Bury Your Head In The Sand

Cinnie Noble- It’s not likely that burying our heads in the sand when in conflict helps to solve matters, mend the relationship, or clarify assumptions and perceptions. Sometimes though it may be the best tact.

The expression “bury your head in the sand” apparently comes from the supposed habit of ostriches hiding their heads when faced with an attack by predators. The story was first recorded by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder. One source I found says, however, that ostriches don't hide, either in bushes (as Pliny suggested) or sand, although they do sometimes lie on the ground to make themselves inconspicuous. An interesting take on this story (without much support, however) is that ostriches are not smart and believe that if they can't see their attackers then the attackers can't see them.

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Beyond the Town Hall: Managing Public Disputes

Tune to listen to a past ACResolution author, Larry Schooler, discussing his article "Beyond the Town Hall: Managing Public Disputes". 

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Bringing it All Together: Bringing Your Mind, Body, Spirit, and Hea...

Guest writer Dr. Rachel Goldberg is presenting at the 2013 ACR Annual Conference

Goldberg and Blancke (Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2012) have proposed that integrated work – work that brings our whole selves into the session, and elicits whole engagement from parties -- may be the most powerful transformative tool we offer. They have 

proposed a framework for thinking about how to bring our minds, hearts, bodies, and spirits into our work in a way that protects the self-determination of parties, and Goldberg’s book on that topic will be coming out in 2014. However, the ideas in the book aren’t just ideas. The book features chapters by practitioners who are already using their emotional, somatic (body), and spiritual intelligence in their work as conflict specialists.

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Sustaining Peace Conference- Fall 2013 

Showcasing cutting-edge interdisciplinary work in conflict resolution, violence prevention, peace and sustainability at Columbia University

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