Conflict Resolution (M6) 

“The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.”

— Dalai Lama

🕊️Welcome to the Peacebuilder Academy (PBA)

Every peacebuilder’s journey begins with a commitment — to yourself, your community, and to a more peaceful world. By the end of this short guide, you’ll know how to leverage the resources available to you, and begin shaping the change you want to see in the world.

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At the PBA, deliverables also double as real-world assets — notes, plans, and frameworks you create here can become working documents for your project, business, or product. Every lesson is intentionally designed to leave you with something usable, not just theoretical.

By the end of the course, you won’t just have learned — you’ll have built. You’ll walk away with a portfolio of project plans, business strategies, product outlines, and conflict resolution frameworks ready to launch, refine, or share.

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✅ Group coaching & community to guide your growth

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"Each moment offers a choice: a heart at war or a heart at peace."

– The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute

🌟Welcome to Conflict Resolution!

In Modules 1-5, you discovered how to launch an impact-driven business rooted in interests, impact, and income—empowering you to become an impact-driven entrepreneur. But that was just the beginning of your peacebuilding journey.

This module takes you deeper, equipping you with the tools to become skilled conflict managers. You'll master collaborative, interest-based negotiation techniques to co-create win-win solutions and secure lasting peace with your counterparts.

In this lesson, you’ll delve into the root causes and sources of conflict, and explore the Arbinger Institute’s transformative process for recovering inner clarity and peace. You'll discover that every moment is a choice: to embrace a heart at war, which betrays your sense of integrity, or a heart at peace, which honors and acts on "the right thing to do."

We’ll also examine the justification patterns that can quickly escalate into conflicts—whether local, national, or global—and unpack real-world examples.

Get ready! These lessons will empower you with dynamic negotiation and conflict resolution frameworks, enabling you to not just resolve conflicts, but to thrive—scaling your impact in ways that benefit all parties.

🧰Resources

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6a. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 1-5)

📌 Deliverables

1. Reflect on a recent or recurring conflict (personal, professional, or community). Map it out using the “Heart at War vs. Heart at Peace” lens from the Arbinger Institute. Identify:
   1. The root cause of the conflict.

   2. Any justification patterns you noticed.

   3. A possible win-win pathway you could propose.

   4. This reflection helps you apply theory to practice and sharpen your peacebuilder lens.

💡 AI/Tool Tip: Use ChatGPT or your PBA AI Companion (Coming Soon!) to role-play the perspectives of each party in your conflict scenario. Ask AI to suggest win-win negotiation strategies, reframe “positions” into underlying interests, and simulate dialogue options until you find an approach that fosters clarity and peace.

💫 From conflict to clarity. From purpose to profit. Accelerate your journey with Pro.

Unlock the full Peacebuilder Academy experience — designed to help you resolve conflict with confidence, launch your mission-driven business, and earn income doing what matters.
✅ Personalized course tracking & gamified learning
✅ AI-powered agent support (coming soon!)
✅ Proven frameworks, templates, and real-world use cases
✅ Group coaching & community to guide your growth

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"The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them."

– Thomas Crum

⚖️ Welcome to Conflict Analysis and Transformation!

In this lesson, you will learn to diagnose conflict situations through effective conflict analysis—understanding levers of power, drivers of change, and how to influence them using both traditional and unconventional resolution techniques.

We’ll introduce powerful negotiating frameworks and uncover the critical differences between competition and conflict while learning how to harness competition through "coopetition." This innovative approach combines collaboration and open innovation to achieve incredible outcomes—ones that surpass what any individual could accomplish alone.

This lesson lays the foundation for transforming and resolving conflict. With the tools and insights gained here, you’ll be equipped to create lasting solutions and thrive in your peacebuilding journey!

🧰Resources

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6a. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 1-5)

 📌 Deliverables

1. Choose a current or historical conflict (personal, organizational, or global).
2. Map the drivers of conflict, levers of power, and potential coopetition opportunities.
3. Highlight at least one area where competition could be reframed into collaboration to produce a win-win outcome.

 💡 AI/Tool Tip: Use ChatGPT or your PBA AI Companion (Coming Soon!) to analyze your chosen conflict from multiple stakeholder perspectives. Ask AI to identify hidden drivers, suggest unconventional resolution approaches, and brainstorm ways coopetition could unlock breakthrough solutions.

💫 Resolve conflict. Launch your impact business. Get paid to do good.

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"Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development."

— Nelson Mandela

🤝 Welcome to Lesson 3: Key Negotiation Frameworks!

