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
Email : andre@conflict1.co.za
Blog : http://conflict-conversations.co.za
A beautiful morning, with a 4h45 start
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
A beautiful morning, with a 4h45 start
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker
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
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 ☕️📰
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
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
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
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
A fun early Friday morning
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A fun early Friday morning
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
Diversity mismanaged, our inability to disagree constructively, and its consequences...my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
A copy seen out in the world 📚📚
October 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A copy seen out in the world 📚📚
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
Daniel Berrigan
October 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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
Daniel Berrigan
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
Not counseling, not therapy...resolution. Contact us today for details, or to start the program
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 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
Not counseling, not therapy...resolution. Contact us today for details, or to start the program
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
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...
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
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
Going home...last dogwalk of the day on this cold and rainy Sunday
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Going home...last dogwalk of the day on this cold and rainy Sunday
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 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 ☕️📰📚
Marital conflict and modern solutions
My column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
My column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
October 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Marital conflict and modern solutions
My column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
My column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
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
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 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
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A high energy start to the week...a long beach walk
October 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
A high energy start to the week...a long beach walk
The role of nonverbal communication in our conflicts- my article in this morning's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The role of nonverbal communication in our conflicts- my article in this morning's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
Saving PortElizabeth...some straight talk in my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Saving PortElizabeth...some straight talk in my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
Early morning beach walk, with summer slowly settling in
October 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Early morning beach walk, with summer slowly settling in
Pics from my recent roadtrip through the Eastern and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Very rural, with a rough, awe-inspiring beauty in places. Also, a cool little bookshop and some treasures
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Pics from my recent roadtrip through the Eastern and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Very rural, with a rough, awe-inspiring beauty in places. Also, a cool little bookshop and some treasures
Outdated workplace conflict and HR systems, and the harm it does. My weekly column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
October 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Outdated workplace conflict and HR systems, and the harm it does. My weekly column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
In my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper....keeping an eye on polarization ☕️📰
September 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
In my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper....keeping an eye on polarization ☕️📰
A surprising, but ultimately inspiring contribution to my theoretical and consulting work...storytelling as conflict tool. My 2024 article in Business Talk
September 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A surprising, but ultimately inspiring contribution to my theoretical and consulting work...storytelling as conflict tool. My 2024 article in Business Talk