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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The Response: The World Talks
Bringing together people from around the world for 1:1 virtual dialogues, The World Talks is a global dialogue experiment built by a coalition of independent media partners from 15 countries.
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The DNA of Organizational Transformation--Structure, Relationships & Shared Purpose
These three elements are intertwined together, much like the strands of DNA. By working together, they can transform organizational culture and improve members' well being.
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Amplifying Sameness and Damping Difference
Though a search for common ground is useful, it can be taken too far. Disagreement and difference are essential for learning, change, and growth. Ideas should be challenged before they are accepted.
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The Flip Side on the Durham Report
A presentation of views from the Left and the Right about the Durham Report on FBI and other law enforcement investigations of the Trump and Clinton Presidential campaigns.
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A Guide for Building a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration
Five elements are required for collaborative success: a common agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communications, and backbone infrastructure.
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
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Collaborating Across Differences to Reduce Authoritarianism: A Literature Review
A literature review exploring the question: What are the practices that support groups that come together to collaborate across differences to reduce authoritarianism?
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With no waitstaff, menus or regular hours, this café isn't your average coffee house
A restraurateur provides the opportunity for meaningful interactions with people whose paths may not otherwise cross while learning something new — and maybe gaining a new perspective or even a friend.
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In This Together
A campaign to help save the environment and repair our democracy by connecting and empowering America’s silenced majority of 98 million, in hope-based campaigns beginning with climate change.
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Dialogue Lab: America | Documentary Film (2022)
A video about Ideos Institute's experiment testing whether constructive dialogue is possible in today’s polarized culture, and if so, how dialogue might be a first step in healing our nation.
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Bridging Divides & Cultivating Solidarity to Counter Strategic Racism, with Ian Haney López
A podcast exploring how engaging across our racial and class divides and cultivating solidarity can help bring us together to care for and nurture our democracy.
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Five Calls-to Action from the 2022 Facing Race Conference
Calls included: 1) don't be afraid of backlash--it means we're winning. 2) reconnect, 3) expose white nationalism for the threat it is, 4) Stop internal implosions, and 5) Look and move forward.
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Bridging divides in the workplace
Many companies are witnessing how contentious social and political issues create workplace conflict and reduce productivity. A look at how businesses can help repair America’s social fabric — both in and out of the workplace.
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Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
Podcasts highlighting the experiences of international religiously-motivated peacebuilders, plus many more text profiles of religious peacebuilders with descriptions of their work.
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Moving Beyond Partisan Polarization: Some First Steps
From Essential Partners: 5 steps (with detailed questions for each) to have illuminating conversations with yourself, allies, and others to reduce polarization.
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US politics isn't broken. It's fixed
Katherine Gehl says the U.S. political system is working as designed. Yet we can make it better with voting innovations that give voers more choice and incentivize politicians to work towards progress.
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Can ChatGPT Boost Your Civic Engagement?
Here's a cautionary story about ChatGPT--it gets somethings right, but surprisingly, seems to make other things up! (No surprise, actually, there are plenty of fake facts on the web for it to choose from.)
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Divided Community Project
DCP provides dispute resolution and systems-design expertise to help local community and university leaders enhance community resiliency and prepare for and respond to events that polarize their communities.
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Can Spanish and English speakers thrive in the same city?
n Emporia, KS, a small group of residents is working to make the community more cohesive and welcoming to Spanish-speakers and immigrants by practicing Spanish together. But is that enough?
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Leveraging solutions journalism for revenue growth
If media organizations produce solutions journalism, will they generate more revenue? YES! (With caveats)
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A Partnership for Peace
Search For Common Ground and Preemptive Love Coalition are merging! This strategic merger will amplify the impact of both organizations as we pursue a shared vision of advancing global peace.
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New Study: A Promising Method to Build Trust in Information and Reduce Partisan Animosity
A new method significantly reduced feelings of hostility between political party members to a level that resembles the political climate of the 1980s, when Republicans and Democrats got along.
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Backfire Basics
A primer from the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict on how to create backlash against injustice, making it less likely for oppressors to "get away with it."
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The Networks Festival
The Fito Network's "Network Festival" seeks to bring together (online and in person) 1000s of people from other networks to deepen understanding of how we can leverage relationships to transform the world.
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“Woke” is a Perfectly Meaningful Word - Better Conflict Bulletin #43
An examination of what the term, "woke," means, how it is used, and how it is used as an excuse--by both progressives and conservatives--to avoid talking about real issues.