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Star Wars and Conflict Resolution Blog
Star Wars for Mediators
Does Star Wars have any useful lessons for mediators? We talked about this very question at a recent roundtable with the mediators and conflict resolution professionals of ACR-GNY.
Power in Conflict: Empire vs. Rebellion
Is it better to have power over someone or share power with someone? In Star Wars and Conflict Resolution, Rachel Viscomi describes these two conceptions of power in the Star Wars universe. 3L Max Lentz explains.
Han Shot First, revisted: Game Theory, Bargaining, and Star Wars
Dr. Matthew Rousu, an economist, and Professor Noam Ebner, who studies negotiation and conflict resolution, watch three Star Wars clips and discuss the game theory, strategy, and negotiation issues underlying each scene.
Strategies to Resolve Conflict: Learning from Star Wars (Harvard PON Blog)
In Star Wars and Conflict Resolution, the contributors—professors and mediators; judges and lawyers; all of them, it seems, Star Wars fanatics—analyze scenes and characters from the franchise through the lens of conflict resolution.
Join us at Emerald City Comic Con!
Star Wars and Conflict Resolution will be at ECCC next week!
Harvard’s Progam on Negotiation (PON) hosts Star Wars and Conflict Resolution
Harvard University's Program on Negotiation hosts Jen Reynolds and Noam Ebner of the Star Wars and Conflict Resolution project.
https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/pon-live-star-wars-and-conflict-resolution/
Can we learn anything from the Star Wars saga about how to negotiate deals and disputes more effectively? Most definitely, according to Noam Ebner and Jen Reynolds, co-editors of the new book Star Wars and Conflict Resolution: There Are Alternatives to Fighting (DRI Press).
Join us for a fun and informative session exploring the complexities of negotiation and conflict resolution through one of the most beloved cultural narratives of our time.
Andor: What Makes Us Join The Fight? (II)
In a recent blog post, I introduced a key theme in Andor: What causes a person to shift from being a bystander to a broad social conflict to joining it as an active participant? In a second installment on that theme, I introduce the explanation provided by Dr. Drea, psychologist and pop-culture expert
These Days Will End, Cassian Andor: Shifting Distrust to Trust
Cassian Andor and Luthen Rael negotiate the purchase and sale of an expensive bit of Imperial merchandise.
But the main item on the bargaining table is their trust in each other.
From Rogue One To Andor: What Motivates Us To Join The Fight?
What are our motivations for engaging in conflict? What drivers won’t let us sit this one out, or just not look up and se the Imperial flag waving across the galaxy? Thoughts after seeing Rogue One, and in anticipation of Andor, for all of us who haven’t been in the fight since we were six years old and find ourselves making decisions about whether to engage in conflict or not.
Following a path - Star Wars and a new audience for Conflict Management
SWCR contributing author Sherrill Hayes shares his new pathways for bringing peace and justice to the galaxy
Star Wars and Conflict Resolution Goes to Dragon Con 2022
Star Wars and Conflict Resolution enters the world of Cons with a bang at Dragon Con 2022
Kenobi finale: “Star Wars is like poetry… it rhymes”
Kenobi Episode 6 and Episode 6: Return of the Jedi correspond with each other. Rhyme with each other. Star Wars at its best.
Our Kenobi Ep. 6 forecast: Sandy with a chance of Ewoks
We provide our prediction for Episode 6: there will be Ewoks!
Kenobi Ep. 5: The quick fix
There are two types of conflict: those that can be resolved with a quick fix and everything else.
Kenobi Eps. 4-5: Rest In Power, Tala
Rose Tico suggested you need to choose between two ways to prevail: “That's how we're gonna win. Not by fighting what we hate. But saving what we love.”
“Hold my spotchka,” said Tala Durith, and with a flick of her thumb, did both.
Kenobi Ep. 4: “I hope you like pain”
Obi-Wan and Roken, Tala and the security guy, Reva and Leia—negotiations are on display in Episode IV! Let’s dive into the hardball tactics Reva tries to use to persuade Leia to give up the sympathizers.
Kenobi Ep. 3: Emotions from the Dark Side
In conflict we often need to deal with extreme, raw, emotion. There’s no escaping that. If we work well with our emotions, even the dark ones, we will succeed. Obi-Wan Kenobi, confronting and then escaping from a revenge-driven Darth Vader, must learn this lesson quickly.
Kenobi Eps. 1-2: “The fight is done. We lost”
The first two installments of Obi-Wan Kenobi provide numerous examples of leverage.
