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.
- Courageous Dialogues -- A Canadian applied research project to identify best strategies, tools, and practices for overcoming polarization at home, work, in social circles and the public square.
- Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess talk with Duncan Autrey about our Faltering Democracy and How to Fix It -- We talked about the intractability of the hyper-polarization in the U.S. political system (and elswewhere) and what conflict theory tells us about its causes and what can and should be done to reduce it.
- Now What? An Invitation to Participate in a Virtual Seminar on U.S. Democracy on Election Day -- Join HSDI to assess where we are now, and what we all can do to get to where we want to be in the future.
- “They Killed Us”: The LRA Massacre in Adjumani District Uganda -- This exercise documented memories and past human rights violations in an effort to provide transitional justice.
- Understanding Refugee – Host Relations in Post -Conflict Societies in Uganda: Adjumani District --
- The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Blog -- A blog seeking to bridge the theory-practice gap around intractable conflicts and their transformation.
- The Solutions Journalism Network -- The Solutions Journalism Network shares 1000s of stories about solutions to problems that actually work!
- AFP's Resource Page on Peacebuilding in the U.S. -- Books, articles, videos, podcasts showing how peace can be built in the U.S. as well as abroad.
- Being Validated -- Being validated is a basic need--that is getting met less and less. Face-to-face connection can fix that.
- Randy Butler's Peacemaker Podcast -- While our world seems to be falling apart, peacebuilders worldwide are working to put the pieces back together.
- World Policy Journal Issue on Megalomania -- Megalomania isn’t just a problem of a few bad leaders—it is far more ubiquitous and harmful.
- Ian Hughes on "Disordered Minds" and the Threat to Democracy -- Only strong democracy, says Hughes, can stop dangerous personalities from wrecking havoc on world order and peace.
- The Sustainable Peace Project of AC4: The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity at Columbia University -- Introducing the many resources on complexity, conflict, and peace from the Sustainable Peace Project of AC4, Columbia University
- Karuna in the World -- The Karuna Center invites people to subscribe to their newsletter "Karuna in the World"
- Alliance for Peacebuilding Annual Conference (PeaceCon) Preliminary Agenda -- The Alliance for Peacebuilding has released their preliminary agenda for PeaceCon2018: Oct. 24-26, 2018
- New Report: Snapshot of Adaptive Management in Peacebuilding Programs -- This report introduces a new approach to peacebuilding evaluation which is more and flexible and adaptive (and hence appropriate for fast-changing, complex environments) than are traditional non-adaptive, post-hoc evaluation methodologies.
- New Book: Embodied Conflict: the Neural Basis of Conflict and Communication -- Tim Hicks has published an important new book on neuro-science that illustrates what Guy Burgess refers to as "pscyhological complexity" and explains how that impacts communication and conflict.
- The Peace and Security Funding Index -- The The Peace and Security Funding Index, published by the Peace and Security Funders Group maps peace and security grants. It shows what topics and types of projects are being funded by whom and where.
- The Economics of Peacebuilding: Assessing the Cost and Effectiveness of Programming -- An argument that the peacebuilding field needs to do a much better job understanding the cost-effectiveness of our work.
- Louis Kriesberg on Gene Sharp -- Louis Kriesberg's obituary for Gene Sharp, the pre-eminant scholar on nonviolent direct action.
