Andre Vlok
@andrevlok
Conflict and employment dispute specialist, negotiator, mediator, arbitrator, author Email : andre@conflict1.co.za Blog :
Interpersonal conflict...dealing with interrupters...my article in today's Herald newspaper ☕️📰
A working weekend at inspirational Hawksmoor House, just outside Stellenbosch
Trapped in our conflict cycles, and what we can do about it...my column in today's Herald newspaper ☕️📰
My next book has a cover and a publication date... We look at the stagnation of elite negotiation, and how to break out of that. The negotiation strategies your competition will have...soon. FULCRUM: new synergies between elite negotiation and conflict management in business and politics ☕️📚
FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION We take a look at these difficult conversations in my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper ☕️📰
In my weekly column in this Friday's Herald newspaper (column #270 👀) we discuss the gift of forgiveness and reconciliation
Revisiting this Business Talk article of mine on the benefits of the arts for conflict practice
CREATIVE CONFLICT -regulating the arts in South Africa- Why are actors and other creative artists in South Africa not as regulated by labor laws as most of the rest of us? My article, due for publication early next week, looks at these challenges through a conflict resolution lens
In my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper we continue our discussion on the benefits of combining conflict and negotiation skills ☕️📰
COGNITIVE WARFARE I have been appointed to do some work on a European project involving cognitive warfare, a topic which is quite possibly the future of conflict management. I will share some of my thoughts from this work soon in an article
TIGHTROPE: South African lessons for middle powers in a multipolar world Early steps in the writing of this new book - an index, which will probably see some heavy revision before publication day
Our interpersonal conflict has a very physical component to it. Misunderstood, hardly ever incorporated in our understanding of how our conflicts are generated, or incorporated in our strategies, this important part of human conflict is getting the attention it deserves. /
Some heavy-duty reading with your morning coffee tomorrow - my article on the China/Taiwan conflict, the possible outcomes, timing, and whether war is inevitable ☕️
Increasingly relevant...my book on being human, conflict and artificial intelligence. Hamlet's Mirror: Conflict and Artificial Intelligence
It is fascinating to see that Pope Leo's first encyclical deals with humanity and artificial intelligence. My 2024 book, Hamlet's Mirror, also investigated this crucial juxtaposition. An article in the influential Catholic publication Word on Fire discusses my book