Conflict News and Opinion Blog
From around the web, more insight into the nature of our conflict problems, limits of business-as-usual thinking, and things people are doing to try to make things better.
Beyond Intractability's efforts to promote more constructive approaches to conflict occur within the larger context of efforts to promote wise and equitable solutions to a broad range of social problems. This blog highlights readable news and opinion articles, "infographics" and reports that help us understand the costs--and hence, urgency -- of the conflict problem, the dynamics that make it so difficult, alternative responses, and innovative success stories about people who have successfully confronted various aspects of the problem in different settings.
Frontiers Seminar posts offer articles and video lectures that offer a more in-depth look at many of the ideas being discussed in the
Hyper-Polarization Discussion
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- Thought on the ways in which proponents of globalization have failed to acknowledge (and take steps to remedy) the adverse impacts associated with their policies. -- They Still Won't Say That They're Sorry: deindustrialization's victims and the wonks who won't acknowledge them
- For a time when our politics is distorted by inexpensive and superficial virtue-signaling, an argument that, to be seen as virtuous, people ought to do something significant that really makes a difference. -- We Need More Costly Signaling
- Food for thought for those who on the left to do not understand why those on the right are so upset about efforts to combat misinformation. -- The Censorship Industrial Complex Is US Government Counterpopulist Blowback
- Hopeful news that there is little grassroots support for the ruinous wars launched by Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. -- Why the Arab Street Is Celebrating Israel's Killing of Hezbollah Chief Nasrallah | Opinion
- Evidence that Hamas realized and planned for the devastating war that it's October 7 attack was designed to provoke. -- Hamas built an underground war machine to ensure its own survival
As BI tries to understand the broader context surrounding today's most divisive and intractable conflicts, we have started to compile a list of Newsletters that offer important perspectives that supplement those provided by mainstream news sources.
The full text of the Beyond Intractability system, external articles cited by the Beyond Intractability In Context, and other useful conflict-related articles can be searched using our Google Custom Search Engine.
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