All of us face conflicts with others at some point in our lives. Whether with loved ones, work colleagues, or our larger communities, those conflicts can take a toll on our relationships and ...

This rebroadcast originally aired on April 12, 2021. Investigative journalist Amanda Ripley wanted to understand the sources of human conflict. So she studied it for more than four years. She detected ...

Faced with hard problems, many people’s first instinct is to hunker down and crank out a solution. If I can just sit still and concentrate hard enough, the thinking goes, I’ll find the answer. That ...

If conflicts in places such as Ethiopia, Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, and Yemen have proved anything, it’s that wars are easy to start, but are also brutal, intractable, and difficult to end. The fickle ...

In fact, most business conflicts are constructive and should be embraced to steer through the maze of innovation and change that is part of every successful business. Surround yourself with yes people ...

At a recent national conference for K-12 school leaders here, multiple workshops on “conflict management” ran at almost full capacity. The principals in attendance were seeking tips and strategies to ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third ...