by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | PEACEMAKING HABITS
What is conflict analysis? The verb analyze means to examine systematically or methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. It basically means to break something down and study it carefully and in an orderly manner to discover how the parts...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | PEACEMAKING HABITS
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | PEACEMAKING HABITS
Peacemaking Resources: Resolution, Transformation, Negotiation Conflict Transformation Resources The Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation (Free online Handbook with up to date articles for practitioners). Conflict Transformation _ Beyond Intractability....
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | PEACEMAKING HABITS
Here is a popular Middle East story that is good to remember as you negotiate. I first heard the story years ago from Harvard negotiator William Ury. A man died and left his herd of 17 camels to his three sons as an inheritance to them. In his will, he said his first...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | PEACEMAKING HABITS
Ideas can be True or False Actions can be Right or Wrong. People can be Good or Evil. When there is a conflict, both parties need to be able to separate the people from the problem. The problem may boil down to ideas or actions that one or both parties are taking....
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | DIFFICULT BIBLE PASSAGES, PEACEMAKING HABITS
Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness are some of the most profound I’ve ever read. Many Bibles have translated one particular quote from him in ways that many misunderstand. “Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember...