In this lesson, you’ll master the core principles of three essential negotiation frameworks that will shape the rest of the module:

1. Hard Positional Bargaining (HPB): A competitive, distributive framework that focuses on "dividing the pie."

2. Integrative Negotiations: A collaborative approach that uncovers the interests behind entrenched positions, enabling the discovery and creation of win-win solutions to "expand the pie" for everyone.

3. The Bartering Mindset: A strategic planning framework designed to map the negotiation landscape, helping you craft solutions and agreements that satisfy all parties.

By embracing these frameworks, you’ll gain a fresh perspective, empowering you to uncover core concerns and transform conflicts rooted in deeply held positions.

Peacebuilders, you are fortifying your toolkit and sharpening your negotiation prowess. Keep going—you’re on the path to creating meaningful change and thriving in your peacebuilding journey!

🧰Resources:

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6a. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 1-5)

📌 Deliverables

1. Pick a real or hypothetical conflict you’re facing (personal, professional, or community).
2. Apply each of the three negotiation frameworks—Hard Positional Bargaining, Integrative Negotiations, and The Bartering Mindset—to the same scenario.
3. Write down the different outcomes each framework produces and note which one leads to the most sustainable win-win result.

💡 AI/Tool Tip: Use ChatGPT or your PBA AI Companion (Coming Soon!) to role-play your negotiation scenario from multiple sides. Ask AI to generate likely counterarguments, interests, and bartering options. This will help you practice in a safe space and uncover creative solutions before stepping into the real negotiation.

💫 Resolve conflict. Launch your impact business. Get paid to do good.

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"Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions."

— Oscar Arias

📝 Welcome to Pre-Negotiation Planning!

In this lesson, you’ll meet the negotiating alter egos that will guide you through the module: Monet, representing the monetary mindset; Indica, embodying the integrative mindset; and Bart, showcasing the bartering mindset.

You’ll dive into the 5-step framework for implementing the bartering mindset and practice using this powerful pre-negotiation tool with our Negotiations Planning Workbook, centered around the first case study: Saving the Rescue Cat Café.

Learn how to craft compelling offers—including the "Multiple Equivalent Simultaneous Offer (MESO)"—a strategy that demonstrates flexibility, preparation, and a willingness to collaborate. By exploring the full landscape of potential partners, their needs, and their offerings, you’ll develop mutually beneficial solutions that stack the ‘yeses’ and bring you closer to impactful agreements.

Peacebuilders, this lesson equips you to negotiate with clarity, creativity, and confidence. Let’s get ready to make deals that transform lives and inspire cooperation!

🧰 Resources:

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6a. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 1-5)
2. Negotiations Planning Workbook
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📌 Deliverables

1. Download and complete the Negotiations Planning Workbook using the “Saving the Rescue Cat Café” case study.
2. Apply the 5-step Bartering Mindset framework and create at least one Multiple Equivalent Simultaneous Offer (MESO) to show flexibility while aligning with partner interests.

💡 AI/Tool Tip: Use ChatGPT or your PBA AI Companion (Coming Soon!) to brainstorm potential MESOs. Share the needs and priorities of each stakeholder, then ask AI to generate 3–5 equivalent offers that balance value creatively. This helps you prepare with multiple pathways to “yes” before entering the negotiation.

💫 Resolve conflict. Launch your impact business. Get paid to do good.

Pro gives you everything you need to learn faster, build smarter, and grow sustainably — with expert support, guided tools, and (Coming Soon) AI-powered peacebuilders by your side.

🔓 Upgrade to Pro to access every deliverable, download, tool, and start turning your mission into momentum.

"Negotiation is the heart of collaboration. It is what makes conflict productive."

- Chris Voss

🤝Welcome to Single Party Negotiations!

In this lesson, you'll unlock powerful tools for meaningful and transformative negotiations. We'll introduce the Negotiations Discussion Guide and Preparation Worksheet, explore the 7 Elements of a Negotiation, and William Ury's Breakthrough Strategy—a roadmap for fostering agreement and turning adversaries into partners.

You'll also examine the barriers to cooperation through Robert Mnookin's insightful 5-step framework for wise decision-making, drawn from his book Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight. We'll discuss Post-Settlement Settlements, the art of making a deal after the deal to extract additional value and wrap up with Post-Negotiation Analysis using our Negotiations Feedback Form.

Peacebuilders, you've made incredible progress! By the end of this lesson, you'll be fully equipped to conduct expert negotiations, craft mutually beneficial solutions, and secure lasting agreements that set the stage for enduring peace. Keep building your skills—you’re creating a brighter, more collaborative future!

