Here at Friendly Law we believe in the need for education and advanced professional work beyond the traditional legal practice, focused on how to influence the expectations of the ordinary citizen concerning the basic values of international order and world civilization, such as, but not limited to, the fundamental ideas of universal security and peace, the value of the principles of equality at every level, the critical salience of the rule of law, and the imperatives of human developments and social economic progress. Which is why we promote networking and interdisciplinary research as tools for social change. Which is why we belief in the value of making connections with other people, professionals, academics, and researchers, whether professionally or socially, as an invaluable opportunity to engage with ‘real world’ research studies and create cross-disciplinary knowledge. In short, as an integral part of every professional’s learning journey.
We then see networking as a process that fosters the exchange of information and ideas among individuals or groups that share a common interest. It generally helps to build relationships, but in the professional context, the objective is to form relationships that will improve organizational success or enrich the professional individual. Which is why it can be deemed as the single most powerful marketing tactic to accelerate and sustain success for any individual or organization!
In the social sense, we believe that a more inclusive and integrated science may help us to understand the phases of social conflict, which in its early phases may appear to be benign. The central point in understanding emerging conflict in its early phases is that the tools of conflict involving intervention may be more effective at that phase of the conflict. When the conflict evolves into the dynamic of high intensity interaction, intervention is more difficult, more risky, or expensive, and the likelihood of a negative outcome is probable.
The “Space Race” that began in the 1950s and ended in the 1970s showed the world the importance of effective education processes for collective rights, such as national security and national leadership, and for individual rights, such as freedom of speech and the pursuit of happiness.
In our time, where globalization has produced massive flow of goods, services, people, technologies – and other important needs, claims, and values, making sovereignty borders porous and building an ideology of Global Human Community – effective research based education processes, as well as effective networking, have become particularly important.
Who am I?
What have I done up until this point?
What do I want to do in the future?
What do I need or want from those attending an event?
Do I want to pivot my career to a new or additional audience?
All people conduct research every day in their daily tasks to reach a decision about a variety of events. In the professional sense, there are two major research sectors, academic and private. And althought they are different in terms of the approach and objectives (purposes), the two sectors have common research goals: to understand problems and to predict the future. Which is why it is so important to know how to conduct research.
The most appropriate method of knowing when it comes to research is the scientific method, which is public, objective, empirical, systematic, cumulative, and predictive. And the typical eight research steps are the following:
Academic research tends to be more theoretical in nature whereas private sector research is generally more applied. Nonetheless, because life is research, researchers can find research ideas from all type of sources, including professional (academic) journals, magazines and periodicals, research summaries, archive data, the Internet, and everyday situations.
Once researchers determine topic relevance, they should ask themselves eight basic questions about research feasibility, significance of the problem, validity, the approach, and ethics. Also, replication is important because the results of a single study provide information about only what may exist or may not exist. To establish scientific facts, and thus, advance knowledge, studies should be replicated a number of times.
If your networking meeting is successful, you can either develop an interdisciplinary research proposal or short piece and have it published at The Mentor’s Blog!
Or you can develop a workshop or talk and have our members join live or have it published at our Professional and Academic Workshops page!
You can also make a $5 minimum donation and submit your interdisciplinary research proposal using the contact form below for a chance to win a $100 prize!
And if you execute your proposal, submit your work for publication, conference, or professional development, and it gets accepted, you can submit your acceptance letter for a chance to win a grant of up to $500 to cover the cost and expenses of showcasing your work to the world!
If you are an Academic, Scholar, Student, or Professional that is interested in connecting with other great minds like you in order to develop a project, research, or to just have robust discussions about how your fields connect to each other and the law, this is your place! Send us all the details. We will put you in a database. And once you get matched, you and your connection(s) will be notified to set a time and date to meet in one of our virtual rooms. No personal information will be shared with any of the connections. Just the connections field, and the purpose, goal, and or objective for the meeting.
Here at Friendly Law we believe in the need for education and advanced professional work beyond the traditional legal practice, focused on how to influence the expectations of the ordinary citizen concerning the basic values of international order and world civilization, such as, but not limited to, the fundamental ideas of universal security and peace, the value of the principles of equality at every level, the critical salience of the rule of law, and the imperatives of human developments and social economic progress. Which is why we promote networking and interdisciplinary research as tools for social change.
If your networking meeting is successful, and you get to develop an interdisciplinary research proposal, you can not only have it published in The Mentor’s Blog, you can also submit your proposal using the contact form below with a minimum $5 donation for a chance to win a $100 prize.
Proposals must have a minimum of two authors, have some connection with law, rules, and or regulations, be in the latest APA format edition, be between 15 and 20 pages, and clearly include the first four of the typical eight research steps:
If you execute your interdisciplinary research proposal, and submit your work for publication, a conference, or professional development, and it gets accepted, you can submit your acceptance letter to info@friendlylaw.org for a chance to win a grant of up to $500 to cover the cost and expenses of showcasing your work to the world. Please copy and paste the letter. Do not send attachments to this address. And make sure you write PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT in the email subject area.
You can submit any professional, academic, and scholarly work in the form of a professional or academic workshop or talk for publication to Professional & Academic Workshops Page. At the bottom of the Professional & Academic Workshops Page, you will find a form, which is the best way to submit your work. Please type or paste your work in teh form as plain text, not HTML, and please do not use brackets. Information relevant to your expertise, or additional authors, should be included together with the sources used, and the length and format of the work.
You can submit any professional, academic, and scholarly work for publication to The Mentor’s Blog. At the bottom of The Mentor’s Blog page, you will find a form, which is the best way to submit your work. Please type or paste your work in teh form as plain text, not HTML, and please do not use brackets. Information relevant to your expertise, or additional authors, should be included together with the sources used, and the length and format of the work.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.