Colleague Activities
We are always looking for people doing interesting, intractable conflict-related projects to feature on our Colleague Activities Blog. See the Blog Homepage for information on how to submit your work.
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What’s your ‘red line’? | Jonathan Haidt with Mónica Guzmán
Does engaging bad ideas across the divide make you a bad person? Renowned psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt talks with Monica Guzman in this Braver Angels video.
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Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy
This initiative brings together America’s leading constitutional scholars and thought leaders of diverse perspectives to identify reforms that could preserve the institutional guardrails on which democracy depends.
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Confronting Controversial Issues in the Classroom
Discussions of controversial issues are frequently prescribed by theorists, professors, and civic organizations, but most school systems are reluctant. Here's how to do it well.
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National Issues Forum's Issue Guides
On policing, elections, COVID vaccines, immigration, and lots of other controversial issues.
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Constructive Dialogue Institute
CDI seeks to repair our civic culture by spreading the practices of curiosity, critical thinking, and constructive dialogue across our nation’s education systems and workplaces.
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Compassionate Humanity Community
An emerging network of people working to build movements dedicated to serving humanity, the environment, and life. Reducing conflict and fostering collaboration are tools advocated to achieve these goals.
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More in Common
More in Common works on both short and longer term initiatives to understand and address the underlying drivers of fracturing and polarization, and build more united, resilient and inclusive societies.
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The “End” Of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require A Deeper Value
Working to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive with a focus on scale, redesign of the civic infrastructure, and measurement.
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American Bar Association's Corerstones of Democracy Conversations Guide
The cornerstones are civics, civility, and collaboration, and this conversation guide helps lawyers (and others) as they work to strengthen all three.
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Building Bridges Without a Foundation for Peace Won’t Work
An article comparing different bridge-building strategies and the goals of negative peace versus positive peace. Just getting people to "talk nicely" isn't nearly enough to solve our problems.
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America's Divided Mind
New insights from Beyond Conflict about how polarization is fueled by Americans’ misperceptions about each other, and how we can start to reverse it.
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All Sides
AllSides is a media solutions company that strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.
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The Flip Side
Sharing thoughtful news stories from the left, right, and middle on a variety of issues--emailed once per day.
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We are Not Divided: Reasons to Be Cheerful Project
A good news media outlook posting stories about people using collaboration and other conflict resolution strategies to come together to solve problems.
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Urban Rural Action
UR Action brings together Americans across divides to tackle our nation's most urgent challenges. They focus on building relationships by solving problems together in all 50 states.
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Applying Regenerative Practice to Systems Beyond Place -- Some Thoughts
Describing regenerative practitioners who support change-makers by adapting principles of living systems to revive and evolve the places and the systems they are working with
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Congress is polarized. Fear of being ‘primaried’ is one reason.
Unite America's Richard Barton writes about his research on incumbents, primary challengers, and how congressional gridlock is often the outcome.
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Complicating the Narratives. What if journalists covered controverial issues differently.
An article by Amanda Ripley looking at how journalists can write better stories to help people become less polarized and suspicious.
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6 Reasons Why Liberatory Leaders Need to Take Play Seriously.
Play is valuable because it helps fuel innovation, promotes wellness, creates new models of strategic thinking, expands leadership opportunities, builds community, and invites wholeness.
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Digital Peacebuilders Guide
An online guidebook for peacebuilders interested in using digital tools to advance their work.
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The Dignity Index
An eight-point scale that scores speech on its power to unite or divide. Start your own journey by taking the Dignity Pledge.
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The public has a role in defending and sustaining democracy
Places to start: strengthening the electoral system, encouraging the value of public service, and focusing less on identity that divides us and more on commonalities that unite.
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Institute for Negotiation Innovation
INI is a new nonprofit which bridges negotiation research and practice, provides negotiation thought leadership, and mobilizes capacity for highler levels of negotiation competence and excellence.
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CBT and Peacebuilding
A Chip Hauss blog post looking at how cognitive behavioral therapy can be brought "to scale" and used for conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
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Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Back with Whole-of-Society tactics
This webinar reflected on the implications of this new type of warfare for liberal democracies. It highlights the need to build resilience and to increase collaboration between the public and private sectors.