A comprehensive power point of Ken Cloke's presentations on the work of Mediators Beyond Borders and the principles contained in his book Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice and Terrorism or How Mediators Can Help Save the Planet (images courtesy of the internet & not Ken's responsibility)

1. Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice, and Terrorism Kenneth Cloke

2. If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In your veins, and in mine, there is only one blood, The same life that animates us all! Since one unique mother begat us all, Where did we learn to divide ourselves? Kabir “ I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest person whom you have seen, and ask yourself if the next step you contemplate is going to be of any use to that person.” Mohandas K. Gandhi

3. The individual is able to think, feel, strive, and work by himself; but he depends so much upon society -- in his physical, intellectual, and emotional existence -- that it is impossible to think of him, or to understand him, outside the framework of society. It is "society" which provides man with food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions past and present who are all hidden behind the small word "society".... Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society . Albert Einstein The Relationship Between Inter-personal and Social, Economic, Political and Environmental Conflicts: Theses on Chronic Conflict

11. Conflicts can therefore be prevented, resolved, transformed, and transcended by identifying the boundaries that separate us and consensually crossing them, communicating across the internal and external borders we have erected to keep ourselves safe, overcoming the sources of opposition we have created within ourselves, and redesigning the systems and institutions we inhabit and turning conflict resolution values and principles into priorities.

12. Environmental Conflicts: How Mediators Can Help Save the Planet

13. “ It’s a question of discipline,” the little prince told me. “When you’ve finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery “’ We’ and ‘they’ no longer exist. This planet is just us. The destruction of one area is the destruction of yourself. That is the new reality.” The Dalai Lama “ Ecology is the study of balance, and some of the some principles that govern the healthy balance of elements in the global environment also apply to the healthy balance of forces making up our political system. In my view, however, our system is on the verge of losing its essential equilibrium. The problem is not so much one of policy failures: much more worrisome are the failures of candor, evasions of responsibility, and timidity of vision that characterize too many of us in government.” Al Gore “ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” H.G. Wells

14. A Diagram of Exponential Change 0 AD 1500 1900 1950 2050

22. Since one of the most promising approaches to the peaceful settlement of disputes is skillful third‐party mediation, we, the United Nations, have a responsibility to “we the peoples” to professionalize our efforts to resolve conflicts constructively rather than destructively and to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Report of the Secretary‐General, 2009/189

23. The Sources of Chronic Social, Economic and Political Conflict: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice and Terrorism

24. “ We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words or actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men … and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

26. Power, Justice, and Decision Making Kind of Power Power With Power Through Kind of Decision Making Restorative Power Against Power Over Delegation Declaration Reparative Voting Consensus Retributive Unanimity Kind of Justice Consultation Revengeful

31. Common Moral Rationalizations

36. 10 Questions to Ask Before Executing Adolf Hitler 1. Which is the greater evil, Hitler or fascism? 2. By executing Hitler, do we in any way let fascism off the hook? 3. Could you do it yourself -- not by pulling a switch, but with your bare hands? 4. What would happen to you if you did? Would that be worth it? Who, or what, would have won? 5. What about all the little Hitlers who made him possible? Would you execute them as well? Where would you draw the line? Does not the line separating guilt from innocence run through every person? Through the entire world? 6. Could you imagine a fate worse than death for Hitler? 7. What would you design as a form of poetic justice for Hitler? 8. Why give him the lesser punishment and let him off the hook by killing him? 9. Who does his life belong to: his victims or the government? If you gave his victims a choice between personally executing him and having him work for the rest of his life so their children could go to college, which would they chose? 10. Have we been complicit? What have we contributed to the rise and success of Hitler? Shouldn’t part of our anger be reserved for ourselves? What should our punishment be?

37. Changing the Way We Change

38. “ The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” Pablo Casals

40. 1. Building personal capacity for awareness, empathy, honesty, integrity, learning, and open hearted communication 2. Building interpersonal capacity for egalitarian relationships, open and authentic dialogue, teamwork, collaborative negotiation, and democratic decision-making 3. Building systemic capacity for designing preventative, strategic approaches to resolving social, economic, political, and environmental disputes, and encouraging positive attitudes toward diversity, community, and change Three Forms of Capacity Building

47. 1 . from being reactive and responsive to being proactive and preventative 2. from focusing on problems to focusing on vision 3. from tactical to strategic thinking 4. from routine to continuous improvements 5. from individual to team decision making and responsibility 6. from management and control to leadership and empowerment 7. from assistance and affiliation to partnership and alliance 8. from focusing on quantity to focusing on quality 9. from apathy and cynicism to engagement and commitment 10. from compromise to collaboration 11. from private defiance to public dialogue 12. from judgment to evaluation Paradigm Shifts in Collaborative Change

53. “ What are we waiting for? A woman? Two trees? Three flags? Nothing. What are we waiting for?” Andre Breton