Andre Vlok
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Andre Vlok
@andrevlok.bsky.social
Conflict and employment dispute specialist, negotiator, mediator, arbitrator, author

Email : andre@conflict1.co.za
Blog : http://conflict-conversations.co.za
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My 3rd book, now published and available at Amazon and elsewhere. Some additional details, such as the index and comments from the forewords below.
How we deal with the conflicts in our cities in the next year or two will determine much of the trajectories of our country
A beautiful morning, with a 4h45 start
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The concept of everyday peace...a very real, simple way of making a constructive difference in the conflicts around us. My weekly column in today's Herald newspaper ☕️📰
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Yet disrupting the narrative and calculus of violence and prejudice is an essential step in moving towards forms of peace.

Everyday peace thinking and acts have the capacity to disrupt, not merely interrupt, conflict and create spaces in which other forms of peace may take root.

Roger Mac Ginty
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
A fun early Friday morning
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Diversity mismanaged, our inability to disagree constructively, and its consequences...my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 AM
A copy seen out in the world 📚📚
October 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
One cannot level one’s moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something and the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything.

Daniel Berrigan
October 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Carefully researched and designed over a two year period, this is a unique program of marital conflict resolution.

Not counseling, not therapy...resolution. Contact us today for details, or to start the program
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
My new book on the need to improve and update elite negotiation, and its synergies with modern conflict and other multidisciplinary best practices, is taking shape. I am happy with the chapter framework, I have managed to focus my intended research....now somebody must just get to doing the work...
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM
New arrangement...a first, long, fast beach walk with the youngsters, and then a second slower, shorter beach walk with the old guys. Works out well
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Going home...last dogwalk of the day on this cold and rainy Sunday
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The third article in my series on modern Chinese conflict management strategies in the next edition of Business Talk. We look at some of the arguable vulnerability and weakness in those systems in this article ☕️📰📚
October 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The things you can do with a violin....the magnificent Imminence

youtube.com/watch?v=dEBs...
Imminence - God Fearing Man [Official Video]
YouTube video by Imminence
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October 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My popular music find of 2025...Bad Omens

open.spotify.com/track/5krhWY...
Specter
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October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Marital conflict and modern solutions
My column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
October 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A high energy start to the week...a long beach walk
October 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
My second article in this series of four on a comparative study of global coalition conflict lessons and experiences

www.conflict-conversations.co.za/conversation...
COALITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA Bridges or barriers? Article 2 of 4 - The Conflict Conversations
www.conflict-conversations.co.za
October 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The role of nonverbal communication in our conflicts- my article in this morning's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The fourth and final article in my series on modern Chinese conflict negotiation strategies

www.conflict-conversations.co.za/conversation...
EASTERN WINDS OF CHANGE – A study of modern Chinese conflict management philosophies, strategies and techniques - The Conflict Conversations
www.conflict-conversations.co.za
October 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Heading home
October 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Saving PortElizabeth...some straight talk in my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Early morning beach walk, with summer slowly settling in
October 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Be careful ☕️
October 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM