The walk from "no" to "yes" | WIlliam Ury | TEDxMidwest
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0:16 - 0:19Well, the subject of difficult negotiation
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0:19 - 0:23reminds me of one of my favorite stories
from the Middle East, -
0:23 - 0:26of a man who left
to his three sons, 17 camels. -
0:26 - 0:28To the first son, he left half the camels;
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0:28 - 0:31to the second son,
he left a third of the camels; -
0:31 - 0:34and to the youngest son,
he left a ninth of the camels. -
0:34 - 0:38The three sons got into a negotiation --
17 doesn't divide by two. -
0:38 - 0:39It doesn't divide by three.
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0:39 - 0:41It doesn't divide by nine.
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0:41 - 0:43Brotherly tempers started to get strained.
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0:43 - 0:45Finally, in desperation,
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0:45 - 0:48they went and they consulted
a wise old woman. -
0:48 - 0:51The wise old woman thought
about their problem for a long time, -
0:51 - 0:55and finally she came back and said,
"Well, I don't know if I can help you, -
0:55 - 0:57but at least, if you want,
you can have my camel." -
0:57 - 0:59So then, they had 18 camels.
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0:59 - 1:02The first son took his half --
half of 18 is nine. -
1:02 - 1:04The second son took his third --
a third of 18 is six. -
1:04 - 1:08The youngest son took his ninth --
a ninth of 18 is two. -
1:08 - 1:11You get 17.
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1:11 - 1:12They had one camel left over.
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1:12 - 1:14They gave it back to the wise old woman.
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1:14 - 1:16(Laughter)
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1:16 - 1:18Now, if you think
about that story for a moment, -
1:18 - 1:22I think it resembles a lot
of the difficult negotiations -
1:22 - 1:23we get involved in.
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1:23 - 1:26They start off like 17 camels,
no way to resolve it. -
1:26 - 1:27Somehow, what we need to do
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1:27 - 1:31is step back from those situations,
like that wise old woman, -
1:31 - 1:33look at the situation through fresh eyes
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1:33 - 1:35and come up with an 18th camel.
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1:36 - 1:38Finding that 18th camel
in the world's conflicts -
1:38 - 1:40has been my life passion.
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1:40 - 1:44I basically see humanity
a bit like those three brothers. -
1:44 - 1:45We're all one family.
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1:46 - 1:48We know that scientifically,
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1:48 - 1:50thanks to the communications revolution,
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1:50 - 1:53all the tribes on the planet --
all 15,000 tribes -- -
1:53 - 1:55are in touch with each other.
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1:56 - 1:58And it's a big family reunion.
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1:58 - 2:00And yet, like many family reunions,
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2:00 - 2:02it's not all peace and light.
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2:02 - 2:04There's a lot of conflict,
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2:04 - 2:08and the question is:
How do we deal with our differences? -
2:08 - 2:10How do we deal with
our deepest differences, -
2:10 - 2:12given the human propensity for conflict
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2:12 - 2:17and the human genius at devising
weapons of enormous destruction? -
2:17 - 2:19That's the question.
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2:19 - 2:24As I've spent the last better part
of three decades, almost four, -
2:24 - 2:25traveling the world,
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2:25 - 2:29trying to work, getting
involved in conflicts -
2:29 - 2:32ranging from Yugoslavia to the Middle East
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2:32 - 2:34to Chechnya to Venezuela --
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2:34 - 2:37some of the most difficult conflicts
on the face of the planet -- -
2:37 - 2:40I've been asking myself that question.
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2:40 - 2:43And I think I've found, in some ways,
what is the secret to peace. -
2:43 - 2:45It's actually surprisingly simple.
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2:45 - 2:48It's not easy, but it's simple.
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2:48 - 2:50It's not even new.
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2:50 - 2:53It may be one of our most
ancient human heritages. -
2:53 - 2:56The secret to peace is us.
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2:56 - 3:01It's us who act as a surrounding
community around any conflict, -
3:01 - 3:03who can play a constructive role.
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3:03 - 3:07Let me give you just a story, an example.
