TED Talks
TED: Education is a fundamental right for every child | Makhtoum Abdalla
For children growing up in refugee camps, education is a powerful tool of liberation. In this inspiring talk, Makhtoum Abdalla, displaced as a child in Sudan and now living with his family in the Otash camp in Darfur, shares his biggest...
Crash Course Kids
Water Fight!
So, what happens when there's not enough water? Well... not good things. Do we let homes have more water for showering and cooking? Or do we let farms have the water for growing crops? There aren't any easy solutions, but today Sabrina...
TED Talks
TED: The path to ending ethnic conflicts | Stefan Wolff
Civil wars and ethnic conflicts have brought the world incredible suffering, but Stefan Wolff's figures show that, in the last 20 years, their number has steadily decreased. He extracts critical lessons from Northern Ireland, Liberia,...
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The French Revolution: Crash Course European History
In 1789, the French Monarchy's habit of supporting democratic popular revolutions in North America backfired. Today, we're talking about the French Revolution. Across the world, people were rising up to throw off monarchies, and Louis...
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Conflict in Israel and Palestine through 2015: Crash Course World History #223
In which John Green teaches you about conflict in Israel and Palestine. This conflict is often cast as a long-term beef going back thousands of years, and rooted in a clash between religions. Well, that's not quite true. What is true is...
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18th Century Warfare: Crash Course European History
European powers had a lot of wars in the 18th century, and they weren't confined to Europe. Conflict raged across the globe, in what might be called a World War...but we don't call it that, because we already have a couple of those...
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Community Ecology: Feel the Love - Crash Course Ecology
Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous,...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What did democracy really mean in Athens? - Melissa Schwartzberg
While we might consider elections to be the cornerstone of democracy, the Athenians who coined the term actually employed a lottery system to choose most of their politicians. Melissa Schwartzberg describes the ins and outs of the...
TED Talks
TED: The mathematics of war | Sean Gourley
By analyzing raw data on violent incidents in the Iraq war and others, Sean Gourley and his team claim to have found a surprisingly strong mathematical relationship linking the fatality and frequency of attacks.
TED Talks
TED: How to protect fast-growing cities from failing | Robert Muggah
Worldwide, violence is on the decline, but in the crowded cities of the global south — cities like Aleppo, Bamako and Caracas — violence is actually accelerating, fueled by the drug trade, mass unemployment and civil unrest. Security...
TED Talks
JR: My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out
French street artist JR uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out.
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How to Handle Conflict: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
How to Handle Conflict Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #13
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Major Sociological Paradigms: Crash Course Sociology
This week we introduce sociology’s three major theoretical paradigms, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of each paradigm.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Karin Hurt and David Dye - Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict
Karin Hurt inspires courage confidence, and innovation. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she’s known for growing courageous leaders, building great cultures, and inspiring high-performance teams. She’s the award Winning Author of...
Curated Video
What are Conflict and Conflict Management?
Conflict is an inevitable part of project life. And it's not always bad. But, often, it is. It can be stressful, harm productivity, spoil working relationships, and lead to damaging behaviors.
Curated Video
Top 15 Management Skills that Project Managers Need to Master
What are the most important non-Project Management skills for Project Managers to study and master?
Curated Video
Overload, Overwhelm, and a Yelling Client (Bullying)
Three issues in one video: overload, overwhelm, and yelling clients (bullying). One of the members of our OnlinePMCourses community wrote to me. I was reading the 'Feeling Overwhelmed by Your Project? What to Do' article...
Curated Video
How to Understand the Stages of Conflict
In an earlier video, we looked at the Sources of Conflict. In this video, we will focus on the stages of conflict: Escalation and De-escalation. How to Understand the Sources of Conflict: • How to Understand the Sources of Conf... The...
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Top 7 Leadership Tools and Methods for Team and Project Leaders
There is a wealth of great leadership tools and ideas that you can apply to your professional practice. Let's look at seven of them. 1. Get people to Honor Commitments Play to their conscience: Use "the Jiminy Cricket effect". 2....
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Why China Is Building Artificial Islands To Control The South China Sea
China lays claim to basically the entire South China Sea by way of its infamous "nine-dash line." But while China claims the entire area, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and Taiwan each have their own claims as well. This has...
Curated Video
Oregon Country: How The Pacific Northwest Almost Became Canadian
The Pacific Northwest is a vibrant region of the United States. And British Columbia is an incredible province of Canada. But while both these regions are separated by an international border, at one point, it really wasn't clear whether...
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Project Management Lessons from Star Trek
7 lessons from Star Trek that do not demand you are a big Star Trek fan, Trekkie, Trekker or whatever. All you’ll need is a glancing familiarity with one of the main shows or films. In Star Trek, the leading characters represent valuable...
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How to Understand the Sources of Conflict
If you look on the web, you’ll find there are only three sources of conflict… or maybe it’s five… or eight… The truth is - as anyone who has lived any length of time knows – that there are as many causes of conflict as combinations of...
Curated Video
How to Facilitate a Meeting
As a Project Manager, you’ll often need to facilitate meetings. In this video, we will look at the basic facilitation techniques and the disciplines for how to facilitate a meeting. Here's what this video covers 00:00 - Project Managers...