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Hyper-Polarization Blog
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Selected Recent Posts
- Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective -- Constructive confrontation applies conflict resolution theory and practice to advocacy efforts in an effort to limit pushback and maximize attainment of ones interests and needs.
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 29 -- In addition to more links to interesting projects that our democracy, conflict, and peace colleagues are doing, recommended articles on political moderates, the lifetime insights of prominent social activists, ways of limiting done violence, and other topics.
- Could MPP Make Hyper-Polarization Worse? -- Bad-faith actors can and do use a massively parallel strategy to drive us apart. But that doesn't mean that the strategy is bad -- it means that it is effective. Good-faith actors need to learn how to use these techniques to bring us together.
- Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat -- A look at what we know about reducing the mutual hostility (associated with escalation and hyper-polarization dynamics) that contributes so much to mass shootings, gun deaths, and interpersonal and political violence.