🧰Resources

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6a. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 1-5)
2. Negotiations Preparations Worksheet
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive
3. Negotiations Feedback Form
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive 
4. 📄 Negotiation Planning Template 
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive

📌 Deliverables

1. Download and complete the Negotiations Preparation Worksheet to plan your approach.
2. After practicing, use the Negotiations Feedback Form for post-negotiation analysis.
3. Apply the Negotiation Planning Template to integrate the:
   1. 7 Elements of Negotiation
   2. Ury’s Breakthrough Strategy
   3. Mnookin’s 5-step framework
   4. Into your real-world negotiation scenarios.

💡 AI/Tool Tip: Use ChatGPT or your PBA AI Companion (Coming Soon!) to role-play both sides of a negotiation. Provide your objectives and context, then let AI simulate counterparty positions, objections, and offers. This practice sharpens your strategy, uncovers blind spots, and prepares you for win-win agreements.

💫 From conflict to clarity. From purpose to profit. Accelerate your journey with Pro.

Unlock the full Peacebuilder Academy experience — designed to help you resolve conflict with confidence, launch your mission-driven business, and earn income doing what matters.
✅ Personalized course tracking & gamified learning
✅ AI-powered agent support (coming soon!)
✅ Proven frameworks, templates, and real-world use cases
✅ Group coaching & community to guide your growth

🔓 Upgrade to Pro and turn your peacebuilding vision into lasting, profitable change.

"Negotiation is not about winning or losing. It’s about crafting agreements that satisfy all parties involved."

– William Ury

👥Welcome to Multiparty Negotiations!

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to navigate the added interpersonal, strategic, and procedural complexities that arise when managing multiple parties and coalitions. We’ll explore the profound impact of culture on negotiator values, strategies, and tactics, using the Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural Map. This framework classifies societies along cultural dimensions like Traditional vs. Secular Values and Survival vs. Self-Expression Values, offering insights into cross-cultural negotiations.

To put theory into practice, you’ll engage in the case study: The Rescue Café's International Leap. Through this exercise, you’ll tackle a multi-party negotiation with elements such as:

• Managing Complexity

• Scaling and International Expansion: Entering new markets to grow your business or objectives

• Testing a Franchising Model

• Using a Scoring System for Hiring: Selecting the right candidates from a pool of qualified options

• Cultural Adaptation: Opening and operating a business in a foreign country

This lesson equips you to manage cultural diversity, align interests, and craft solutions that thrive in complex, multiparty scenarios. Let’s take your negotiation skills to the next level!

🧰Resources:

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6b. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 6-10)
2. Negotiations Preparations Worksheet
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive
3. Negotiations Feedback Form
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive 
4. 📄Negotiations Planning Workbook
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive

📌Deliverables: 

1. Make a Weighted Scoring System
   1. Use a Negotiations Planning Workbook.
2. Make a Cultural Cheat Sheet (I.e., Fact Sheet)

💡 AI/Tool Tip: Use ChatGPT (or your PBA AI Companion — Coming Soon!) to build your Weighted Scoring System by generating evaluation criteria and assigning weights. You can also ask AI to create a Cultural Cheat Sheet for any target country, summarizing business etiquette, negotiation norms, and key cultural dimensions from sources like Hofstede’s Insights or the Inglehart-Welzel Map. This way, you’ll enter multiparty negotiations with data-driven clarity and cross-cultural readiness.

💫 Resolve conflict. Launch your impact business. Get paid to do good.

Pro gives you everything you need to learn faster, build smarter, and grow sustainably — with expert support, guided tools, and (Coming Soon) AI-powered peacebuilders by your side.

🔓 Upgrade to Pro to access every deliverable, download, tool, template, etc., and start turning your mission into impact and income.

"...A lie always leaves a drop of poison behind... for it awakes in the defeated party a desire for vengeance..."

– Francois de Callieres, 1776

🧭Welcome to Agents & Ethics!

In recent lessons, we explored negotiations through a business lens, focusing on objective, quantifiable outcomes like creating bargaining zones using reference and target prices. Now, we shift to more subjective challenges—navigating ideology, longstanding disagreements, and personality dynamics.

In this lesson, we’ll dive into Agent-Principal Negotiations, strategizing for success while balancing the three trade-offs of truth, understanding the power of saying no, and addressing the cost of unethical behavior. Together, we’ll uncover strategies for building a golden bridge to agreement and achieving impactful outcomes.

Through the powerful case study Navigating the Gaza Strip Impasse, we’ll examine key events leading to the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. By analyzing historical negotiation failures, we’ll expand our peacebuilding toolkit with fresh approaches to addressing one of the world’s most enduring conflicts: peace in the Middle East.

