The Peacemaking Thread

[Edwardo Piet]

Hello everyone.  I'm curious how others constructively resolve conflict or bring peace to situations in their own way. There are so many ways to effectively handle different conflicts; ways which I probably would not have thought of.  Hence, the purpose of this thread is for AF members to share and post any and all peacemaking/conflict resolution techniques, ideas, books, communication skills (etc).  Perhaps pooling our collective peacemaking knowledge could help AF members (myself included of course) and anyone else engage conflict more constructively. 

Thanks and live long and prosper AF members and anyone else.

Make the consequences for non-peaceful resolution too terrible to consider.  If you want peace, prepare for war.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity

Or, to be less flippant:

Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way — and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

If we fight war with war we're only going to destroy the world faster... and more brutally.