"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
- Dorothy Thompson

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
- Ronald Reagan

One of the many conflicts on Project Runway:

Timothy and Miranda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdGYpx9P_5w

"I’ve always believed that a lot of the troubles in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other."
- Ronald Reagan

"Avoiding conflict isn’t peacemaking. Avoiding conflict means running away from the mess while peacemaking means running into the middle of it. Peacemaking means addressing those issues that caused conflict in the first place."
- Unknown

#MainMessageForToday
Pretending everything is okay is one way to avoid conflict. "I will pretend this doesn't bother me because I don't want to start a fight," you might say. It is better to address the issues.

Theme for the week 9/27 - 10/3: Conflict.