The journey ahead is intense yet transformative. You’re stepping into the real-world complexities of peacebuilding, armed with the skills and insights to make a difference. Keep striving, Peacebuilder—you’re capable of achieving extraordinary solutions. Who knows, your efforts might uncover the key to creating lasting peace in the Middle East!

🧰Resources

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6b. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 6-10)
2. Negotiations Preparations Worksheet
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive
3. Negotiations Feedback Form
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive 
4. 📄 Negotiations Planning Workbook
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive

📌 Deliverables

1. Update your Negotiations Planning Workbook. 
2. Complete the negotiation exercise: Navigating the Gaza Strip Impasse.

💡 AI/Tool Tip: Use ChatGPT (or your PBA AI Companion — Coming Soon!) to role-play agent–principal negotiations, practicing how to balance truth-telling, representation, and ethics. You can also simulate scenarios like the Gaza Strip Impasse to explore alternative strategies, test different approaches, and uncover hidden opportunities for building a "golden bridge" to agreement.

💫 Resolve conflict. Launch your impact business. Get paid to do good.

Pro gives you everything you need to learn faster, build smarter, and grow sustainably — with expert support, guided tools, and (Coming Soon) AI-powered peacebuilders by your side.

🔓 Upgrade to Pro to access every deliverable, download, tool, template, etc., and start turning your mission into impact and income.

“In mediating peace, the journey begins by listening—not just to respond, but to understand."

— Christopher Andrade

🪢Welcome to Disputes & Mediation!

In this lesson, you’ll explore the key differences between disputes and negotiations, and dive into effective dispute resolution strategies. You’ll learn the Interests, Rights, and Power (IRP) Model, a framework for resolving disputes by using rights and power to redirect focus back to interests, building a golden bridge to agreement.

We’ll delve into the benefits of mediation and techniques for becoming an effective mediator. You’ll reinforce concepts from Lesson 5’s Breakthrough Strategy and insights from The Anatomy of Peace in Lesson 1, such as encouraging others to choose a heart at peace—humanizing each side and uncovering mutually beneficial solutions through integrative negotiation.

Armed with these new tools, you’ll step into the role of mediator in a negotiation exercise- Bridging Peace: A Mediated Path to Prosperity in the Middle East. You’ll analyze previous mediation attempts, identify areas for improvement, and co-create innovative solutions for achieving peace in the region.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be equipped to excel as both a mediator and negotiator—ready to resolve disputes and foster enduring peace!

🧰Resources:

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6b. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 6-10)
2. Negotiations Preparations Worksheet
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive
3. Negotiations Feedback Form
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive 
4. 📄 Negotiations Planning Workbook
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive

📌Deliverables 

1. Update your Negotiations Planning Workbook. 
2. Complete the Mediation Exercise- Bridging Peace: A Mediated Path to Prosperity in the Middle East
3. Conduct a Post-Settlement Settlement 

 💡 AI/Tool Tip:  Use ChatGPT or your PBA AI Companion (Coming Soon!) to roleplay as mediator in your dispute exercise. Ask AI to embody each party’s perspective, simulate dialogue, and test creative “golden bridge” solutions. This practice will sharpen your neutrality, empathy, and ability to craft win-win outcomes before engaging in real-world mediations.

💫 Resolve conflict. Launch your impact business. Get paid to do good.

Pro gives you everything you need to learn faster, build smarter, and grow sustainably — with expert support, guided tools, and (Coming Soon) AI-powered peacebuilders by your side.

🔓 Upgrade to Pro to access every deliverable, download, tool, template, etc., and start turning your mission into impact and income.

"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

– Mahatma Gandhi

✊Welcome to Nonviolent Civil Resistance (CVR)!

What do you do when negotiations falter, mediation efforts collapse, and violent conflict erupts? Throughout this module, you’ve learned how to resolve conflict through collaborative, interest-based negotiation. But conflict is unpredictable, dynamic, and often relentless—even the best plans can crumble under pressure.

When words fail and the path forward seems blocked, there’s another way: nonviolent civil resistance. In this lesson, you’ll explore the power of nonviolence, backed by compelling statistics that prove it’s far more effective than armed resistance. You’ll uncover how peaceful protests, civil resistance, and People Power can create freer, more peaceful societies, offering a transformative alternative to violence.

We’ll equip you with critical tools for planning and executing civil resistance campaigns, introducing over 198 tactics to help you drive meaningful change. Finally, you’ll put these strategies into action through an exercise: crafting a nonviolent campaign for achieving peace in the Middle East, building on all you’ve learned so far.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll possess a fully stocked conflict resolution toolkit, ready to harness the incredible potential of nonviolent resistance to transform conflict and inspire lasting peace!

