Recent Beyond Intractability Posts
Including Hyper-Polarization Posts
Posts by BI Section
Lists of recent posts are also available separately for each BI Section:
Hyper-Polarization Discussion Posts | Earlier Constructive Conflict Initiative Blog
Things You Can Do To Help | Conflict Frontiers | Conflict Fundamentals
Beyond Intractability in Context | Colleague Activities
- Learning for Self-Government -- Amid widespread calls for revitalizing civic education, an in-depth, critical review of competing curricula. #mbi_context -- Mar 03
- Defeat Trump, Now More Than Ever -- Reflections on the critical need to prevent a second Putinesque Trump Presidency, the mistakes that Democrats are making that are moving the country in that direction. #mbi_context -- Mar 02
- unRival Network: A Creative Peacebuilding Community -- Built to overcome the loneliness and fatigue that inhibits innovation in nonviolent peacebuilding. It gives partners a collaborative place to refresh and grow. #mbi_colleague -- Mar 02
- Between The World And Men -- Amid the all too common demonization of the Canadian Truckers, a must read article that tells the other side of the story. #mbi_context -- Mar 02
- New critical race theory laws have teachers scared, confused and self-censoring -- How would you like to be a public school teacher caught in the crossfire between demands coming from the extremes of the left and the right. #mbi_context -- Mar 02
- Center for Climate and Security -- Security and military experts study threats to security from climate change and undertake numerous programs designed to reduce such threats. #mbi_colleague -- Mar 01
- Clean air doesn't need explicit racial targeting -- An example of the advantages of not framing all social problems in racial terms. #mbi_context -- Mar 01
- What If Russia Loses? -- Amid rapidly escalating efforts to oppose Russia's Ukrainian invasion, an article that asks what may be the war's most consequential question. #mbi_context -- Mar 01
- Status Anxiety Is Blowing Wind Into Trump’s Sails -- Status anxiety is a new "psychological problem" that discounts the complaints of populists who believe that they are no longer viewed as valued members of society. #mbi_context -- Mar 01
- Strategic Empathy: The Afghanistan Intervention Shows Why the U.S. Must Empathize with its Adversaries -- Empathy isn't just for interpersonal conflicts. It is critical to the management of international relations and, especially, efforts to prevent war. #mbi_context -- Mar 01
- Causing Crisis Works -- An exploration of the all too common practice of creating conflict and confrontation as a strategy for diverting attention from other issues. #mbi_context -- Feb 28
- What Conservatives Get Right About Politics -- An example of something that's not done nearly often enough -- thinking about the ideas that political opponents have that could help strengthen society. #mbi_context -- Feb 28
- Toda Institute's Social Media, Technology, and Peacebuilding Program -- Increasing public understanding of the role of social media in both promoting hate and division, and in fostering greater understanding and democracy. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 28
- Vladimir Putin’s Hall of Mirrors -- The Russian president sees the world through the lens of maskirovka and provokatsiia. -- A cultural history of the many ways in which a long tradition of sophisticated political provocations and propaganda has shaped (and is shaping) Russia. #mbi_context -- Feb 28
- The "misinformation problem" seems like misinformation -- A look at how efforts to give us all a more accurate view of the world through the supression of misinformation could easily make things worse. #mbi_context -- Feb 27
- PeaceTech Lab -- Investigating and implementing novel ways to use technology to pursue peace, and preventing its misuse to sow conflict. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 27
- “A Pleasure to Burn”: We Are Closer to Bradbury’s Dystopia Than Orwell’s or Huxley’s -- A persuasive argument that Ray Bradberry's Fahrenheit 451 does a better job of describing our contemporary dystopian moment than 1984 or Brave New World. #mbi_context -- Feb 27
- A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada -- A story about the steps that Canada is taking to quash the tracker protests--they seem to be "canceling" anybody who in any way supports the protesters. #mbi_context -- Feb 27
- The West Is Sleepwalking Into War in Ukraine -- As the Ukrainian war now unfolds, a look at the realities of military power and the things that the West has done that are contributing to the tragedy. #mbi_context -- Feb 24
- Multilateralism – Can we still build on it? -- A podcast with The Stimson Center’s Global Governance, Justice & Security Director, Richard Ponzio examining post-COVID-19 diplomacy. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 24
- Ukraine is the world’s first major “troll power” war -- In addition to overt aggression, the Ukrainian War is showing us the military implications of high-tech efforts to inflame and exploit the West's internal political divides. #mbi_context -- Feb 24
- More Places Should Do What Alaska Did to Its Elections -- A report on Alaska's nonpartisan, rank-choice primary system -- one of the most promising democratic reforms on the horizon. #mbi_context -- Feb 24
- 1619 vs. 1776 -- A really perceptive exploration of the complex process of remembering and forgetting that is critical to the crafting of a viable national identity. #mbi_context -- Feb 17
- Mercy Corps Program on Peace and Conflict -- Working holistically across societal, community, and individual levels to reduce and prevent violent conflict and advance sustainable peace. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 17
- The War on Free Speech -- A look at the global trend toward suppressing the expression of disagreeable ideas (rather than doing the hard work of building agreement). #mbi_context -- Feb 17
