“To significantly expand our global mediation capacity and move beyond “us versus them” conflicts, we need to recognize that there is no “them” anymore, there is only “us.” The “them” we create is only the flip side of our own fear, poor communications, primitive conflict resolution skills, failures of collaboration, accumulated pain and disappointment flowing from our reliance on militaristic power- and legalistic right-based interactions, leading to a loss of capacity for empathy and compassion, and a lack of commitment to strengthen interest-based conflict resolution capacity with our opponents.”