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3:07 - 3:09About 20 years ago,
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3:09 - 3:12I was in South Africa,
working with the parties in that conflict, -
3:12 - 3:14and I had an extra month,
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3:14 - 3:18so I spent some time living
with several groups of San Bushmen. -
3:18 - 3:22I was curious about them, about the way
in which they resolve conflict. -
3:22 - 3:26Because, after all, within living memory,
they were hunters and gatherers, -
3:26 - 3:28living pretty much
like our ancestors lived -
3:28 - 3:30for maybe 99 percent of the human story.
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3:31 - 3:34And all the men have these poison arrows
that they use for hunting -- -
3:34 - 3:36absolutely fatal.
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3:36 - 3:38So how do they deal
with their differences? -
3:38 - 3:43Well, what I learned is, whenever
tempers rise in those communities, -
3:43 - 3:46someone goes and hides
the poison arrows out in the bush, -
3:46 - 3:50and then everyone sits around
in a circle like this, -
3:50 - 3:53and they sit and they talk and they talk.
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3:53 - 3:55It may take two days,
three days, four days, -
3:55 - 3:58but they don't rest
until they find a resolution -
3:58 - 4:01or better yet -- a reconciliation.
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4:01 - 4:03And if tempers are still too high,
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4:03 - 4:05then they send someone
off to visit some relatives, -
4:05 - 4:07as a cooling-off period.
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4:07 - 4:10Well, that system is, I think,
probably the system -
4:10 - 4:12that kept us alive to this point,
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4:12 - 4:14given our human tendencies.
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4:14 - 4:17That system, I call "the third side."
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4:17 - 4:21Because if you think about it,
normally when we think of conflict, -
4:21 - 4:22when we describe it,
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4:22 - 4:24there's always two sides --
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4:24 - 4:26it's Arabs versus Israelis,
labor versus management, -
4:26 - 4:29husband versus wife,
Republicans versus Democrats. -
4:29 - 4:31But what we don't often see
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4:31 - 4:34is that there's always a third side,
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4:34 - 4:37and the third side of the conflict is us,
it's the surrounding community, -
4:37 - 4:39it's the friends, the allies,
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4:39 - 4:41the family members, the neighbors.
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4:41 - 4:44And we can play
an incredibly constructive role. -
4:44 - 4:48Perhaps the most fundamental way
in which the third side can help -
4:48 - 4:52is to remind the parties
of what's really at stake. -
4:52 - 4:54For the sake of the kids,
for the sake of the family, -
4:54 - 4:57for the sake of the community,
for the sake of the future, -
4:57 - 5:00let's stop fighting for a moment
and start talking. -
5:00 - 5:02Because, the thing is,
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5:02 - 5:03when we're involved in conflict,
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5:03 - 5:06it's very easy to lose perspective.
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5:06 - 5:08It's very easy to react.
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5:08 - 5:10Human beings -- we're reaction machines.
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5:10 - 5:12And as the saying goes,
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5:12 - 5:15when angry, you will make the best speech
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5:15 - 5:16you will ever regret.
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5:16 - 5:18(Laughter)
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5:18 - 5:21And so the third side reminds us of that.
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5:21 - 5:23The third side helps us go to the balcony,
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5:23 - 5:26which is a metaphor
for a place of perspective, -
5:26 - 5:28where we can keep our eyes on the prize.
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5:28 - 5:32Let me tell you a little story
from my own negotiating experience. -
5:32 - 5:37Some years ago, I was involved
as a facilitator in some very tough talks -
5:37 - 5:40between the leaders of Russia
and the leaders of Chechnya. -
5:41 - 5:43There was a war going on, as you know.
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5:44 - 5:47And we met in the Hague,
in the Peace Palace, -
5:47 - 5:51in the same room where the Yugoslav
war-crimes tribunal was taking place. -
5:51 - 5:54And the talks got off
to a rather rocky start -
5:54 - 5:58when the vice president of Chechnya
began by pointing at the Russians -
5:58 - 6:00and said, "You should stay
right here in your seats, -
6:00 - 6:03because you're going
to be on trial for war crimes." -
6:03 - 6:05And then he turned to me and said,
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6:05 - 6:07"You're an American.
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6:07 - 6:10Look at what you Americans
are doing in Puerto Rico." -
6:10 - 6:13And my mind started racing, "Puerto Rico?
What do I know about Puerto Rico?" -
6:13 - 6:15I started reacting.
