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Say It Aloud! Day:1 from European Youth Forum on Vimeo.

For each of the areas that come up on the course, I intend to write a short piece of work. I hope that while some reflections will be personal to me, I will be able to underpin much of my ideas about sustainability and learning though validating them with theories and academic writing thought the…

Concepts and Practice of Peacemaking 2009Reflective Statement and Individual Audit by Lloyd Russell-Moyle ContentsAttendance 2Word Count 2Reflective Statement 3Defining moment and the group process 4Justice and/or to get peace? 11Education and Oppression 16Conclusion 22Individual Audit 24Biblography 25 Attendance I attended all sessions apart from the final “evaluation” which was recorded and I have commented on…

In this week we looked at School strike that took place in south Africa and a mediation between the elders and the younger in a village. This I found was really difficult – was strike actually a positive thing. Young people who were able and willing to be more radical were fighting and making as…

Well The idea which was introduced in week 8 and also is outlined in the Conflict resolution toolbox (GT Furlong, P 76) shows how we see conflicts at the surface level but underneath the water line ( the line of sight and ease of passage in the mediation process) there is larger hurdles and things…

Thinking about the effectiveness of different tactics of mediation is an important skills for the conflict resolution practitioner. This week we looked at non-directive mediation, there is some dispute about the effectiveness compared to more directive techniques, but the facilitator outlined that he felt that it was important to understand that practice  non-directive methods before…

Today in CR, we had an an interesting session, we talked about what kind of learning we were getting and were we happy with it. Some of the comments showed the inherent concern that many of the members had with the process of assessment (much of which I have but also expect to have). The…

At that last session we looked and talked about active listing. The two exercises were basic and very similar. One was to divide in to pairs and we talked about a dilemma. Each of us had to listen and refrain from judging and giving advice. We asked ourselves questions such as: How was it? How…

Just a quick note about the Nobel Peace Prize. Today they announced that the winner for the 2009 prize will be Barack Obama a president of the USA who has been in post for less than a year and was only in office for two months before he was nominated. This is an interesting choice…

Well what happened to the first (need to catch up)! In these blogs I intend to outline the structure of the sessions. Comment on the methods used and hopefully include some theoretical readings or thoughts about the inputs and other topics that come out though either the course and my every day life. The second…

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Following a rally at midday today, we as students from the University of Bradford began an occupation of the university in an urgent move to demand action from the institution. This comes as Israel today broke their assurance of a ceasefire by launching air attacks and a ground offensive, once again into Gaza. Over 80…