Featured BI Posts
- Exploring the Role of Collective Memory for Reconciliation: A Comparative Case of Guatemala and Cambodia -- This paper explores how collective memories can be used post-trauma for healing and reconciliation instead of driving further divisions.
- Reconciliation Lost – An Examination of 19th Century Post-Conflict Practice in American Reconstruction -- What lessons can modern peacebuilders learn from the Reconstruction Era following the US Civil War?
- The Intersections of Civil Discourse and Privilege -- Civil discourse is not intended to change minds of others, but to help the participants to be curious and grow themselves.
- Reconciliation through Dialogue: Dialogue Circles and Reconciling Racism on the Eastern Shore of Maryland -- An examination of how dialogue can promote both horizontal and vertical social change.
- The US Government Has a Long Way to go with Reconciliation: Japanese Internment Camps -- 1988 Civil Liberties Act, with all its imperfections and incompleteness, is proof that the United States is capable initiating reconciliation
- Peacebuilding at the Intersection with Development and Humanitarian Aid -- These fields have different cultures, but learning to work together would have benefits to their clients.
- The Franco-German Relationship: From Animosity to Affinity -- Despite a fraught history, these two countries fundamentally transformed their relationship through both symbolic and pragmatic steps.
- Comparison of Dialogue Practices -- Photovoice has survivors take pictures and then describe them, a novel way to encourage dialogue among those who otherwise might be reluctant.
- Finding Peace with America’s Great “Other”: Reconciliation in the age of Mass Incarceration -- The prison system fails all that fall into it. Restorative alternatives—implemented before, during, or after prison can bring benefits to victims, families, and offenders alike.
- Reclaiming Space in Charlottesville, VA: A Black Feminist Endeavor – Case Study -- A case study of how the Black female mayor of Charlottesville, VA has sought to transform the racial conflict stemming from the August 2017 white supremacy march.
- Identity Issues -- Identity drives many intractable conflicts as people simplify complex situations into an "us-versus them" story.
- Coexistence -- Coexistence offers a promising alternative to today's all-out struggle for dominance among competing socio-cultural groups.
- Cross-Cultural Communication -- Culture influences everything we see, say, and do. When our cultures differ, misunderstanding is bound to result unless we are aware of--and respond to--these challenges in effective ways.
- Mass Media -- Everything we know about world events is filtered through the media. When those filters are inaccurate, so too is our knowledge.
- The Scale-Up Problem -- To be effective at the societal level, traditional "table-oriented" processes must be scaled up to societal size.
- Values-Based Conversations -- We assume our "friends" share our values while "others" don't. That often is not the case.
