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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Ethelo
Ethelo is a "digital democracy platform" that helps organizations come to consensus solutions after involving many stakeholders in an online deliberative process.
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America Talks: National Week of Conversation
An annual online event matching 1000s of people across the political divide to talk, listen, learn and act together. Last held April 24-30, 2022.
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Failing Productively in Systems Change: Key Mindsets and Practices
How do we embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems?
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Consensus Building Institute Resources
Another "if it being done it must be possible" story -- an extensive collection of resources explaining how people are successfully collaborating despite deep differences.
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How Are U.S. Public School Teachers Approaching Civic and Citizenship Education?
For those wanting to help strengthen democracy by strengthening civic education, a report on where things now stand.
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Organizing for collective impact: Transforming American democracy together
A second essay on ways in which a mass movement for strengthening democracy might be established.
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Keystone Habits for a Collaborative Learning Culture
“Keystone habits” have the power to start a chain reaction, changing other habits as they move through an organization or system. They can jump start collaboration.
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Applying Regenerative Practice to Systems Beyond Place -- Some Thoughts
Applying the prinicples of living (biological) systems to social systems to help address threats and redesign those systems to thrive.
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Star Voting
An alternative to traditional winner-take-all and ranked choice voting to give voting more meaning and to discourage extremism.
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The Consilience Project
A project exploring how our social systems and institutions need to be redesigned if free, open, non-authoritarian societies are to survive.
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Humanity's Phase Shift', Daniel Schmachtenberger
A video discussing why modern day governance isn't working, and what every individual must do within themselves to enable us as a community and society, to work out our problems together.
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Democracy and the Epistemic Commons
The ultimate responsibility for good governance in a democracy falls to the voting citizenry, which can only exercise this duty well when it has accurate information about the world.
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Rule Omega
Daniel Schmactenberger and Jordan Greenhall talk about listening for the "meaningful signal" hidden within the "noise" of any statement.
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Organizing for collective impact: The making of a mass pro-democracy movement
Provocative thoughts on a critically important (and often neglected) question, how can the many groups working to support and strengthen democracy integrate their efforts into an effective social movement?
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If an Alternative Candidate Is Needed in 2024, These Folks Will Be Ready
A strategy for offering voters the choice of moderate, compromise-oriented governance in the event that both US political parties nominate extremist candidates.
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The Counterweight Conference on Liberal Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion
An announcement of an upcoming online conference that tries to do more than criticize existing diversity equity and inclusion programs, it tries to offer a less divisive and more unifying alternative.
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Failing Productivity and Systems Change: Key Mindsets and Practices
As we struggle with today's many problems, we are going to have to take on deeper systemic challenges. This will require us to learn how to embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems.
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Citizen Connect Participation Guide to the 2022 Midterm Elections
Amid the flood of deceptive efforts to influence our votes in the upcoming US election, a project focused on helping people fulfill their civic obligations through informed voting.
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What is the Backfire Effect?
From Omni-Win, an exploration of the "backfire effect," a cognitive bias that leads us to misinterpret information that challenges our beliefs as, instead, reinforcing those beliefs.
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ICTs for Monitoring and Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes
This paper explores the incorporation of information and communications technologies (ICTs) into the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems of peacebuilding programmes.
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Practical Approaches to Theories of Change in Conflict, Security, and Justice Programmes
A DFID document presenting practical skills for developing high quality theories of change, and understading the role they play in conflict, security and justice program design and assessment.
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To Build a Bridge: The Bridge Alliance Podcasts
A podcast series focused on illuminating the complex societal issues we face and highlighting the solution-oriented work of the many organizations and community leaders in the Bridge Allinace Network.
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Which Gun Laws Work? Article in RAND Policy Currents
A six-year study evaluating scientific evidence about the effects of various gun laws on homicides, suicides, and mass shootings.
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A Guide for Professional Journalism in Conflict Zones
Exploring the challenges of reporting news from conflict zones, this guide provides a "time out" for journalists to reflect on their role as investigators and deiverers of information to society.
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Civics Alliance
A national coalition of organizations and citizens dedicated to preserving and improving America’s civics education.