business colleagues shaking hands50 Helpful Blogs About Conflict Resolution

Our top 50 blogs on conflict resolution offer up a plethora of options for those looking to learn more about it.  The blogs are written by some of the preeminent minds in the field, and they are intelligent, fun to read, and truly informative. We cover topics mainly in business-related conflicts, but we also aimed to include a few blogs on personal and world conflict issues.  Most of our blogs are small to medium sized but offer a wealth of content for those interested in the field.

Top Five

  1. Nancy Love's Weblog: The blogger is a workplace effectiveness consultant and is also an international trainer in workplace mediation and leadership. She inputs her creation, the Pulse Method, into her blog, which deals with People Using Language Skills Effectively.
    • Why We Love It: With a master's and a doctorate, Dr. Love is one smart cookie. Her blog is informative, intelligent, and a great resource for those looking for conflict resolution within their business, and beyond.
    • Favorite Post: A Story of the Evolution of the Enneagram
  2. Campus-ADR Tech Blog: The blogger is an assistant professor in the Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution program. His blog covers conflict resolution, learning, research, and technology news.
  3. Resolving Conflict in Teams: Blogger Guy Harris is a former engineer who has segued into leadership, communication, and conflict resolution roles and has become a conflict resolution specialist. His blog covers all of these things in great detail.
    • Why We Love It: For the worker looking to resolve conflict within teams, this is the site to read. There are quite a few little tidbits here that can be of help.
    • Favorite Post: Easy Isn’t Necessarily Best
  4. Negotiation Law Blog: The Negotiation Law Blog offers a wide range of topics on mediation, conflict resolution, law, insurance, and much else.
  5. ICT for Peacebuilding: The blog describes itself as a site meant for exploring the use of information and communications as it pertains to conflict resolution. Basically, it is a blog dedicated to both technology and how it can affect (for the better) conflicts around the world.
    • Why We Love It: Each posting contains so much information, it was easy to put this one in our top five. In general, it's just an interesting and thoughtful blog on conflict, technology, and our world.
    • Favorite Post: ODR and Peacebuilding

