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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Artificial Intelligence and Negotiation: The New Frontier
A webinar with AI and ADR expert Colin Rule, talking about the myriad ways computers are impacting negotiation and our lives more broadly. #mbi_colleague
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Good People Must Be Dangerous People
A scary look at how one individual explains his shift away from nonviolent politics and toward violence, threats, and even atrocities. #mbi_context
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What are we fighting for?
A short rap video, essentially making the primary point of our CCI--our conflicts are destroying us--we need to change direction now. #mbi_colleague
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Preventing and Reducing Conflict and Instability in the United States: Shaping What Comes Next
Spring Speaker Series running April-June at the Alliance for Peacebuilding. Past webinars are posted for later viewing. #mbi_colleague
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Global Negotiation Conference
GNC-2021 is open to students from all disciplines with an interest in negotiation theory and practice. The online conference includes 4 days of presentations and workshops and a day-long multiparty simulation on a current international issue. #mbi_colleague
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Some Credible Evidence: Perceptions about the Evidence Base in the Peacebuilding Field
An investigation about what evidence exists and what more is needed to support "evidence-based" peacebuilding practice. #mbi_colleague
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6 Tips For Making Online Collaboration More Productive and Engaging
There’s more to online collaboration than using the right technology and best practices. Meeting planners must also harness "the human dimension." #mbi_colleague
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6 Tips For Making Online Collaboration More Productive and Engaging
There’s more to online collaboration than using the right technology and best practices. Meeting planners must also harness "the human dimension." #mbi_colleague
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Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
A movement to establish a US TRC to "properly acknowledge, memorialize, and be a catalyst for progress" in eliminating racial inequity in the U.S. #mbi_colleague
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Better evidence is the key to better peacebuilding
BEP conducts research to generate more precise and usable evidence on how to reduce violent conflict. #mbi_colleague
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Revisiting the Arab Uprisings at 10: Beyond Success and Failure
An examination of the ways in which the Arab Spring uprisings changed their societies by rengotiating state-society relationships. #mbi_colleague
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Recovering Truth -- Religion, Journalism and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era
A research project on ways of thinking and communicating about the pursuit, meaning, discovery, and recovery of truth in democratic life. #mbi_colleague
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Communicating About Peace And Peacebuilding: Challenges, Opportunities, And Emerging Recommendations
A report on a social science research project to uncover effective narrative frames for peacebuilding in U.S. foreign policy. #mbi_colleague
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Ask the Experts
Reflections on the BLM movement from heads of six leading peacebuilding organizations #mbi_colleague
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How to do online training effectively in the age of COVID-19
A short, but useful article from International Alert on how to do effective online Peacebuilding training. #mbi_colleague
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Rethinking: The Justice Algorithm
An eye-opening look into the "justice gap" and the ways in which alternative and online dispute resolution can and cannot help close that gap. #mbi_colleague
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Who killed Truth
A video of a webinar with historian Jill Lapore entitled Who Killed Truth, held by the Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict #mbi_colleague
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Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe
A video of a webinar by Jane Harman, Wilson Center Director, talking about her new book which explains why we have become less safe and what to do about that. #mbi_colleague
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Network Weaver Newsletter
An article on networking for social change and an annotated bibliography on developing regenerative networks, among other useful materials. #mbi_colleague
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Revisiting the Arab Uprisings at 10: Beyond Success and Failure
A video of a webinar presenting a more nuanced look at the Arab Srping 10 years later. #mbi_colleague
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The COVID-19 Pandemic, Digital Threats and Urban Violence Prevention
A report by Lisa Schirch on how cities are using social media to prevent urban violence during the pandemic. #mbi_colleague
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Artificial Intelligence and Negotiation: The New Frontier
Upcoming Webinar with Colin Rule, online ADR expert discussing the latest developments in AI and how they are relevant to negotiation and dispute resolution. #mbi_colleague
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Peacebuilding and the Norms of Technological Change
Peacebuilders need to help those closest to the development of new communication technologies understand the conflict implications of their work. #mbi_colleague
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Biden Must Mobilize Americans to Fight "Toxic Polarization"
An article in Newsweek, featuring our friend and colleague Peter Coleman. #mbi_colleague
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Organizations Transforming Polarization & Division
A categorized list, compiled by Columbia University scholars, of governmental and nongovernmental organizations in media, arts, technology, and education working in the U.S. to bridge our many divides. #mbi_colleague