Skip to content Kindness Campaign was created in 1994 as a part of the Colorado Institute for Conflict Resolution.
Kindness Central was created in 2024 to bring Kindness Champions and Organizations together into a collaborative, learning environment.
CICRCL’s motto, Evolutionary Resources for Shifting Consciousness, describes its social mission, and the underlying principles that are expressed through its various projects, programs, and products.
CICRCL’s Mission, as defined in its official bylaws, includes the following:
To promote, foster, educate and encourage individuals to use peaceful means for resolving conflicts,
To educate the general public, government leaders, business leaders, mediators, arbitrators, peace makers, clergy, counselors, therapist and educators through public lectures, seminars, conferences, workshops and trainings,
To disseminate information through books, videotapes, curriculum materials, and computer technology,
To conduct research and develop effective methods and materials for the peaceful resolution of conflicts and creative living,
To cooperate with other persons, organizations, and corporations to educate the public on the peaceful resolution of conflicts and creative living.
CICRCL was created as the result of my experiences related to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. During the first half of 1986 I was on sabbatical leave from UCCS living and studying in Zurich, Switzerland. While hiking the beautiful countryside and for three days received 1000 % of normal radiation. I realized what can happen when countries and people do not attempt to resolve their conflicts.
When I returned to Colorado Springs later that year I helped start CICRCL, a non-profit tax exempt Institute designed to study methods to resolve conflicts at all levels. In pursuit of this goal, I helped organize an International Conference on Conflict Resolution. It was attended by over 300 of the leading thinkers and doers from 17 different countries.
The most useful outcome of this Conference was that I got to interview these people and ask them what worked best about their approach and what didn’t work as well. What I learned from them was that their approach worked well in resolving conflicts of wants and needs but did not work well in resolving conflicts of values and beliefs. They also told me that they did not know what to do when strong emotions erupted during a conflict resolution session. This showed me where the work of CICRCL had to focus us. This became the mission: of CICRCL to study new ways to resolve conflicts at all levels of human interaction. This has led to the creation of the CICRCL model of conflict resolution, which has been described in detail in the textbook, Conflict Resolution: The Partnership Way and many other innovative tools.
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