Conflict-Free Conflict Resolution

Create a violence-free environment

“This is a unique project. It will teach how to create a violence-free environment, in homes and schools and in the country as a whole. ” ~The Senior Deputy High Representative, Ambassador Dr. Matei Hoffmann

Summit devoted to children

“On the occasion of the Summit devoted to the children, we recommend this program to all nations for consideration…” - Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations, May 2002

Changing the way we teach

“As a result of participating in the EFP project, my way of teaching has changed, my relationships with students has changed… all for the better.” ~Teacher, Secondary School, BiH (2001)

EFP provides a framework

“EFP provides a framework for achieving an advanced human society that is both practical and universal…” ~Yolanda Cowan, Rotary World Peace Scholar

Unity-based Conflict Resolution is a program that explores the premise that conflict resolution and peace-building can be helpfully thought about and practiced through a focus on building unity. Courses and training in this program explore ideas about the nature of unity, conflict, and peace, and explore the applications of unity-centered methodologies to inter-personal, organizational, inter-group, and global contexts.

Topics covered include: theories of conflict, unity, and peace; the intersections of developmental psychology with conflict resolution and peace-building; theories of social change; and the skills of unity-building; and the skills and steps of Conflict-free Conflict Resolution (CFCR), which is one particular unity-centered method of peace building and conflict resolution.