Teachers of dispute resolution are constantly grappling with the question of best practices and methodologies. One of the most popular methodologies is simulations, whose value is in harnessing different learning styles. Some people learn by reading, some by writing and others by speaking. Some learn through spirituality, emotions, the physical (kinesthetic) and as a result
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21 Sep
PROCESS DESIGN
Disputes are thieves. They rob us of time, energy and money. Disputes can even lead to death. Preventing disputes and resolving them quickly is imperative. Many disputes are of the kind we tell stories about over coffee in the workplace. A misunderstanding with one’s spouse, an argument with teenage children, and a difficult conversation at
Un vaste débat porte sur la durée et l’étendue réelle du stress causé par un incident grave et du trouble de stress post-traumatique (TSPT). Cette section fera un tour d’horizon pour aider les lecteurs à évaluer les techniques d’intervention appropriées. Cela dit, personne ne remet en question l’impact des victimes sur le site d’une catastrophe.
08 Sep
DRAW ON ALL YOUR RESOURCES
Miscommunication in personal and professional life costs time, energy and money. Despite that, business leaders are generally poor communicators. As a fact-finding tool, asking disputants to draw their perspectives can help achieve clarity. It may sound odd, but even rudimentary stick figures help focus a speaker’s message. A bag of money can represent budgets, a
31 Aug
SURVIVING RADIO
Fredericton radio morning show host Terry Seguin did his introduction, and then began grilling me about urban emergency planning. Journalists are supposed to be provocative, and he was. Since Fredericton has no designated evacuation centres, he asked: “What’s wrong with telling people the day of an incident where they should go?” Using old reflexes, I
16 Aug
SECRET SECRETS
In the classic movie Animal House staring John Belushi, some of the rowdy students are put on “double-secret probation.” Yikes! You’re in trouble and you don’t know it and if you could find out you’re in trouble, you’d have to find out twice to get out of the double-secret part. Which brings us to the
04 Aug
A CYBERSECURITY CHECKLIST
There are plenty of resources on cybersecurity. Some are based on existing frameworks, but much is still under development. Regardless of framework, the best protection against a cybersecurity threat is action. The following checklist gives a brief overview of some of the actions a well-prepared organization has or will commit to implementing as part of
while ago, just before writing about Bradford’s emergency preparedness plan, there was a BBC news story about a fire that had broken out at nearby Drummonds Mill. High levels of carbon monoxide were released into the air. According to the BBC, about 100 houses were evacuated as a precautionary measure. One hundred firefighters tackled the
03 May
A POINT OF ORDER
Clive Thompson’s headline in the New York Times Magazine is eye-catching and funny — “PowerPoint Makes you Dumb.” The article is based on the work of Edward Tufte and his book The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint. Thompson’s article is about the report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that looked into the crash of the
Researchers in the emergency management field call urban emergency plans fantasies, since these rely on public transit, private cars, and even expertise and help that often doesn’t really exist. Up to 56% of urbanites don’t have cars, and often the remedies listed in crisis plans turn out not to exist. In fact, some evacuation orders
10 Apr
TOTALITARIAN
In the days before computers, politicians still had a way to deter- mine how much help they’d give you. If you asked for a favour, many would look you up on the voter rolls to see if you’d voted. If so, there was at least a chance you’d voted for that politician. If you received
26 Mar
V O L U N T E E R S
In the movies, when the town is threatened by natural or other events, somebody rounds up all the able bodied people and gets them to spring into action. If it’s a western, women, men, and children load rifles, make barricades, and fire off a few rounds. They barely hold out until the cavalry arrives —
Roman Ilchenko has served as a Founding Partner of NIAR, an international group of companies focused on business development and market analysis in Ukraine. These past few weeks have been exceptionally different for Mr. Ilchenko as he serves as a reservist for the Ukrainian military, called up to fight against the Russian invasion into Ukraine.
Canadian deterrence simply consists of heavy breathing from Trudeau Those who worry about hyperbolic accusations of an authoritarian government in Canada because of recent events need not worry. Wouldn’t an authoritarian government have been better able to direct police to prepare for the truckers’ convoy and related protests? They did, after all, have a month’s
05 Mar
P H A N T O M H E L P E R S
The things you’ll need to save lives in an urban emergency are pretty ordinary. This means chain saws, shovels, pick-up trucks, snow ploughs, busses, regular cars, and lots of people to operate this stuff. Whether it’s snow, tree limbs, or debris from broken up homes on the street, you’ll need people and equipment to get
The “green” economy is an economy aimed at preserving the well-being of society, through the efficient use of natural resources. It also ensures the return of end-use products to the production cycle. This may be called “full life-cycle environmental stewardship” or “cradle to grave stewardship.” First of all, the “green” economy is aimed at economical
30 Jan
DARLIN’ BE HOME SOON
Good artists borrow and great artists steal, they say. We’ll, I’m stealing from Jim Cobb who has written a shelf full of books on emergency preparedness. Start where you like. I started with Countdown to Preparedness: The Prepper’s 52-Week Course to Total Disaster Readiness. Oddly, there’s more clear and useful information in this little paperback
18 Jan
COPS
Cops have a pretty good set of rules and responses. They look for the good and bad actors. They question everything and have a response for most eventualities. “Move along buddy” solves a lot of problems, for example. It turns out that Detective Constable Kenrick Bagnall who handles Computer Cyber Crime in Intelligence Services, Toronto
07 Jan
N E W T E C H N O L O G Y
Here’s the problem with the relentless pace of technological development. We aren’t using the new technology. Alvin Toffler tried to show that futuristic developments sprang upon us in a shocking way, sooner than we thought they would. Hence his term and book title, Future Shock. He was right, but about 30 years after his prediction.
24 Dec
E V A C U A T I O N
Urban designers ignore ordinary people’s preferences. The evidence is the well-worn pedestrian path through vegetation. This shows how people actually want to use an urban space. There’s a term for “foot worn dirt paths scuffed across pristine grass” as noted in a recent Financial Times article entitled “World’s most impractical buildings?” These are called “desire