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6:15 - 6:16(Laughter)
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6:16 - 6:19But then, I tried to remember
to go to the balcony. -
6:19 - 6:20And then when he paused
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6:20 - 6:22and everyone looked at me for a response,
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6:22 - 6:25from a balcony perspective,
I was able to thank him for his remarks -
6:25 - 6:28and say, "I appreciate
your criticism of my country -
6:28 - 6:30and I take it as a sign
that we're among friends -
6:30 - 6:33and can speak candidly to one another."
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6:33 - 6:34(Laughter)
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6:34 - 6:37"And what we're here to do is not
to talk about Puerto Rico or the past. -
6:37 - 6:39We're here to see
if we can figure out a way -
6:39 - 6:42to stop the suffering
and the bloodshed in Chechnya." -
6:42 - 6:45The conversation got back on track.
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6:45 - 6:47That's the role of the third side,
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6:47 - 6:49to help the parties go to the balcony.
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6:50 - 6:52Now let me take you, for a moment,
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6:52 - 6:55to what's widely regarded as the world's
most difficult conflict, -
6:55 - 6:57or the most impossible conflict,
the Middle East. -
6:57 - 7:01Question is: where's the third side there?
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7:01 - 7:03How could we possibly go to the balcony?
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7:03 - 7:07Now, I don't pretend to have an answer
to the Middle East conflict, -
7:07 - 7:11but I think I've got a first step --
literally, a first step -- -
7:11 - 7:14something that any one of us
could do as third-siders. -
7:14 - 7:16Let me just ask you one question first.
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7:16 - 7:19How many of you in the last years
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7:21 - 7:23have ever found yourself
worrying about the Middle East -
7:23 - 7:25and wondering what anyone could do?
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7:25 - 7:27Just out of curiosity, how many of you?
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7:27 - 7:30OK, so the great majority of us.
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7:30 - 7:32And here, it's so far away.
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7:32 - 7:35Why do we pay so much attention
to this conflict? -
7:35 - 7:37Is it the number of deaths?
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7:37 - 7:40There are a hundred times more people
who die in a conflict in Africa -
7:40 - 7:42than in the Middle East.
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7:42 - 7:43No, it's because of the story,
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7:43 - 7:47because we feel personally
involved in that story. -
7:47 - 7:51Whether we're Christians, Muslims or Jews,
religious or non-religious, -
7:51 - 7:53we feel we have a personal stake in it.
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7:53 - 7:54Stories matter;
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7:54 - 7:56as an anthropologist, I know that.
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7:56 - 7:59Stories are what we use
to transmit knowledge. -
7:59 - 8:01They give meaning to our lives.
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8:01 - 8:04That's what we tell here
at TED, we tell stories. -
8:04 - 8:05Stories are the key.
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8:05 - 8:07And so my question is --
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8:08 - 8:12yes, let's try and resolve the politics
there in the Middle East, -
8:12 - 8:15but let's also take a look at the story.
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8:15 - 8:17Let's try to get at the root
of what it's all about. -
8:17 - 8:20Let's see if we can apply
the third side to it. -
8:20 - 8:22What would that mean?
What is the story there? -
8:22 - 8:26Now, as anthropologists, we know
that every culture has an origin story. -
8:27 - 8:29What's the origin story
of the Middle East? -
8:29 - 8:31In a phrase, it's:
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8:31 - 8:32Four thousand years ago,
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8:32 - 8:36a man and his family walked
across the Middle East, -
8:36 - 8:39and the world has never
been the same since. -
8:39 - 8:42That man, of course, was Abraham.
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8:43 - 8:46And what he stood for was unity,
the unity of the family; -
8:46 - 8:48he's the father of us all.
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8:48 - 8:52But it's not just what he stood for,
it's what his message was. -
8:52 - 8:54His basic message was unity too,
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8:54 - 8:57the interconnectedness of it all,
the unity of it all. -
8:57 - 9:00And his basic value was respect,
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9:00 - 9:02was kindness toward strangers.
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9:02 - 9:05That's what he's known for,
his hospitality. -
9:06 - 9:07So in that sense,
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9:07 - 9:11he's the symbolic third side
of the Middle East. -
9:11 - 9:16He's the one who reminds us
that we're all part of a greater whole. -
9:17 - 9:19Now, think about that for a moment.
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9:20 - 9:23Today, we face the scourge of terrorism.
