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Jan 26, 2024 | 
mediate.com | Kenneth Cloke
Many political conflicts are taking place on campuses and in communities today over the war in Gaza between Israeli and Palestinian supporters. Here are a few possible opening questions mediators and dialogue facilitators can use to encourage colleges and universities, groups, communities, and people on both sides or in-between to engage in facilitated dialogue and mediated problem solving.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
mediate.com | Kenneth Cloke
“Oski Dolls, Pompom Girls, U.C. all the way!Oh, what fun it is to haveYour mind reduced to clay!Civil Rights, politics, Just get in the way. Questioning authority When you should obey. Sleeping on the lawn in aDouble sleeping bag [during a sit-in]Doesn’t get things done,Freedom is a drag.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kenneth Cloke
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
mediate.com | Kenneth Cloke
Ken Cloke, speaking about his upcoming book “The Magic of Mediation” interviewed by Clare Fowler as part of the Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club – November 10, 2023 Here is the invitation: “On November 10th we are hosting our next “Great Reads” book club event with the great Ken Cloke discussing his new book “The Magic in Mediation: A Search for Symmetries, Metaphors and Scale-Free Practices.” Anyone who has mediated is likely to have experienced the magic of mediation, and would very much...
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kenneth Cloke
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
mediate.com | Kenneth Cloke |Jill Gross |Douglas C. Noll |Geoff Sharp
As we head into another election season, during which we will be talking with friends and relatives we may find ourselves disagreeing with, here are 50 questions we can ask to help make our conversations more interesting and productive. What life experiences have you had that have led you to feel so passionately about this issue? Where do your beliefs come from? Family? Church? Work?
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kenneth Cloke
Civil societies are simply informal, voluntary, self-organized communities of people. They consist of the spontaneous, unofficial, social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental activities and relationships of people who interact informally alongside the formal, involuntary, hierarchically organized state—yet remain private individuals and public citizens whose lives are largely independent of it.
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May 8, 2023 | 
mediate.com | Stephanie Allen |Roseann Vanella |Kenneth Cloke
An effort to require mediation between landlords and tenants before landlords can file for eviction, if the tenant receives certain financial assistance, passed its last major legislative hurdle on Saturday. Under House Bill 1120, mediation would involve a landlord and tenant meeting together with a neutral third party to discuss a voluntary settlement in lieu of an eviction. If an eviction is ordered, the bill would give tenants 30 days to leave the property, instead of the current 10 days.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
mediate.com | Kenneth Cloke |Jan Frankel Schau
Recent developments in the Middle East have cast China as a reliable intermediary and proponent of multilateral dialogue, signaling a departure from Beijing’s typical reluctance to participate meaningfully in conflict negotiations. Saudi Arabia and Iran’s decision to restore diplomatic relations has raised Beijing’s diplomatic profile and political influence.
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Mar 20, 2023 | 
mediate.com | Kenneth Cloke |Gene Moscovitch
50 Cent has reached the mediation stage of the $1billion lawsuit filed against him by an ex-drug lord over his Power series. According to AllHipHop, it looks like the Queens-bred mogul will face off with former drug kingpin Corey “Ghost” Holland Sr. in May, when the pair are scheduled to appear at a mediation conference together. In 2021, Holland filed a lawsuit that alleged 50 Cent and fellow executive producer Courtney Kemp stole the idea for Power from his actual life.
