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Please create your end-of-course thesis. This thesis should be based on academic writing standards and be no longer than 5 pages. Please discuss the topic with your course supervisor. The thesis might be selected for online publication on the WMO website, or form part of one of the current or future book projects. Please check …

We are now getting to the point when it becomes necessary to gather our obtained knowledge, to sum it up, make it merge with each other, and to put it into practice. This is truly a very challenging moment and process that will take a lifetime. Due to our belief that we are part of …

We believe that it is very helpful to sensitize oneself first, before working with other person’s problems, conflicts, and dilemmas. Therefore, we kindly ask you to take a rest and to meditate on the following statement. Describe what this content means to you, your environment and the human race in general. “The basis of collective …

Course Description / Objectives: As a result of the growing amount of acute crisis events portrayed in the media that impact the lives of the general public, interest in crisis intervention, response teams, management, and stabilization has grown tremendously in the past decade. This chapter transmits the relevant mindset of a critical peace activist, that …

Please select a conflict that was presented to you in the daily news or of current global interest, and create a list of mindful questions in order to create another analytical conflict report. Name all basic facts, the status quo and add all unanswered questions. Make the reader become a critical thinker because of your …

Effective communication techniques At the beginning of this course, we identified the conflict as a catalyst for changes and we determined its social role and significance for the work of a mediator. This introduction shows that conflicts include the proper core or initial starting point for the settlement or resolution construed thereupon. Communication techniques are …