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9:23 - 9:24What is terrorism?
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9:25 - 9:28Terrorism is basically
taking an innocent stranger -
9:28 - 9:33and treating them as an enemy
whom you kill in order to create fear. -
9:33 - 9:35What's the opposite of terrorism?
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9:35 - 9:37It's taking an innocent stranger
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9:37 - 9:41and treating them as a friend
whom you welcome into your home, -
9:41 - 9:44in order to sow and create understanding
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9:44 - 9:46or respect, or love.
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9:47 - 9:52So what if, then, you took
the story of Abraham, -
9:52 - 9:53which is a third-side story,
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9:53 - 9:56what if that could be --
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9:56 - 9:58because Abraham stands for hospitality --
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9:59 - 10:02what if that could be
an antidote to terrorism? -
10:02 - 10:06What if that could be a vaccine
against religious intolerance? -
10:06 - 10:08How would you bring that story to life?
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10:08 - 10:11Now, it's not enough just to tell a story.
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10:11 - 10:15That's powerful, but people need
to experience the story. -
10:15 - 10:17They need to be able to live the story.
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10:17 - 10:18How would you do that?
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10:18 - 10:21And that was my thinking
of how would you do that. -
10:21 - 10:23And that's what comes
to the first step here. -
10:23 - 10:25Because the simple way to do that is:
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10:25 - 10:27you go for a walk.
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10:27 - 10:31You go for a walk
in the footsteps of Abraham. -
10:31 - 10:34You retrace the footsteps of Abraham.
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10:34 - 10:37Because walking has a real power.
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10:37 - 10:40You know, as an anthropologist,
walking is what made us human. -
10:40 - 10:44It's funny -- when you walk,
you walk side-by-side, -
10:44 - 10:46in the same common direction.
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10:47 - 10:49Now if I were to come to you face-to-face
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10:49 - 10:51and come this close to you,
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10:51 - 10:54you would feel threatened.
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10:55 - 10:57But if I walk shoulder-to-shoulder,
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10:57 - 10:59even touching shoulders,
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10:59 - 11:01it's no problem.
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11:01 - 11:03Who fights while they walk?
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11:03 - 11:06That's why in negotiations,
often, when things get tough, -
11:06 - 11:08people go for walks in the woods.
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11:08 - 11:13So the idea came to me
of, what about inspiring a path, -
11:13 - 11:17a route -- think the Silk Route,
think the Appalachian Trail -- -
11:17 - 11:21that followed in the footsteps of Abraham?
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11:21 - 11:23People said, "That's crazy. You can't.
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11:23 - 11:27You can't retrace the footsteps
of Abraham -- it's too insecure, -
11:27 - 11:29you've got to cross all these borders,
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11:29 - 11:31it goes across 10 different countries
in the Middle East, -
11:31 - 11:33because it unites them all."
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11:33 - 11:35And so we studied the idea at Harvard.
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11:35 - 11:36We did our due diligence.
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11:36 - 11:37And then a few years ago,
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11:37 - 11:40a group of us, about 25 of us
from 10 different countries, -
11:40 - 11:43decided to see if we could retrace
the footsteps of Abraham, -
11:43 - 11:46going from his initial birthplace
in the city of Urfa -
11:46 - 11:48in Southern Turkey, Northern Mesopotamia.
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11:48 - 11:51And we then took a bus and took some walks
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11:51 - 11:55and went to Harran, where, in the Bible,
he sets off on his journey. -
11:55 - 11:58Then we crossed the border
into Syria, went to Aleppo, -
11:58 - 12:00which, turns out, is named after Abraham.
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12:00 - 12:02We went to Damascus,
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12:02 - 12:04which has a long history
associated with Abraham. -
12:04 - 12:07We then came to Northern Jordan,
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12:07 - 12:12to Jerusalem -- which is all
about Abraham -- to Bethlehem, -
12:12 - 12:15and finally, to the place
where he's buried, in Hebron. -
12:15 - 12:18So effectively, we went from womb to tomb.
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12:18 - 12:19We showed it could be done.
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12:19 - 12:21It was an amazing journey.
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12:21 - 12:23Let me ask you a question.