The Rest of the Best

  • A Path to Peace: The blog offers insight into ways in which the person can support themselves and others in an office/business environment.
  • ACRWorks: Blogger Stephanie is a professional mediator and life coach out of Ashland, Kentucky. Her blog offers topics on workplace bullying, divorce proceedings, how to teach conflict management to our children, and many other pertinent topics to our work and personal lives.
  • Anger on my Mind: The blogger offers tips on a wide variety of topics such as proper schooling, anger issues, building communication skills, and much, much more.
  • Brains on Purpose: This blog could have definitely placed within our top five if we had a spot available. It covers the brain, neuroscience, and conflict resolution and has both intelligent and intriguing articles for those readers looking to delve deeper into mediation and conflict management.
  • Business Communication Headline News: Business Communication Headline News offers information on all things business communication related.
  • Coach Nora: The blogger is a PhD recipient and has been a conflict resolution expert and family therapist for over 20 years. She posts on a variety of topics and offers very helpful advice for the reader.
  • Colin Rule: The blogger has worked in the field of conflict resolution for more than 10 years as a mediator, trainer, and consultant. His blog offers tips and tidbits on conflict resolution, law, technology, and everything in between.
  • Colorado Family Solutions Center: This is a blog that focuses on families within a divorce situation. The blogger is a mediator, attorney, and arbitrator.
  • Communication Nation: Communication Nation is one blogger's effort to increase our communication levels and become happier and more efficient at work and at home.
  • Communication Overtones: This blog offers topics on how to facilitate communication within an organization that benefits everyone involved. This site has a ton of content and offers interesting articles as well.
  • Conflict Zen: Conflict Zen is an attractive blog that could have easily been a top five pick. It offers ways for turning personal and professional conflict into growth and opportunity.
  • CResearch: The blogger is an assistant professor at University of Baltimore's Center for Negotiations and Conflict Management. He offers conflict resolution research, commentary, and news within his blog site.
  • Dialogic Mediation Services: This blog offers a wide range of topics covered within its pages. From actual news to mediation tips, this blog covers a load of content.
  • Elizabeth Suarez: Elizabeth has spent over 20 years in corporate America, and in that time, she has seen every possible conflict imaginable. Her blog offers answers to a variety of resolution topics for the reader.
  • Family Business Workplace Conflict Resolution: This blog offers information on workplace conflict management solutions. It's a compact site that's worth taking a look at.
  • Good Sense Blog: This blog provides a variety of methods and tips to combat conflict issues within the workplace. It provides readers with solutions to any and all conflict situations that may arise during the workday and in everyday lives, as well.
  • iChat Mediation: There's much content to be read here. iChat Mediation offers itself up as a compilation of life stories involving conflict resolution and family mediation. It provides answers to daily problems and ways in which to keep disputes from turning ugly.
  • Just Mediation: Just Mediation offers a blog that covers topics such as divorce mediation, elder care mediation, theory, and much more.
  • Legal Trends: Legal Trends Network offers information for judges, lawyers, and others who are interested in conflict resolution. Topics include alternative dispute resolution, justice, news articles, practice management, and much more.
  • Marc Gopin: Blogger Marc Gopin is the director of Religion, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. His blog is a far-reaching site that takes a look at our world and its handling of conflicts.
  • Mediation Channel: This is a really well-done site that covers topics such as mediation, negotiation, dispute resolution, and many others within focuses on law, science, and pop culture. There are some extensive posts with a ton of great content.
  • Mediator blah...blah...: This blog has a wealth of content for the interested reader on a variety of issues within the field of conflict resolution.
  • NCDD: The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) is a program for mediators and others who use dialogue, deliberation, and group thinking to solve problems.
  • Ny Center for Interpersonal Development: The blog is all about strengthening relationships and helping to build our communities. There's a wealth of content here on a variety of different and diverse topics for the reader.
  • Oh, wow this changes everything: This is a small blog that offers topics on saying sorry, brain chemistry, and news. It is from a blogger who is a writer on how to change lives one step at a time.
  • Peacemakers Trust: This blog offers content for those studying or working in the field of conflict resolution. News, reports, and announcements are covered on its pages.
  • Playing Well at Work and Beyond: Playing Well at Work and Beyond offers tips and tidbits for just that. The blog offers strategies for challenging conflict and beating it, in the workplace and beyond.
  • Program in Conflict and Peace Studies: The blog is from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Its real focus is on education, but there is news and other issues within the realm of conflict management covered on this site, as well.
  • Re: Solutions: Blogger Gene is a professional mediator and attorney. His blog offers stories about conflict resolution and how both businesses and their employees can figure out solutions to these problems.
  • Real Divorce Mediation: This is a blog dedicated to divorce mediation. It contains solid posts on proper mediation techniques and ways in which to facilitate a good outcome in conflict resolution.
  • Reasons to Kill: This site covers conflict resolution, human rights, and the broader spectrum of what is happening in our world. It's a solid site for those looking to broaden their horizons.
  • Social Communication: This blog offers a point of view from a Swedish speaker and authority in the field of creative and conceptual thinking on communication. There's quite a bit of content, and the point of view offered is truly unique.
  • Southern Cross: Southern Cross offers information on legal issues, conflict management, and others, all within the focus of health care management.
  • Teach for Peace: Teach for Peace offers musings and analysis from a professor of conflict resolution. The blogs are well developed, intelligent, and lengthy, and provide a glimpse into ways in which we can solve these detrimental issues through changes in policy.
  • The Communication Blog: This blog is for those readers interested in improving their own communication skills, and in doing so, improve relationships in work and beyond.
  • The Connection Revolution: This is an overarching site that gives its readers the techniques to connect with themselves, others, and with the world.
  • The Forgiveness Project Blog: This is a site about forgiveness in all its glory. The project is a U.K.-based charity that helps people to explore forgiveness, reconciliation, and conflict resolution.
  • The Recovering Engineer: The Recovering Engineer offers insights into getting out of one's own way. The articles and posts cover ways in which to build more effective relationships, in both the personal and professional realm.
  • The Texas Conflict Coach: The blogger has been working for over 17 years with people on solving their conflict issues at work and beyond. Her blog offers great insight into this process and is a good stop for those readers looking to solve issues within their own walls.
  • Waging Nonviolence: Waging Nonviolence is a blog about -- you guessed it -- nonviolence. The blog offers news, analysis, and articles for those interested in nonviolent conflict resolution practices used throughout our world.
  • Welcoming America: Welcoming America takes a look at the big picture. It offers ways in which we, as Americans, can be more welcoming to those foreign born citizens coming to our shores. This is a great site!
  • Wendy Mack: Wendy's blog offers insight into mobilizing workers within the business and maximizing results. Leadership, change, conflicts, and much more are discussed in depth here.
  • Wise at Work: Wise at Work offers some good insight into conflict management and other issues. Topics include how to disagree with your boss, leadership traits, management issues, and many more.
  • Wisner Dispute Resolution: This is a small blog site devoted to mediation and conflict resolution. Blogger Alec assists clients on a daily basis in resolving their conflict disputes, and his blog articles try to do the same.
  • World of Anger Management: This blog has some interesting information on anger management, ways to curb disruptive behavior in the workplace, self-control coaching, and much, much more.

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