By KELVIN MBITI MUNEENI
The most important thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the fact. Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
''In a conflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point to a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.'' Thomas Crum. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
An apology is the super glue of life. It can repair just about anything. To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want. By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
''A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.'' G.K. Chesterton.
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations…is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
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