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12:23 - 12:27How many of you have had the experience
of being in a strange neighborhood -
12:27 - 12:29or strange land,
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12:29 - 12:32and a total stranger, perfect stranger,
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12:32 - 12:35comes up to you
and shows you some kindness -- -
12:35 - 12:38maybe invites you into their home,
gives you a drink, -
12:38 - 12:40gives you a coffee, gives you a meal?
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12:40 - 12:42How many of you have ever
had that experience? -
12:42 - 12:45That's the essence of the Abraham Path.
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12:45 - 12:48That's what you discover as you go
into these villages in the Middle East -
12:48 - 12:49where you expect hostility,
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12:49 - 12:52and you get the most amazing hospitality,
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12:52 - 12:53all associated with Abraham:
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12:53 - 12:57"In the name of Father Ibrahim,
let me offer you some food." -
12:57 - 12:59So what we discovered
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12:59 - 13:02is that Abraham is not just a figure
out of a book for those people; -
13:02 - 13:04he's alive, he's a living presence.
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13:05 - 13:07And to make a long story short,
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13:07 - 13:09in the last couple of years now,
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13:09 - 13:13thousands of people have begun to walk
parts of the path of Abraham -
13:13 - 13:15in the Middle East,
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13:15 - 13:18enjoying the hospitality
of the people there. -
13:18 - 13:21They've begun to walk
in Israel and Palestine, -
13:21 - 13:24in Jordan, in Turkey, in Syria.
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13:24 - 13:26It's an amazing experience.
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13:26 - 13:28Men, women, young people, old people --
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13:28 - 13:31more women than men,
actually, interestingly. -
13:31 - 13:33For those who can't walk,
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13:33 - 13:35who are unable to get there right now,
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13:35 - 13:39people started to organize walks
in cities, in their own communities. -
13:39 - 13:41In Cincinnati, for instance,
they organized a walk -
13:41 - 13:45from a church to a mosque to a synagogue
and all had an Abrahamic meal together. -
13:45 - 13:47It was Abraham Path Day.
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13:47 - 13:49In Sáo Paulo, Brazil,
it's become an annual event -
13:49 - 13:53for thousands of people to run
in a virtual Abraham Path Run, -
13:53 - 13:55uniting the different communities.
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13:55 - 13:58The media love it; they really adore it.
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13:58 - 14:01They lavish attention on it
because it's visual -
14:01 - 14:03and it spreads the idea,
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14:03 - 14:07this idea of Abrahamic hospitality,
of kindness towards strangers. -
14:07 - 14:11And just a couple weeks ago,
there was an NPR story on it. -
14:12 - 14:13Last month,
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14:13 - 14:18there was a piece
in the Manchester Guardian about it, -
14:19 - 14:21two whole pages.
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14:22 - 14:25And they quoted a villager
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14:25 - 14:28who said, "This walk connects
us to the world." -
14:28 - 14:31He said, "It was like a light
that went on in our lives -- -
14:31 - 14:33it brought us hope."
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14:33 - 14:35And so that's what it's about.
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14:35 - 14:37But it's not just about psychology;
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14:37 - 14:39it's about economics.
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14:39 - 14:42Because as people walk, they spend money.
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14:42 - 14:45And this woman right here, Um Ahmad,
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14:45 - 14:48is a woman who lives on the path
in Northern Jordan. -
14:48 - 14:50She's desperately poor.
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14:50 - 14:53She's partially blind,
her husband can't work, -
14:53 - 14:55she's got seven kids.
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14:56 - 14:58But what she can do is cook.
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14:58 - 15:01And so she's begun to cook
for some groups of walkers -
15:01 - 15:04who come through the village
and have a meal in her home. -
15:04 - 15:08They sit on the floor --
she doesn't even have a tablecloth. -
15:08 - 15:10She makes the most delicious food,
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15:10 - 15:13that's fresh from the herbs
in the surrounding countryside. -
15:13 - 15:15And so more and more walkers have come,
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15:15 - 15:19and lately she's begun to earn an income
to support her family. -
15:19 - 15:22And so she told our team there, she said,
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15:22 - 15:24"You have made me visible
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15:25 - 15:29in a village where people
were once ashamed to look at me." -
15:29 - 15:32That's the potential of the Abraham Path.
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15:32 - 15:34There are literally hundreds
of those kinds of communities -
15:34 - 15:37across the Middle East, across the path.
