Joan Feringa
@conflictnavigator.bsky.social
Scholar/practitioner/founder filling the clear gap in conflict prevention: ⛑️ Conflict First Aid™.
Evidence-based de-escalation and prevention (equivalent to medical and mental health first aid).
📌 Follow to learn, help, or ask me.
Evidence-based de-escalation and prevention (equivalent to medical and mental health first aid).
📌 Follow to learn, help, or ask me.
We’re sure not in stale mate or “as bad as it gets”. We’re all smart to be warily watching, encouraging learning (conflict mapping) and gauging where these conflicts and conditions are sustained. Do NOT hesitate to call out breeches in the human rights or values that matter. #ConflictSchool
February 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We’re sure not in stale mate or “as bad as it gets”. We’re all smart to be warily watching, encouraging learning (conflict mapping) and gauging where these conflicts and conditions are sustained. Do NOT hesitate to call out breeches in the human rights or values that matter. #ConflictSchool
When I took economics years ago, I was told that Canada gave natural resources away through exports; they profited from them in ways we haven’t and hadn’t. This is our time! Get our best recognized, recovered, refocused on our own capability for 🇨🇦 provention and kick ass.
#conflictschool
#conflictschool
February 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
When I took economics years ago, I was told that Canada gave natural resources away through exports; they profited from them in ways we haven’t and hadn’t. This is our time! Get our best recognized, recovered, refocused on our own capability for 🇨🇦 provention and kick ass.
#conflictschool
#conflictschool
Having no fun waiting for my email host to figure itself out… I wish I was built for napping 😴
Patience and boredom are a form of #conflictschool
Patience and boredom are a form of #conflictschool
January 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Having no fun waiting for my email host to figure itself out… I wish I was built for napping 😴
Patience and boredom are a form of #conflictschool
Patience and boredom are a form of #conflictschool
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Reposted by Joan Feringa
"'Patriot' sometimes reads like a thriller in which the narrative opens with 'If you’re reading this, I’m already dead.'" And so he is, but he speaks from beyond the grave, and we should listen.
@cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Navalny's posthumous memoir:
@cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Navalny's posthumous memoir:
Even in Death, Navalny Still Threatens the Putin Regime
The opposition leader’s posthumous memoir is a chronicle of a death foretold.
www.thebulwark.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"'Patriot' sometimes reads like a thriller in which the narrative opens with 'If you’re reading this, I’m already dead.'" And so he is, but he speaks from beyond the grave, and we should listen.
@cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Navalny's posthumous memoir:
@cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Navalny's posthumous memoir:
In the upcoming and now chaos, my mantra and yours IS FAR BETTER to be ‘do not react’ and navigate (stupidity, cruel and caustic “presidential” pronouncements or proceedings) scanty or misinformation with SLOW and #safestep thinking.
Call on and calm with #conflictfirstaid tenets. Demand them.
Call on and calm with #conflictfirstaid tenets. Demand them.
January 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In the upcoming and now chaos, my mantra and yours IS FAR BETTER to be ‘do not react’ and navigate (stupidity, cruel and caustic “presidential” pronouncements or proceedings) scanty or misinformation with SLOW and #safestep thinking.
Call on and calm with #conflictfirstaid tenets. Demand them.
Call on and calm with #conflictfirstaid tenets. Demand them.
More than ever, we need the calm, confidence and comforts of Conflict First Aid.
What is it? 4 simple PROventive skills that fix any harm, cost and consequences ensuring fight/flight/freeze are a resource, not a response.
Safety rather than binary is possible, profitable: better for us all.
What is it? 4 simple PROventive skills that fix any harm, cost and consequences ensuring fight/flight/freeze are a resource, not a response.
Safety rather than binary is possible, profitable: better for us all.
U.S.is
January 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
More than ever, we need the calm, confidence and comforts of Conflict First Aid.
What is it? 4 simple PROventive skills that fix any harm, cost and consequences ensuring fight/flight/freeze are a resource, not a response.
Safety rather than binary is possible, profitable: better for us all.
What is it? 4 simple PROventive skills that fix any harm, cost and consequences ensuring fight/flight/freeze are a resource, not a response.
Safety rather than binary is possible, profitable: better for us all.
Us/them binaries are hate-inducing/awful/vile: “they are wrong” vs “the argument (policy/rule/position) is wrong” is a broadly mismanaged.
Settle in calm confidence: conflict competency to navigate THAT problem and differences. Being terrible (even on our own territory) is not something to rest on.
Settle in calm confidence: conflict competency to navigate THAT problem and differences. Being terrible (even on our own territory) is not something to rest on.
Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks
BREAKING NEWS: META AND MARK ZUCKERBERG REMOVE LONG-STANDING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE SPEECH POLICIES AFTER ANNOUNCING END OF FACT-CHECKING PROGRAM | GLAAD
Meta Quietly Removes Major Sections of Hateful Conduct Policies Protecting LGBTQ People and Other Marginalized People GLAAD: “Zuckerberg’s removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard hate ...
glaad.org
January 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Us/them binaries are hate-inducing/awful/vile: “they are wrong” vs “the argument (policy/rule/position) is wrong” is a broadly mismanaged.
Settle in calm confidence: conflict competency to navigate THAT problem and differences. Being terrible (even on our own territory) is not something to rest on.
Settle in calm confidence: conflict competency to navigate THAT problem and differences. Being terrible (even on our own territory) is not something to rest on.
Who are the biggest asshats in conflict circles? Most CONFLICT experts. They relish power, fight each other. Where were they this decade of crushing stupidity, disputing systems, broken people, insane politics?
I’ll tell you: fighting and running from themselves.
It’s time for something new.
I’ll tell you: fighting and running from themselves.
It’s time for something new.
December 9, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Who are the biggest asshats in conflict circles? Most CONFLICT experts. They relish power, fight each other. Where were they this decade of crushing stupidity, disputing systems, broken people, insane politics?
I’ll tell you: fighting and running from themselves.
It’s time for something new.
I’ll tell you: fighting and running from themselves.
It’s time for something new.
So many very real memories of conflicts… most especially the thou…hun…tens… line 🤓🥰
December 6, 2024 at 5:51 PM
So many very real memories of conflicts… most especially the thou…hun…tens… line 🤓🥰
Would you…does anyone want to work in an organization or community where leaders don’t actively address this
and the red-zone consequences/costs? This is where our countries are headed…we LIVE here or we will.
and the red-zone consequences/costs? This is where our countries are headed…we LIVE here or we will.
November 30, 2024 at 7:46 AM
Would you…does anyone want to work in an organization or community where leaders don’t actively address this
and the red-zone consequences/costs? This is where our countries are headed…we LIVE here or we will.
and the red-zone consequences/costs? This is where our countries are headed…we LIVE here or we will.
Maybe it isn’t ‘news’ and clearly not "media" that will save us from conflict today, all news is now fodder and part of the ‘truth’ we exist with. 1/
November 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Maybe it isn’t ‘news’ and clearly not "media" that will save us from conflict today, all news is now fodder and part of the ‘truth’ we exist with. 1/
Brilliant take on transphobia but also anything that conflicts anyone, anywhere, entirely. Thanks @georgetakei.bsky.social for sharing it this morning.
November 21, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Brilliant take on transphobia but also anything that conflicts anyone, anywhere, entirely. Thanks @georgetakei.bsky.social for sharing it this morning.
Reposted by Joan Feringa
Fox News dominated wide swaths of federal decision-making during Donald Trump’s first presidency, as his administration effectively merged with the right-wing propaganda network that had propelled him to power.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...
How Fox powered Trump’s first term — and what that means for his second
Fox News dominated wide swaths of federal decision-making during Donald Trump’s first presidency, as his administration effectively merged with the right-wing propaganda network that had propelled him...
www.mediamatters.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Fox News dominated wide swaths of federal decision-making during Donald Trump’s first presidency, as his administration effectively merged with the right-wing propaganda network that had propelled him to power.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...
Hi hi 👋
Founder with a mission to end the cost & harm of conflict: ⛑️ Conflict First Aid™.
📌 Evidence-based, accessible deescalation of (and response) to toxicity in relationships, workplaces, communities - like medical and mental health first aid.
Follow to learn, help, or ask me.
Founder with a mission to end the cost & harm of conflict: ⛑️ Conflict First Aid™.
📌 Evidence-based, accessible deescalation of (and response) to toxicity in relationships, workplaces, communities - like medical and mental health first aid.
Follow to learn, help, or ask me.
November 13, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Hi hi 👋
Founder with a mission to end the cost & harm of conflict: ⛑️ Conflict First Aid™.
📌 Evidence-based, accessible deescalation of (and response) to toxicity in relationships, workplaces, communities - like medical and mental health first aid.
Follow to learn, help, or ask me.
Founder with a mission to end the cost & harm of conflict: ⛑️ Conflict First Aid™.
📌 Evidence-based, accessible deescalation of (and response) to toxicity in relationships, workplaces, communities - like medical and mental health first aid.
Follow to learn, help, or ask me.