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What is Conflict Competence and What are the Core Conflict Competencies?
Oct 26, 2023Over the past year, I have written a series of EDR Blogs sharing my thoughts about how and why we tend to go so wrong […]
Courage: An overarching skill for making conflict productive
Oct 01, 2023If you have been reading my recent blogs, you know I believe the following four skills are key for making conflict productive: calm, compassion, curiosity, […]
Compassion: A Prerequisite for Calm, Curiosity, and Creativity When Dealing with Conflict
Sep 01, 2023My past blogs have made the case that three basic ingredients are key to making conflict productive: calm, curiosity, and creativity. If making conflict productive […]
Curiosity is a Superpower When Dealing with Conflict
Jul 26, 2023If you’ve been following the EDR Blog, you know I have been working on a series of blogs explaining why conflict tends to be so […]
To Make Conflict Productive, Focus on Co-Creating Mutual Gains Outcomes
Jul 02, 2023The mission of the EDR Program is to foster a culture of collaboration around environmental, natural resource, and broader public policy issues. In other words, […]
The Power of Calm When Dealing With Conflict
Jun 01, 2023By Danya Rumore If you’ve been reading our recent EDR Blogs, you know that I believe conflict is a normal, healthy, unavoidable part of life. […]
How to Focus on What Really Matters in Conflict
May 01, 2023By Danya Rumore Over the last few months, we have published a series of blogs that start to explore why conflict is so hard for […]
Want to Make Conflict Productive? Focus on What Really Matters
Apr 01, 2023By Danya Rumore If you’ve been reading our recent blogs, hopefully by now you’re convinced that conflict “just is”: it is a healthy, normal, unavoidable […]
Why We Tend to See Conflict as a Problem – and Why It Matters
Mar 01, 2023By Danya Rumore In our prior blogs, we have explained that conflict just is: it is a normal, healthy, unavoidable part of life. Therefore, we […]
The Problem with Conflict is that We See Conflict as a Problem
Feb 01, 2023By Danya Rumore Even after many years of work in the field of conflict resolution and collaboration, I continue to be amazed by the extent […]
The Future of the EDR Program: Extra (Effective) Dialogue Required
Jan 03, 2023By Danya Rumore on behalf of the EDR Program team When Michele Straube founded the Wallace Stegner Center’s EDR Program in 2012, she somewhat jokingly […]
I Abhor the Word “Compromise”
Oct 10, 2022PLEASE NOTE: The EDR Program is a big advocate for doing “less but better.” In line with that and our sense that most people get […]
Introducing the Gateway & Natural Amenity Region (GNAR) Initiative
Sep 26, 2022By Jordan Katcher The Wallace Stegner Center’s Environmental Dispute Resolution (EDR) Program fosters a culture of collaboration around the environment, natural resource, and broader public […]
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Environmental Psychologist’s Guide to Sharing Ranching Landscapes with Wildlife
Sep 12, 2022By Dr. Hannah Jaicks Most aspects of life in the early twenty-first century go beyond easy analysis and resolution. The subject of ranching, particularly in […]
Meet EDR Initiatives Facilitator Jordan Katcher
Aug 29, 2022Meet Jordan Katcher (she/her), who joined the Environmental Dispute Resolution (EDR) Program team at the University of Utah’s Wallace Stegner Center in August 2022. Jordan […]
Ask Better Negotiation Questions
Aug 15, 2022Use negotiation questions to gather information that will expand the possibilities. By PON Staff This post originally appeared on Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation’s […]
Interests, Positions, and Conflict – Oh My!
Aug 01, 2022By Emily Gaines-Crockett Interests and positions. We hear these terms frequently in negotiation and dispute resolution circles, but what do they really mean? And why […]
Conflict Just Is. Let’s Make It Productive!
Jul 18, 2022By Danya Rumore Every year, I train and coach hundreds of professionals and university students in the skills of collaboration and conflict resolution. In working […]
How Can We Break Through Our Narrative of Polarization?
Jun 21, 2022By Courtney Breese It’s easy to see that our nation is polarized. Watch any national news program or scroll social media and this narrative of […]
Facilitating Effective Meetings: New Resources from the EDR Program
Jun 06, 2022By the EDR Team We’ve all sat through poorly planned meetings. When happening in person, these are the meetings where we fidget in our seats, […]
Better Together: Co-Creating a Factual Foundation in Environment & Public Policy Conflict
May 23, 2022By Alice Shorett Social media silos of information, separate worlds of news pipelines, advocacy experts—can we ever find a way to talk to one another? […]