Recently The Resolution Center (North Shore Community Mediation Center) Executive Director, Hann Bowen, was featured www.SalemNews.com with a letter to the editor.  The letter "The Importance of Conflict Resolution" begins with....

"To the editor:

We all know what it feels like to be in conflict: Dinner with friends/family who have opposing political views, neighbors with different ideas about fireworks or four-legged friends, getting caught in the middle of a Facebook ‘discussion’ gone off the rails… and we wonder how we can get along.

I’ve been honored to work with a group of Essex County leaders over the last two weeks who’ve decided to respond to that feeling of division by bringing people together through mediation. Rather than avoid the conflict that’s inevitable, they are transforming it into opportunity for people to connect, communicate, and bridge the divide.