
Use Evidence
from Research
Links between
Levels
9. Empowering IP Members
Role Play
Tonga
• Provide each player written roles
describing their character's goals
and intentions - Do NOT script the
dialog.
• Players should be aware only of
their own roles.
• Assign the role of observer;
observers report back on the goals
and intents they perceive each
character as having.
• Include reflection time to discuss
as a group what everyone learned.
Goal of Method
By taking on the role of
another, a stakeholder can
become aware of their own
assumptions and develop
empathy.
10. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
• A label given to a family of
participatory approaches and
methods that emphasize local
knowledge and enable local
people to make their own
appraisal, analysis, and plans.
• Uses group animation and
exercises to facilitate information
sharing, analysis, and action
among stakeholders.
• Grew from RRA data collection
techniques in the 70s.
TOOLS
• Group dynamics, e.g. learning
contracts, role reversals,
feedback sessions
• Sampling, e.g. transect walks,
wealth ranking, social mapping
• Interviewing, e.g. focus group
discussions, semi-structured
interviews, triangulation
• Visualization e.g. venn
diagrams, matrix scoring,
timelines.
11. Using research evidence
• Conflict between strong
opinion holders can often
be resolved by appealing
to existing research
evidence
• Requires perceived
impartiality on part of
researchers participating in
platform
• Alternatively stakeholders
can be involved in action
research to see evidence
themselves
12. Conflict, Negotiation and Trust
Conflict can be destructive, constructive or instructive.
Constructive Conflict
• Conflict means diverse
stakeholder interests are
represented at the decision
making table
• Conflict helps to unearth
new perspectives and to
confront narrowly defined
points of view. Conflict can
help us see the consequences
of our views through the eyes
of those who disagree
• Conflict generates new
alternatives and more options
• Conflict can help us better
understand the ways we
define problems and the
consequences of our
proposed solutions
13. Conflict, Negotiation and Trust
Conflict management styles
1. Competing. Assertive and uncooperative behaviour focused on
personal concerns at the expense of others.
2. Accommodating. Unassertive and cooperative behaviour that
neglects personal concerns in order to satisfy the concerns of others.
3. Avoiding. Unassertive and uncooperative behaviour that neither
pursues personal interests or the interests of others.
4. Compromising. An intermediate position on both assertiveness
and cooperation often referred to as splitting the difference, seeking
a quick middle-ground position.
5. Collaborating. Both assertive and
cooperative behaviours that emphasize
working with the other party to satisfy both
your concerns and theirs.
14. Conflict, Negotiation and Trust
Successful collaboration through communication
Establish trust and maintain open communication
Open communication depends on:
People coming together as equals and on the basis
of trust
Listening with empathy
Bringing assumptions and perceptions out into the
open
15. Recognise and Name the Masks of
Resistance
The angry mask – use anger to prevent
dialog
The detail mask – derail the
conversation with peripheral detail or
keeps asking for more details
The time mask – introduce delay tactics
The intellectual mask – refuse to deal
with concrete realities
The mask with no mouth - other party
is passive, hides reaction
Conflict, Negotiation and Trust
Resistance as a barrier to open communication
16. Conflict management is a never ending cycle that includes:
• holding preliminary conversations to build trust and
understanding
• deepening those conversations to identify and define the
issues
• Look at issues from different perspectives
• engaging in mutual problem solving
• following-up to assure the results that were expected have
been achieved.
18. Which of the following is NOT a good reason for ensuring that all
stakeholders groups are represented in an Innovation Platform?
A. To avoid biased
decisions and actions
B. To avoid pushback from
marginalized groups
C. To avoid elite capture
D. To avoid conflict
between platform
members To
avoid
biased
decisionsand
a...
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avoid
pushback
from
m
argina...
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avoid
elite
capture
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conflictbetw
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plat...
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19. SNA categorizes the type of relationship between
members of a platform. True or False?
A.True
B. False
True
False
4
16
20. For a role play to be effective, the ‘actors’ should be
provided with a script. True or False?
A.True
B.False
True
False
16
4
21. Which of these is an appropriate role for the
observers of a role play?
A. to provide feedback on the
quality of the play
B. to reflect on and suggest how
the situation could have
been addressed more
effectively
C. to help refine the script so it
can be used more effectively
in future
D. observers are an audience
only
to
provide
feedbackon
the
qual...
to
reflecton
and
suggesthow
th...
to
help
refine
the
scriptso
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observersare
an
audience
only
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4
0
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22. More information
This module is associated with an elearning module
on ‘Understanding, Facilitating and Monitoring
Agricultural Innovation Platforms’ available at:
http://learning.ilri.org/course/detail/24
The course was inspired by a series of briefs
available at:
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33667
See especially: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/34166
23. The presentation has a Creative Commons licence. You are free to re-use or distribute this work, provided credit is given to ILRI.
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Editor's Notes
SNA Hyperlink: https://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Publication-details.htm?publicationId=publication-way-343334353834
Link to download Netdraw software for drawing SNA maps : https://sites.google.com/site/netdrawsoftware/home
CLICK on the picture of the camera to watch a video showing how participatory video was used as a tool by the Nile Basin Development Challenge in Ethiopia to give rural communities a voice. (link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGg12OC0YSk)
Access the Participatory Video Facilitator’s course on ILRI learning portal at http://learning.Ilri.org. This online course was designed and produced by the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics (Humidtropics) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS), under the direction of Humidtropics’ CapDev unit and supported by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).