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15:38 - 15:41The potential is basically
to change the game. -
15:41 - 15:45And to change the game, you have to change
the frame, the way we see things -- -
15:45 - 15:49to change the frame
from hostility to hospitality, -
15:50 - 15:53from terrorism to tourism.
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15:53 - 15:55And in that sense, the Abraham Path
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15:55 - 15:57is a game-changer.
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15:57 - 15:59Let me just show you one thing.
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15:59 - 16:01I have a little acorn here
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16:01 - 16:05that I picked up while I was walking
on the path earlier this year. -
16:05 - 16:08Now, the acorn is associated
with the oak tree, of course -- -
16:08 - 16:11grows into an oak tree,
which is associated with Abraham. -
16:11 - 16:13The path right now is like an acorn;
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16:13 - 16:15it's still in its early phase.
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16:15 - 16:17What would the oak tree look like?
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16:17 - 16:19When I think back to my childhood,
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16:19 - 16:22a good part of which I spent,
after being born here in Chicago, -
16:22 - 16:23I spent in Europe.
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16:23 - 16:29If you had been in the ruins of, say,
London in 1945, or Berlin, -
16:29 - 16:31and you had said,
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16:31 - 16:33"Sixty years from now,
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16:33 - 16:36this is going to be the most peaceful,
prosperous part of the planet," -
16:36 - 16:39people would have thought
you were certifiably insane. -
16:39 - 16:43But they did it, thanks
to a common identity, Europe, -
16:43 - 16:45and a common economy.
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16:45 - 16:49So my question is,
if it can be done in Europe, -
16:49 - 16:50why not in the Middle East?
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16:50 - 16:55Why not, thanks to a common identity,
which is the story of Abraham, -
16:55 - 17:00and thanks to a common economy that
would be based, in good part, on tourism? -
17:01 - 17:03So let me conclude, then,
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17:03 - 17:06by saying that in the last 35 years,
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17:06 - 17:09as I've worked
in some of the most dangerous, -
17:09 - 17:12difficult and intractable conflicts
around the planet, -
17:12 - 17:17I have yet to see one conflict
that I felt could not be transformed. -
17:18 - 17:20It's not easy, of course.
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17:20 - 17:22But it's possible.
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17:22 - 17:24It was done in South Africa.
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17:24 - 17:26It was done in Northern Ireland.
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17:26 - 17:27It could be done anywhere.
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17:27 - 17:30It simply depends on us.
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17:30 - 17:33It depends on us taking the third side.
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17:33 - 17:37So let me invite you to consider
taking the third side, -
17:37 - 17:39even as a very small step.
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17:39 - 17:41We're about to take a break in a moment.
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17:41 - 17:43Just go up to someone
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17:43 - 17:46who's from a different culture,
a different country, -
17:46 - 17:48a different ethnicity --
some difference -- -
17:48 - 17:50and engage them in a conversation.
-
17:50 - 17:51Listen to them.
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17:51 - 17:53That's a third-side act.
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17:53 - 17:55That's walking Abraham's Path.
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17:55 - 17:56After a TED Talk,
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17:56 - 17:58why not a TED Walk?
-
17:58 - 17:59(Laughter)
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17:59 - 18:03So let me just leave you
with three things. -
18:03 - 18:08One is, the secret to peace
is the third side. -
18:09 - 18:11The third side is us.
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18:11 - 18:14Each of us, with a single step,
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18:15 - 18:17can take the world, can bring the world
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18:17 - 18:20a step closer to peace.
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18:21 - 18:23There's an old African proverb that goes:
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18:23 - 18:25"When spiderwebs unite,
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18:25 - 18:28they can halt even the lion."
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18:28 - 18:32If we're able to unite
our third-side webs of peace, -
18:32 - 18:35we can even halt the lion of war.
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18:35 - 18:37Thank you very much.
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18:37 - 18:39(Applause)
- Title:
- The walk from "no" to "yes" | WIlliam Ury | TEDxMidwest
- Description:
-
William Ury, author of "Getting to Yes," offers an elegant, simple (but not easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations -- from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East.
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. - Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDxTalks
- Duration:
- 18:46
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TED Translators admin edited English subtitles for The walk from "no" to "yes" | WIlliam Ury | TEDxMidwest | ||
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