Alternative Dispute Resolution
Dec. 5, 2023
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is a conflict avoidance tactic
Mark B. Baer
Mark works as a mediator and conflict resolution consultant and teaches a course on implicit bias.
My last article for this column titled “Agree-to-disagree approach hinders conflict resolution” was published on Nov. 1, 2023. This sequel to that article demonstrates how “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies and laws, which we are seeing more of in recent years with “Don’t Say Gay” laws and the like, are subsets of the “agree-to-disagree” approach. In doing so, I am using my own very real and painful lived experiences with such policies.
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