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Welcome!
Welcome to the Spring 2011 Conflict Resolution Citizen Circle!
Since we have over 40 participants registered, we will be relying primarily on the "Forums" function of P2PU to communicate: each week, I will create a new discussion thread based upon that week's topic, as outlined in the syllabus. In addition to the discussion forum, I would like for us to break into smaller groups that will communicate via Skype (or a similar platform) each week. In a few minutes, I will post a discussion thread for us to determine together how best to create these small discussion groups. I hope that we can establish these quickly and begin our chats next week!
Please keep in mind that this is a peer-led course, and your input is not only welcomed but essential for our success. While I do have a background in conflict resolution, I am not an expert, and the topics that I think are important are not necessarily the same topics that you would like to learn about. This class will be tailored to the needs of the students, so let me know if there is something you would like to cover that is not in the syllabus, or if you have suggestions regarding course requirements, materials, practices, etc.
Our first discussion will be based upon William Ury's TED talk entitled "The Walk from 'No' to 'Yes'" (http://www.ted.com/talks/william_ury.html). Many of you have already submitted wonderfully thoughtful responses to the video with your course application - I invite you to share these insights on our class forum, which I will post by January 26!
As it is our first week of class, I would like for us to establish a "social contract," whereby we determine a set of guidelines and expectations for all of us to follow throughout the course. I will post a thread on the Forums section for this. You are also encouraged to use this thread to make suggestions for the course. Using our discussion, I will create a social contract for everyone's approval, as well as an updated syllabus based upon your needs.
Finally, I would like to apologize for my tardiness in contacting all of you - I have just returned from studying abroad in Cambodia, where I didn't have the opportunity (or even internet access, at times) to get in touch. I am back and mostly recovered from the jet lag, and would be happy to respond to any questions/concerns you may have!
Conflict resolution is something that I am very interested in and passionate about, and I look forward to sharing and learning with all of you!
Regards,
Emily Ludwin Miller
P.S. - Please use this thread as an opportunity to introduce yourself! Include your name, location, background, and why you signed up for this course. Thanks!
-Emily
Greetings everyone,
My name is Joe Wong. I am a project manager for a software consulting firm in Toronto, Canada.
Needless to say, conflict is like negotiation, we encounter it, one way or another, in our daily life and in business. Knowing how to do this well is an essential skill. In particular, I am interested in learning techniques that can help defuse a situation and move all parties to a problem solving mode quickly.
Looking forward to participating in our discussions.
I am Winifred Eyoufe, currently living in Vienna, Austria. I work among people of different nationalities and this course is aimed at improving my personal and professional relationship with colleagues who have diverse interests and ideas. I come from a developing country where there are lots of tribal, regional and national conflicts. I hope to acquire those needed skills essential to negotiating peaceful compromise to tricky knots.
I am very excited to have such a bunch of people with rich and diverse experiences on this course.
My name is Trista Smith. I'm a Library Director living in Hamilton, Montana and as a new manager, I see conflict resolution as an important skill for me to learn and practice.
Hi everyone my name is Frank Angus and I work two part-time jobs. I am also starting an information business on the internet. I like to follow the conflicts that our in the news from politics to labor and see how they get resolved. I also believe conflict resolution is an invaluable skill to posses so I am keen.
My name is Dave Michaud, I am an assistant supervisor for an electronics store. Am in the middle of a career change and I anticipate beginning my bachelor degree in commerce in September. From Alberta, Canada and could benefit from learning about conflict resolution, and apply it to job or everyday situations.
Hi everyone, my name is Joshua. I am located in the great Graden State, NJ. I have a great need and hope this class can show me new and more ways to grow. A goal of mine is to learn how to deal, help, and understand the ways of humanity in order to become a better debater. Thank you for having this class.
If it is proper, I submit a book in the hopes that it would add to our discussion.
By Les Giblin "The Art of Dealing With People"
Hi everyone, my name is Zaheer Dauwer and i am living in Toronto, Canada. I am originally from Afghanistan and grew up while my country went through Russian invasion and the subsequent civil war and all the other problems ever since. All these experiences have made conflict resolution be it between groups, communities, religions and countries a cause worth fighting for. I am very interested to be sharing my experiences and learning from all of you.
