Kenneth Cloke
Författare till Resolving Conflicts at Work: Eight Strategies for Everyone on the Job
Om författaren
Kenneth Cloke, J.D., L.L.M., Ph.D., is director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and is a mediator, arbitrator, consultant, and trainer to individuals, large organizations, and corporations
Verk av Kenneth Cloke
Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict: Stories of Transformation and Forgiveness (2000) 11 exemplar
The Dance of Opposites: Explorations in Mediation, Dialogue and Conflict Resolution Systems (2013) 4 exemplar
Politics, Dialogue and the Evolution of Democracy: How to Discuss Race, Abortion, Immigration, Gun Control, Climate… (2018) 2 exemplar
The economic basis of law and state 1 exemplar
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Then I lost my job anyway. And appealed to a legal tribunal, and got it back. Then reluctantly accepted the advice that “back” was far too toxic an environment to re-enter, so I meandered off to university and found myself undertaking a course in Conflict Resolution, Alternative Dispute Resolution, whatever we like to call it.
And to be honest, much of it was, well, ho-hum. Until …
Cloke.
And suddenly this heart began to sing. I mean I suppose I had to do all the other stuff, but case histories and breathy Americanised How To Win By Reading MY Book Available At a Store Near You and extraordinarily dull explorations of the Something or Other Act 1932 as Amended by Dull People in Suits wore thin after a while.
In a manner in which Cloke did not.
Because Kenneth Cloke dived (I guess as An American he might say “dove”) into the spiritual, human, beating heart of mediation. While his use of the adjective and adverb “dangerous/ly” is highly individualised, his thesis, not to mention the scope of his vision, is universal. Weaving across religious, mythological and philosophical traditions, through myriad historical manifestations of conflict, he takes his reader deep into the heart of humans not agreeing with humans. There he dares to breathe resolution.
Cloke steers his reader ably through causes, outcomes, wades through feelings, exposes presuppositions (“Judges have the most intractable bias of all: the bias of believing they are without bias” – 13), provides resolutions. He outlines pitfalls, and reminds the reader constantly that the pitfalls dwell within us. He dares to touch on issues of restorative justice, forgiveness, blame, emotional responses, revenge, reconciliation, Plato and Tutu and Wittgenstein and Goethe and even Thomas Merton, yet never sounds breathy or preachy or, dare I say it, in any way superior to the reader or the subjects of his narrative.
So in the end the course was worthwhile, and the events that led me to it pale into insignificance. Thanks to those events I have chanced across one of the finest books on the state and art of being human that it has been my good fortune to read. Now all I need is enough cash to fly across the world and meet the author in person. Yeah, that's a hint.… (mer)