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
- Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Myths and Misrepresentations -- A factsheet produced by the Coalition for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples debunking "fake facts" circulating about the Declaration. #mbi_colleague -- Dec 03
- Your Individually Rational Choice Is Collectively Disastrous -- The pandemic is a spectacular example of a tragedy of the commons in which the pursuit of individual self interest leads to catastrophe. #mbi_context -- Dec 03
- What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? -- Yet another instance in which persuasion works better than coercion. #mbi_context -- Dec 02
- The Decentralized, "Markets Plus" Metaphor -- Harnessing the power of markets: a strategy for scaling up efforts to deal with complex, intractable conflict. #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 02
- Bootprint -- Militarism and the Environment -- A new journal from the Transnational Foundation examining the intersections between violence and environmental crises. #mbi_colleague -- Dec 02
- Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, documents show -- If we are going to stop the hate spiral from tearing our society even further apart, we have to challenge hate wherever it occurs. #mbi_context -- Dec 02
- Republicans Discover the Dangers of Selling Bunk to Their Constituents -- A stunning history explaining how political hatemongering led to the US Civil War. Let's not let it happen again! #mbi_context -- Dec 01
- The Google Traffic Metaphor -- Google traffic and other traffic control activities can teach us a lot about dealing with conflict. #mbi_fundamentals -- Dec 01
- Ethics Central Newsletter from Brandeis -- The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life highlights their recent work on the U.S. election and beyond. #mbi_colleague -- Dec 01
- Covid-19 policies have left out the vulnerable — except in Vermont -- Welcome and vitally important evidence that approaching crises (like the pandemic) with mutual caring and compassion protects everyone. #mbi_context -- Dec 01
- U.S. Reconciliation in 2020 and Beyond -- Reconciliation is not the imposition of one side's view on the other, but rather a meeting of minds and a way forward. #mbi_cci -- Nov 22
- Americans hate each other. But we aren’t headed for civil war. -- A thoughtful and well-documented analysis that argues that the worst-case risk of civil war in the United States is much less than it might appear. #mbi_context -- Nov 19
- Civility in War-Time -- For our contentious times, a look at the limits and virtues of civility. #mbi_context -- Nov 19
- The Scale-Up Problem -- We need to stop thinking in terms of mediation triads, and scale up conflict work to societal levels. #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 19
- PlusPeace's Narrative and Cultural Peacebuilding Activation Guidebook -- Tools to help people build peace among themselves, even in the most difficult circumstances. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 19
- Hey, Democrats . . . How Is All of This Working Out for You? -- From a conservative perspective, a bunch of hard questions that Democrats should be asking themselves but aren't. #mbi_context -- Nov 19
- Perspectives: Cancel Culture -- From AllSides.com, perspectives from across the political spectrum on "the cancel culture" #mbi_colleague -- Nov 19
- Your Political Autobiography -- An exercise designed to ground you in your best political self by remembering where you came from, what matters right now, and what you want to create. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 19
- Donald Trump is Just a Taste of What’s to Come. -- Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that it's all about Trump. A look at the longer-term future of US political conflict. #mbi_context -- Nov 18
- Engineering and Medical Troubleshooting Models -- Complexity-oriented approaches to conflict are more like medicine and less like engineering. #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 18
- Peace starts at home': US elections and what it means for the future of peacebuilding -- This article reports on interviews with numerous peacebuilders who assert that the U.S. peacebuilding focus should, after the election, be on the U.S. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 18
- The Joy of Appropriation -- An examination of the evolution of cultures and the importance of cross fertilization. #mbi_context -- Nov 18
- #Yes4YPS webinar series -- Commemorating the 5 year anniversary of UNSCR2250 on Youth, Peace, and Security. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 18
- Where Liberal Power Lies -- For those worried about right-wing authoritarianism, look at why the right is worried about left-wing authoritarianism. #mbi_context -- Nov 17
- Social and Psychological Complexity -- Those who seek power-over others are dealing better with social and psychological complexity. This needs to change! #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 17