G'day mates! My name is Jesse Taylor participating from Coffs Harbour Australia. We moved here two months ago from the Garden State of NJ (Passaic, NJ Joshua)where I worked in Manhattan in an anti-poverty organization. I have been involved in anti-violence, anti-poverty and social justice community organizing and programs for the last ten years and am very excited to learn from you how to do what we all do better.
Hi everyone! My name is Lori Harmon. I live in Chicago and am currently working as a technical writer. I'm interested in learning conflict resolution skills so that I can apply them in everyday life.
Greetings Emily et al,
My name is Trevor and I will be joining the class from Toronto, Ontario. My past professional life was spent in Corporate Sales and Project Management. As Joe W already mentioned, conflict in this arena is a very common experience. Learning to navigate these minefields was essential to success. I left that life behind largely because it consumed too much of my headspace. Now I manage a small retail operation where conflict can still be a very common occurrence, but definitely with much lower stakes.
All this being said, my biggest goal is to manage conflict with my young son more effectively. Any of you that have children know that conflict with a child can be infinitely more challenging than with adults since many of the same "rules of engagement" simply do not apply. At the same time, it has also occurred to me that many world conflicts seem, from the outside looking in, to be similar in nature. In other words, seemingly irrational viewpoints diametrically opposed to real or perceived adversaries. I figured that if this course could help me better understand the mechanics of conflict, perhaps through better modeling my boy might grow to be a part of a solution rather than perpetuating current problems.
Best regards,
Trev
Hi!
My name is Yukta Kumar and I am currently based in Kathmandu, Nepal. I work at an INGO as a project coordinator for a financial education and community capacity building project.
My interest in enrolling for this course is to learn more about conflict resolution and negotiation strategies that are applicable for my work in community settings and with public-private partnerships.
Looking forward to the course!
Best,
Yukta
Greetings! You came back in time :D
Well, my interest in joining this course is to improve myself as a person.
Personally, from time to time I have found myself having trouble resolving conflicts between me and my friends when we work together in project, and it sometimes result in me losing friends. Which is very sad.
I hope through this course I could learn more about conflict resolution and open up thoughts that I previously didn't think of.
PS. I will be moving house tommorow, thus I could be late in my first week assignments. I hope I would be able to catch up.
Hello Everyone, I am Pratibha Bondia , an agribusiness graduate from Arizona State University, USA. I am a citizen of India and is living here now.
I conduct motivational/educational seminar for kids and is working as a counselor in India. Learning conflict resolution skill would be very helpful for my career .
I am excited. Thanks a lot Emily for conducting this course for us.
Hello,
I'm Nada From Yemen ,I work as an instructor in college (computer science profession ).
Conflicts is every where and i face it daily ,and rarely i can solve them ,so of that i 'm here to understand conflicts ,it's reasons and proper way to solve them.
Looking forward to learn with you.
Greetings Peers, I'm Julie Carle, a Kiwi (NZer) living in Rome where I have been consulting for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN and the International Land Coalition. In both organisations, combating poverty is a key focus. Land and resourses are often involved and resolving conflict is a necessary skill. We have lived and worked in many developing countries trying to help rehabilitate them after periods of conflict; sometimes imposed from within (Cambodia, Sri Lanka)and Vietnam where the conflict was imposed from outside. In Singapore we observed Govt housing and social policies to integrate the different ethic groups.
Last year I completed a Masters in Online and Distance Education. I found the elearning experience very engaging. I learned about P2PU at the Open Education Resources conference in Barcelona last October so was extremely keen to particiate in a P2PU course. Conflict Resolution looked to be the most relevant course for my background and personal aspirations. Like most of the posts above I am keen to better apply conflict resolution in my daily life.
Hi,
Joseph Zaarour; from Lebanon; Business background; Management & IT consultant; currently setting up a project management start-up boutique for the middle east region & serve as a municipal councilman for 4 cities; I wanted to broaden my perspective on behavioral techniques especially in conflict resolution. I look forward to participating. JZ
Hi everyone, my Name is Jürgen Hebebrand, I'm from germany, a Logistics Manager in a world wide Supply Chain. As I'm managing a Site with 120 + people, conflict is occuring every now and than. I want to discuss about conflicts and conflicts resultion and share views with others from araund the world.
