by James Dykeman | Aug 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
With a heavy heart, the Center for Understanding in Conflict announces the sudden and tragic passing of Eric Butler, much too soon, two days before his 50th birthday. Eric profoundly affected our evolving work in the Center by educating us to talk honestly about race,...
by Kayla Hellal | Mar 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
What have we learned in the past two years of mediating online? By Catherine Conner and Katherine Miller As we moved mediation online in the early days of the pandemic, many of us believed that we would return to in-person sessions within a few weeks or months....
by Kayla Hellal | Jun 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Melanie Rowen For this Pride month, I had the opportunity to converse in a video with CUC’s Kayla Hellal about my own background as a queer person and attorney in the LGBTQ+ movement. I feel strongly that all of us need to look inward to investigate our...
by Kayla Hellal | May 20, 2021 | Book Review, Uncategorized
Book review by Catherine Conner Cathy Park Hong defines minor feelings as “the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one’s perception of...
by Kayla Hellal | Apr 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
We at the Center for Understanding in Conflict (CUC) soberly acknowledge that the guilty verdict cannot heal or restore the harm that generations of white supremacy, held up by our law and legal system, have inflicted on Black people and all people of color, as well...
by Kayla Hellal | Mar 23, 2021 | Book Review, Uncategorized
How Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley Review by Jennifer Sullivan It was only because I was midway through Amanda Ripley’s awareness-sharpening new book High Conflict that I winced when I heard President Biden’s quip about Neanderthal...
