Quotes & Sayings About Conflict Mediation

Work with love, it is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart. — Kahlil Gibran

All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself. — Jaggi Vasudev

The mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems. — Howard Raiffa

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past ... but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory. — Martha Beck

The lie is different at every level. — Richard C. Hoagland

I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did. — Robert Jordan

Everything in this world seems to be created in pairs. If there is a man, there is a woman - in almost equal numbers. In the same way, there is pleasure with pain, love with hatred, wisdom with ignorance, passion with repulsion, ecstasy with depression, and so on. The world seems to have been divided into two attributes - good and evil. Even God seems to be divided--God Himself and His counterpart - the Devil. — Awdhesh Singh

I hated her with everything I had because it was the only emotion I had to give. I realized, even then, I was giving her everything.
She was the bane of my existence, and at the very same, the reason I cared to exist. — B.B. Reid

If you are still tied to your past, the devil will keep using it as a weapon against you — Sunday Adelaja

Don't worry. I am like most people. I can keep my eyes and still see nothing. — Steven Erikson

Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed ... — Hizkias Assefa

we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life. And in its original version, before an appendix was added, it concluded with one of the most religious sentences written in the twentieth Century: — Viktor E. Frankl

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them. — Andrew Sullivan

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay. — Rose George

I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. — Yunjin Kim

My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler. — Esai Morales

Sometimes what we seek to gain through "winning" a conflict is not worth what we're refusing to sacrifice. And true compromise often involves sacrifice: As on the path between Scylla and Charybdis, the monsters of Greek mythology who lie on either side of a narrow strait to devour sailors and ships, either way you go there will be losses. Through life experience we gradually learn to differentiate between the ideals, values and principles which can, and those which cannot, be compromised. — Alexandra Katehakis

I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay. — Cornel West