I've been thinking a lot lately about what our world will look like if the SHTF, or even if it more slowly alters into a much different world than as it currently exists (well, that's a certainty, but still important to think about). One of the other things I've been thinking about is the looting, rioting and other anti-social behaviors that happen in a crisis. While many preppers immediately go to weapons as a way to handle these issues, I was thinking a better tool in our "arsenal" might be more training in conflict resolution, mediation/negotiation and even resource management. I mean, starving people aren't necessarily evil people who deserve to be shot - they're people who are starving, whether that's because they didn't prep or like what happened in the Philippines and their preps are just gone, obliterated by a natural event that they could no more have prevented or avoided than the folks on the Jersey shore could have avoided Sandy. Maybe if we have additional skills in resolving conflict we can avoid unnecessary loss of life.
In addition, conflict resolution, mediation, etc. can be a hugely useful skill for building your community when things are in a bad way. If you want all your neighbors, who doubtless come from different places in life/viewpoints/etc., to get along, this might be useful to know so you don't rip apart from the inside during times of stress.
Here are a couple of the videos and presentations I have queued up to start learning about this.
http://www.slideshare.net/rustycawley/communicating-in-high-stress-situations
