The setting is Manitoba, Canada. The photographer is renowned wildlife photographer Norbert Rosling. The central characters are a husky sled dog and a wild polar bear, who approaches the chained husky from the tundra. Their exchange extended for more than twenty minutes.
As you watch, consider this: When someone with whom you’re experiencing tension approaches you, what do you signal, consciously or otherwise?
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For more on the sled dog and the polar bear, visit The National Institute for Play’s Why Didn’t the Polar Bear Eat the Husky?
Conflict Zen by Tammy Lenski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at ConflictZen.com.
Our major model for interaction across levels of power, with money, influence power and fairness/justice at stake, is our adversarial, win-lose, zero-sum accusatorial legal system. We could have such things as dispute play and conflict play which would help promote a win-win world for everyone. Conflict play could be incorporated into current adversarial interactions, but I’m thinking what we really need to do is bring more of the European inquisitorial and investigative, i.e. truth-based, justice system into the U.S. If you want, google “Evan Whitton” and read his “Serial Liars”. We need a new major model for fairness/justice in this country.