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
- 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
- 'I wanted to take action': behind the 'Wall of Moms' protecting Portland's protesters -- A real-world example of how ordinary citizens can combine their efforts in ways that make a significant difference – this time as peacekeepers. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 17
- I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup -- For the purposes of building a coalition, we are pretty good at tolerating differences. Trouble comes in extending that tolerance with the other side. #mbi_context -- Nov 17
- What Trump can learn from Boris in fighting fake news -- An article in The Spectator by author of a book on the Information Wars, Jankowicz highlights how serious this problem is. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 17
- Plymouth Rock Landed on Them -- Thoughtful reflections on another big historical event, the Plymouth Rock landing and centuries of global migration to the Americas that followed. #mbi_context -- Nov 16
- Our Most Important Conflict: Coexisters vs. Fighters vs. Divide & Conquerors -- We need to resist "divide and conqueror" efforts to control society by exacerbating and exploiting left/right tensions. #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 16
- PEACEapp -- PEACEapp uses "gamified" app and videogame platforms to build understanding among people from diffferent cultures and religions. The US needs one. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 16
- The World Is Trapped in America's Culture War -- A look at US-based social media technology, the US culture war, and how it's affecting the rest of the world. #mbi_context -- Nov 16
- Matt Legge's Free Workshop Series on Building Understanding in A World of Hate and Division -- Based on Legge's book "Are We Done Fighting?" Five free Sunday afternoon Zoom sessions to give us better conflict skills. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 16
- The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation -- Is our sacred right to free speech leaving us exposed to insidious efforts to divide and destabilize our society? How can we better protect ourselves? #mbi_context -- Nov 15
- The Evolutionary Choice: "Power With" or "Power Over" -- An explanation of why this may be our best/last chance to make democracy work (and avoid autocracy and anocracy). #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 15
- Peacebuilding and the Arts - 2020 Newsletter -- Exploring ways that art and culture can help us deal with our multiple current crises. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 15
- The Narcissism of The New York Times’ Foreign Coverage -- A reminder of the serious misunderstandings that can arise when you look at other places through the framework of your own situation. #mbi_context -- Nov 15
- How Do We Build a Better Society? Have Better Arguments -- Practical advice for transforming conflict into genuine learning opportunities while, at the same time, saving relationships. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 15
- ‘Do something. Do something!’ -- A call for civic involvement. When things are bad, don't just complain, get involved in efforts to fix things. #mbi_context -- Nov 12