🧰Resources

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6b. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 6-10)
2. Civil Resistance Strategy Chart
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive 
3. Negotiations Preparations Worksheet
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive
4. Negotiations Feedback Form
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive 
5. 📄 Negotiations Planning Workbook
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive

📌Deliverables 

1. Update your Negotiations Planning Workbook. 
2. Complete the final Negotiation Exercise: Planning a Nonviolent Campaign for Peace in the Middle East. 
   1. Create a Civil Resistance Strategy Chart.

💡 AI/Tool Tip: Use ChatGPT or your PBA AI Companion (Coming Soon!) to map out a nonviolent campaign. Start by sharing your target issue, stakeholders, and goals—then ask AI to generate potential tactics (from boycotts to symbolic actions), sequence them into a strategy, and anticipate countermeasures. This simulation helps refine your campaign into a realistic, impactful action plan.

💫 Resolve conflict. Launch your impact business. Get paid to do good.

Pro gives you everything you need to learn faster, build smarter, and grow sustainably — with expert support, guided tools, and (Coming Soon) AI-powered peacebuilders by your side.

🔓 Upgrade to Pro to access every deliverable, download, tool, template, etc., and start turning your mission into impact and income.

"Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth—or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance."

- Kenneth Cloke

🏆Congratulations on Completing Module 6: Conflict Resolution!

You’ve achieved so much, becoming a skilled conflict manager and true peacebuilder. You’re now equipped to launch impact-driven businesses, resolve conflicts through integrative negotiations and mediation, and harness the transformative power of nonviolent civil resistance. The work you’ve done here is incredible—truly embodying the change you wish to see in the world.

But this is not the end—it’s the beginning of your journey. Armed with tools, strategies, and frameworks, you are ready to take on real-world challenges, solve conflicts, build impactful businesses, and create a better world—one person, one problem, and one solution at a time. Go out there, do good, and achieve meaningful success.

Train others, inspire them, and lead by example. The courage and dedication you’ve shown to face the world’s toughest problems are nothing short of extraordinary. Your efforts pave the way to self-actualization, transcendence, peace of mind, and external peace.

It has been an absolute honor and privilege to work alongside you. Our journey together isn’t ending—it’s evolving. We are now partners in this noble cause, united as peacebuilders. Keep thriving and making an impact. I’ll see you in the next chapter of this incredible journey. Happy peacebuilding!

🧰 Resources

1. Use this interactive mind map as your visual notes! (Note: Best Viewed on Desktop)
   Right click the link below and open the AYOA mind map in a new tab or window — no account or login required. It’s safe, free to use, and designed to help you follow along and review key concepts.
   1. M6a. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 1-5)
   2. M6b. Public Mind Map: Conflict Resolution (Lessons 6-10)
2. Civil Resistance Strategy Chart
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive 
3. Negotiations Preparations Worksheet
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive
4. Negotiations Feedback Form
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive 
5. 📄 Negotiations Planning Workbook
   1. 🔒 Pro Exclusive

📌 Module 6 Key Deliverables: 

1. Conduct Pre-Negotiation Planning
   1. Update your Negotiations Planning Workbook
2. Complete all Negotiation Exercises:
   1. Single Party, Single Issue Negotiation (M6.5.)
   2. Multiparty, Multi-issue Negotiation (M6.6.)
      1. Make a Weighted Scoring System
   3. Be a Mediator (M6.8.)
   4. Attempt a Post-Settlement Settlement (M6.8.)
   5. Planning a Nonviolent Campaign for Peace in the Middle East (M6.9.) 
      1. Create a Civil Resistance Strategy Chart 
3. Conduct Post Negotiation Analysis 

💡 AI/Tool Tip: Use ChatGPT or your PBA AI Companion (Coming Soon!) to streamline your Module 6 deliverables. Upload your Negotiations Planning Workbook or notes, and let AI help you:

• Generate scenarios for single and multiparty negotiations

• Build weighted scoring systems for complex decisions

• Role-play mediation or resistance strategies

• Draft and refine your Civil Resistance Strategy Chart

AI can act as both sparring partner and strategist—helping you pressure-test your ideas, anticipate counter-moves, and polish your deliverables into practical, impact-ready tools.

💫 From conflict to clarity. From purpose to profit. Accelerate your journey with Pro.

Unlock the full Peacebuilder Academy experience — designed to help you resolve conflict with confidence, launch your mission-driven business, and earn income doing what matters.
✅ Personalized course tracking & gamified learning
✅ AI-powered agent support (coming soon!)
✅ Proven frameworks, templates, and real-world use cases
✅ Group coaching & community to guide your growth

🔓 Upgrade to Pro and turn your peacebuilding vision into lasting, profitable change.