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Excerpts from “Nonviolent Communication and War” from Puddledancer Press: The failure to arrive at agreements that avoid armed conflict can be the result of: poor facilitation – someone without the skills for how to bring parties together to negotiate constructively, a “crisis of imagination” — that is, the lack of creative thinking brought to bear on generating possibilities other than violence, or, one or more parties engaging in poor faith — neither truly willing nor sincerely wanting to avoid armed conflict.
It is our contention at PuddleDancer press that there will be a direct link between the adoption of NVC consciousness and skills by those in governance globally, and the reduction of armed conflicts worldwide [….] When individuals can separate Universal Human Needs from the ways they satisfy them, also known as strategies, they find that there are usually multiple avenues for fulfilling their needs. The same is true for groups and nation-states. However, without a willingness to communicate, understand each others’ needs, and find alternate strategies for meeting the most needs for the greatest number, the prospect of meeting needs without violence is decreased […] NVC diplomacy would: seek to bring to the surface and clarify each party’s needs and values, support each side in helping the other side(s) be heard for their deeper needs and values, and then, facilitate the co-creation of strategies that support all or as many of the needs as possible.
Everybody’s needs matter, but not everybody’s needs will necessarily be met. This depends on the strategies they can imagine and on which they can agree.
Content by PuddleDancer Press. Use of content okay with attribution. Please visit www.nonviolentcommunication.com to learn more about Nonviolent Communication.
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