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Monthly Archives: March 2018
NSL # Rule No. 10 “Personal Transformation is not enough.”
“Enemies making friends!” That is an amazing story. it shows redemption is possible, that reconciliation is not a dream. It can and does happen during the NSL summer, and people who see it think- miracles can happen, that this is … Continue reading
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NSL # Rule No. 11 ” Those who have power don’t want change. Those who want change don’t have power.”
NSL is often seen as a program that creates contacts between enemies to humanize the other and make relationships that can be the platform for future cooperation. That is the traditional model and in post- conflict zones, it can be … Continue reading
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NSL # Rule No. 12 “Don’t Talk About us Without us.”
“If the people most likely to be effected by a story have no voice in it, it is narratively unethical and morally irresponsible.” When you apply this to our 2018 story world, you suddenly realize how rarely it is observed. … Continue reading
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NSL # Rule No. 13 “Its not what you say that gets said, it’s what people think they heard you say.”
“I mean what I say”- is an expression we often hear. It suggests one is a plain spoken person, and that meaning is just as plain. There is no way to confuse the hearer. if only communication were that simple. … Continue reading
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NSL # Rule No 14 “Tell the story to create the listening. Listen to create the telling.”
We usually place the responsibility of communication on the teller and train people to tell stronger, clearer stories. “Get to the point” we insist. But what if we understood communication as a space, inhabited by the dynamic of teller and … Continue reading
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NSL # Rule No. 15 ” Stories are a non-violent exercise of asymmetrical power.”
Nations measure dominance militarily more than narratively. Count up the number of subs and nukes, or tanks and planes, guns and soldiers and we know who we can defeat. While armies claim victories, win territory, and ultimately prevail in battle, … Continue reading
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NSL # Rule No. 16 “Its never just another story.”
If war’s battleground is not won or lost in the trenches or the factories but in the battle over meanings, then EVERY story is a suspect. There is never an innocent story-not in a family, not in an election, and … Continue reading
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NSL # Rule No 17 “If the story is mis-formed, everything that follows is so misinformed that facts lie.”
Isaac Newton had some great ideas like gravity, and some that were a little weird. One was “ether” that explained transmission of light and energy and germs. When people got sick, the “ether” carried the disease and so one went … Continue reading
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NSL # Rule No 18 “Thanks for not helping!”
When someone else offers to help, or wants to tell our story, even for the most noble of reasons, we have to wake up to the cunning oppression of benevolence. People can literally kill us with their kindness. Its not … Continue reading
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NSL # Rule No 19 ” The story you tell is not half as important as the story you create.”
Most programs involving Palestinians and Israelis have adopted the “Dialog” model, where talking and sharing and arguing and resolving is the main process of change. They mould disparate and divided people into a shared experience and hope that this will … Continue reading
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