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Category Archives: Nonviolence and conflict resolution
Why I was arrested for stopping a coal train
Yesterday I was one of 50 people arrested during an action calling for no new coal. This is why. Continue reading
2 questionnaires identifying conflict management style
In a recent point, I provided an overview of 5 styles of conflict management. In this post I discuss two questionnaires that can be used to identify people’s main style Continue reading
What are the 5 styles of conflict management?
I find the five styles of conflict management a useful, easy-to-understand way of thinking about different approaches to ways of responding to conflict: These five styles, identified by Kenneth Thomas in 1971 [1] and since refined by him and his … Continue reading
Postcards from Practice: Initial Learnings from the Name.Narrate.Navigate Program
We have just published a report, Postcards from practice: Initial learnings from Name.Narrate.Navigate. with initial learnings for work with young people and domestic violence. Continue reading
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Tagged Domestic violence, Family violence, Research, Youth
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Name.Narrate.Navigate: a program for young people who use violence in their families
Name.Narrate.Navigate (NNN) is a program exploring trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive responses to family and domestic violence by young people. NNN, works with young people who have committed family and domestic violence; are identified at risk of coming into contact with the justice system for same; or who live in family and community contexts with high rates of family and domestic violence. The program also works to upskill practitioners in a range of sectors to work with these young people in ways that address the spectrum of violence, abuse and trauma from victimisation through perpetration. Continue reading
The Alternatives to Violence Project: Reflections on a strengths-based approach to nonviolent relationships and conflict resolution
This is the text of a peer-reviewed paper that Gener Lapina (from AVP and Family Support Newcastle) and I had published as part of the 2018 Family and Relationship Services Association conference. The citation with a link to the published … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternatives to Violence Project, AVP, Domestic violence, Group work, My publications, My work, Strengths-based approaches, Strengths-based practice, Working with families
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Alternate pathways for young people who have perpetrated violence
I’m excited to have been invited to join this project developed by a colleague in social work, Tamara Blakemore. I’m looking forward to building on my experience with the Alternatives to Violence Project, exploring how we can address domestic and … Continue reading
Conflict resolution and nonviolence workshops with young people
This paper was originally published in 1999, but is still quite relevant. SINCE 1994, the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and Help Increase the Peace (HIP) have conducted workshops in Newcastle on conflict resolution and nonviolence with adults and young … Continue reading
Conflict and homeless youth
This is an article I wrote over 20 years ago in Youth Studies. When writing about my response to the Four Corners program, Australia’s Shame, about the treatment of teenagers in detention in the Northern Territory, I had another look … Continue reading
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