After the Israel-Hamas war began, my 11-year-old son Marty wanted me to sum it up. “Who started it?” he asked as if generations of suffering could be squeezed into a 30-second video on YouTube Shorts.

Fear and resistance in communication can arise when individuals or teams need to work through disagreements or differing perspectives. This area is often called conflict management. When you consider ...

On a campus with more than 30,000 people, we encounter different perspectives, behaviors and beliefs with everyone we meet. Sometimes disagreements can happen as we get to know others—it might be with ...