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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Aches, Pains, and Alternative Facts. Do the stories you tell yourself help you or hurt you?
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.
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Learning from Experience
From Network Weaver, a conversation between Rachel Donald and artist Maggie Robers on perspective, vision,AI, bias, resistance, extraction, imagination, and the role of art in a crisis.
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Understanding Pro-Democracy Conservatives
This report by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University explores the contours of a conservative pro-democracy movement in the current American political landscape
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The Horizon's Project New Race and Democracy Portolio
Julia Roig,and Jarvis William's,new focus on race and democracy and their goal of supporting partners to break down siloes to place racial equity and racial healing at the center of our pro-democracy organizing.
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American Autocracy Threat Tracker
A Comprehensive Catalog Based on Donald Trump and His Associates’ Plans, Promises, and Propositions
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Political Violence & US Democracy
The Violence and Democracy Impact Tracker (VDIT) — a resource from Protect Democracy and the SNF Agora Institute — calculates the impact of political violence on eight distinct pillars of democracy in the United States.
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The 22nd Century Initiative
The new website of a movement to "forge a people-powered democracy in this century and the next" with a growing "resource hub."
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Are we really as divided as we think we are?
According to Beyond Conflict's March 29, 2024 Newsletter, the answer is no.
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Rebuild Trust in Politics: Common Sense Paper # 48
Those who choose to run for office should evidence some knowledge and care for the principles of sound government. To build trust, they must exhibit both good intent and competence.
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The power of unconscious thought
From George Lakoff and a progressive perspective, critically important insights into subconscious aspects of political communication.
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Enduring Hope: Democratic Resilience in Asia
The March 2024 (Vol 19. No. 1) Issue of Global Asia from the East Asia Foundation
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Being Valued, Seen, and Heard in a Polarized Society
Eileen Borris distinguishes between people's "personal stories" and "larger stories" -- who we are as part of a global human family, connected by transcendent values and spiritual natures.
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Three Organizations Teaching Students to Navigate Political Difference – BCB #94
Profiles of 3 organizations (Essential Partners, Braver Angels, and the American Exchange Project) with noteworthy approaches to teaching students (and everyone else, really) do better deal with political conflict:
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How to survive another Trump-Biden election
From Amanda Ripley, thoughts about how to navigate the coming year of political turmoil.
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Checklist for Listeners
From Ohio State's Divided Community Project, a checklist for campus leadership to help them listen to students, faculty, and staff effectively after a divisive event.
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What's the best strategy for reducing toxic divides? Cultural change or systemic change?
Zach Elwood talks with David Foster of Know the System.org about ways we can change the media environment to improve political discourse and decrease toxic polarization.
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Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association
This division encourages psychological and multidisciplinary research, education and training on peace, nonviolent conflict resolution, reconciliation, and the causes, consequences and prevention of violence and destructive conflict.
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Horizons' Race and Democracy Resources
An essay on why racial justice and democracy must be pursued hand-in-hand and resources discussing how to do that.
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America's Divided Mind: Video Intervention
This is a 4-minute video which was named one of the most effective interventions to reduce support for political violence, anti-democratic attitudes, and animosity across partisan lines.
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Leading a Divided Campus: Ideas and Illustrations
A timely reminder of the limited support that Iran's aggressive military campaigns enjoy with the Iranian people themselves.
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Conflict Engagement and Peacemaking
A Peace Talks Radio podcast exploring "conflict engagement" and explaining how this differs from more familiar "conflict resolution."
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The Legitimacy of the Supreme Court
An examination from the Narrative Project, examining both the right and the left's view of the current Supreme Court.
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Joint Campus-Law Enforcement Preparation for Campus Demonstrations and Hate Incidents amid Violence in the Middle East
An extensively annotated checklist based on input from current and former campus security. city police chiefs and mediators who have worked large-scale crowd events and hate incidents.
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Do Americans have civic role models?
New research, by More in Common and others, indicates that we have a reason to be concerned about the status of Americans’ civic disposition.
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Uncommon and nonpartisan: Antidemocratic attitudes in the American public
While American political elites increasingly exhibit an antidemocratic posture, both Democratic and Republican constituencies overwhelmingly and consistently oppose norm violations and partisan violence.