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	3 WMF ITALIA 2000 Focused Thinking for Resolutionaries: A Set of Tightly Integrated Problem-Solving Skills, Processes and Constructs - A Device for Resolving Conflict and Achieving Reconciliation Without Imposing Values. STANLEY POSTHUMUS ABSTRACT
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Country: U.S.A. Language: English	John Burton, the author, envisaged a process like focused thinking, for he has long distinguished between the processes which impose settlements and those which resolve conflicts in depth - those which bring new understanding and skill and transform relationships and lives. In this process conflict is defined as "confusion"- about information, something much easier to understand than "conflict." Information - any perception, emotion, fact, intuition, or spiritual fact - and the irreconcilable points of view, translations, interpretations and positions created by confusion about information, all create perspectives. And: "Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality." Albert Einstein. The mental "confusion" construct offers a way to think, solve problems, and mediate conflict - to make connections between the different descriptions of one and the same reality, as we communicate - joint problem-solve. Special skills and other constructs connect parts of the picture, which are opposite, and common parts that coincide - bringing understanding. The strategy - to resolve significant problems - is to gather information from perspectives a tiny piece at a time (like pixels that will make up a picture), make sure we look at it from different perspectives, ascertain that it is accurate, confirm it or contrast it, store it effectively, and prepare a way to retrieve it and re-integrate it when we have sufficient - to solve the problem - to put all the pieces together, seethe big picture, one reality.		Director of Focused Mediators Inc., a business providing services in many fields related to conflict resolution.
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