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Compassion & Business?

Essay by Scott Kriens. When first asked to speak at an upcoming Compassion in Business conference, I was struck by how seldom we hear those two words in the same sentence. Why? I think it's because we think of compassion too abstractly, and we're probably equally guilty in thinking of "business" too clinically.

Teaching Emotions: A Different Approach to Ending School Violence

A growing network of programs is teaching kids how to understand and express their emotions. Among their results: decreased aggression and violence.

Storytelling Techniques

 

Here are some techniques to help you with your storytelling.  Submit your stories of compassion to the Compassionate Action Network and you'll see them published in this section of our offerings.

AMANDA LEWAN 

Martin Luther King Jr.: Beyond Vietnam

Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire says ‘NO to War in Syria’

History Lessons in Armenia and Azerbaijan

Learn more about the history of Armenia and Azerbaijan (click here for information and purchase)

Albert Schweitzer: The Problem of Peace

Learn more about Schweitzer (click here for information about his writings and purchase)

Jiddu Krishnamurti on Peace in Our time

 

In his later years, J. Krishnamurti spoke at the United Nations in New York, on the 11th April 1985, where he was awarded the United Nations 1984 Peace medal.

Why Warfare? Lessons from the Past

 

 by Steven A. LeBlanc

Steven A. LeBlanc is director of collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous publications, including Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest (1999), Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage (2003), and Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest (2004).

 

Freud, Einstein, and Upaya: Contemporary Reflections on the Question "Why War?"

By Diane Jonte-Pace

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