Cheers
Jürgen
Hello, My name is David Palomar and I am from Spain. A lecturer of Carlos III University and founder of a small business technology enterprise. I'm certified life and executive coach also.
Conflict resolution course is a good stuff for me and my ordinary tasks. I could learn more about conflict resolution.
Regards
David
Hello, My name is Veronica Amestoy I'm from Venezuela, but currently leaving in Czech Rep. I work as Technical Support for Direct Marketing. I believe that conflicts can be everywhere and gaining skills to solve them would make all aspects of you life better.
Cheers,
Veronica.
Hello everyone,my name is Oby Obasi...I am here because i want to learn form more about the concept of conflict and how to resolve it so as to apply it in my everyday life...
Cheer,
Oby.
Hi evryone, my name is Tom Koroba from Kenya. Looking forward to learn on conflicts. genesis,entrenchment, resolution and avoidance. Good luck everyone
hi everyone, my name is Siti Nurhilal Fakhriah,but u can call me, ria. i am currently living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Now, I work as a PR in Social Ministry. I am very interested to discuss in this topic because it is closely related with my work.
I come from a developing country where there are a lot of ethnic group, culture, religion, etc that can be used some people to mobilitation this situation or national conflic for political power and economic. I understand that every case has the approach and method of solution is different and specific each other. So, I hope we can sharing n learning techniques to defuse complex situation.
And I have big proplem with my english language :)
Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well.
Name: Rei
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Background: Hong Kong born, Canada raised Chinese
Enrollment reason: Currently pursuing a career in law enforcement. I'm sure we all know why conflict resolution would be applicable.
I hope to learn from all of you this semester, I'm sure we'll have very interesting discussions.
Hi I'm an American from San Francisco Bay Area, currently in Sydney, Australia.
I work in the software industry.
I'm interested in this course because of well-known international conflicts, the political "vitriol" in the US, my personal issues with people I care about, and my interest in social software design (where online conflicts arise often).
Glad to meet y'all
Hello new friends. I hope that through this experience we may all grow in some way that benefits us and the world we live in.
My name is Scott Marth and I am a Deputy Sheriff working in rural county of Illinois. I have been in law enforcement here for over two decades. Much of what I do centers on responding to crisis and conflict. No call is the same, and time is of critical importance. Conflict resolution for me is done on my feet and many times it is hindered by my acting under color of law. In order to be good, I have to be a quick sell and move past the television education that most persons have about what a police officer is going to do or capable of doing in any given situation.
I hope to learn something from every person in this class. Everyone has something to teach us, if we only stop long enough to listen. I am thrilled that we have so many different cultures represented here. I think that is going to make this whole experience so much more powerful.
May peace follow you,
Scott
Hello Everyone,
My name is Samantha and I currently work for one of the largest credit unions in Canada. I'm hoping to gain some new skills that will help me in my career, as I'm having a hard time mastering the subtle nuances of mediation and turning a No into a Yes without coming across as too pushy and argumentative.
I certainly hope that I don't come across that way in this course!
I look forward to exploring this fascinating subject with all of you. There seems to be a wonderful melange of personalities and backgrounds, and I can only imagine that this will bring a real richness to our discussions!
Thank you for allowing me to take this journey with you!
Hello! I am Teddy, a nurse currently working in the Philippines.
Conflict is a naturally occurring and expected phenomenon in all organizations, most especially in a service-oriented institution. I look forward into learning new strategies and insights regarding conflict resolution that i can use in my day-to-day work.
Hi everyone...My name is Brandie Jeselon and I live in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada. I work at a car parts wharehouse and am 39 years old. I've always had a natural tendency for conflict resolution so am very excited to be a part of this although I am finding it difficult to keep up with my job...so bare with me! Good luck everyone and nice to meet you all!!!
My name is Melanie, I am a Canadian living in Toronto. I am taking this course because I have a interest in conflict resolution, both personal and professional. I am really excited about the diverse people from all over the world taking this course.