Uncommon Ground

From conflict to change

An idea that first found its expression as a television show and book (Uncommon Ground: Dialogues Between Business and Social Leaders, 2011) created by Rohini Nilekani, Uncommon Ground has always stood for the value that the balance between samaaj, sarkaar and bazaar (society, government and business) needs to be reestablished through processes of dialogue and exchange that are embedded as a way of working into the fabric of society itself.

Co-created as a dynamic and expanding movement with the CAMP Advanced Mediation Practice and other network partners, Uncommon Ground aims to build a societal muscle for transforming conflict and dissonance into creative impetus for change, by serving as a conduit of shared know-how and competencies.

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Bolti Bandh

Learning to Listen

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CAMP Arbitration & Mediation Practice

Preventive Resolution

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Uncommon Ground seeks to build a systemic framework based on a multi-disciplinary approach including use of the principles of dispute resolution through mediation, with emphasis on self-determination and collaboration, towards catalyzing dialogue, not only to create shared spaces across various forums and different sections of society but also to mobilise societal actors and generate systemic change.

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This is the most serious crisis since World War II. Politicians must step up; voters must allow them to. Politicians are elected because they campaign in poetry, but voters don’t always account for the fact that elected representatives must govern in prose. That chasm between the promise and the delivery becomes more dangerous at times […]

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Uncommon Ground

Uncommon Ground – Rohini Nilekani

This book of conversations between people holding different points of view has a deliberately misleading title. Because Rohini Nilekani has managed to show that in the most uncommon of grounds, between the most adversarial of positions, there can be found something in common if the two sides are willing to at least try and see […]

Jan 30, 2012 | Article

Uncommon Ground

Constructive Dialogues

The social responsibility of A business is to increase its profits,” wrote Friedman in the New York Times magazine in 1970. While there’d be fewer takers of his doctrine in the present day corporate world, the subject is still not a comfortable one to debate. And that’s precisely why Nilekani’s Uncommon Ground makes for a […]

Dec 11, 2011 | Article

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