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
- Meeting the Adaptation Challenge -- Speeding society's ability to rapidly adapt to changing conditions should be a key goal of the conflict field. #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 12
- How to Build a Life -- A column about pointing yourself toward happiness -- A series of provocative essays on the nebulous, but all important, topic of happiness---it's not just money and status. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 12
- Fareed Zakaria Lays Out Some Hard Lessons for Surviving Future Pandemics -- While we are starting to see glimmers of an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, we must remember that the next one could be worse. Thoughts on how to prepare. #mbi_context -- Nov 12
- George Lakey on Using Nonviolence to Prevent a Coup -- For worst -case planners: multiple articles about preventing a Trump authoritarian take over of American democracy. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 11
- Conservatives have lost sight of American aspiration -- A look at the American dream---the personal goals of average Americans. To what extent are our political parties helping people achieve these goals? #mbi_context -- Nov 11
- Resources for Saving our Country Using Nonviolent Resistance -- More for worst-case planners: info about a potential coup and what we can do to resist, updated daily. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 11
- The nation is diversifying even faster than predicted, according to new census data -- An update on the rapidly diversifying United States. Clearly, we need much more constructive ways of adapting to these changes. #mbi_context -- Nov 11
- The Really Big Picture Ecodynamics & Planetary Evolution -- An exploration of how understanding ecodynamics and evolution can help us deal with complex conflict. #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 11
- For Both Trump and Biden, the Old Economic Theories Don't Work Anymore -- A look at how much less we understand the global economic system than we thought we understood just a few years ago. A story with big political implications. #mbi_context -- Nov 10
- System Levels -- Simple models won't work! We must develop conflict intervention models for higher-level complex systems. #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 10
- U.S. Election Violence Is Not Inevitable: How To Prevent It Before, During, And After November 3rd -- A call for Americans to work together to prevent violence and address the accelerated conflict dynamics in the U.S surrounding the U.S. elections #mbi_colleague -- Nov 10
- Catching up with Chip Hauss and Imperative 21 -- In the wake of the still disputed US election, we have a massive amount of work to do to respond effectively to our many crises. Here's how to start. #mbi_cci -- Nov 10
- The Joe Biden I Knew Has Been Humbled -- A welcome re-emergence of the idea that politicians should be public servants. #mbi_context -- Nov 10
- A Joint Appeal to Protect the Rule of Law in the 2020 U.S. Elections -- A nonpartisan appeal for the rule of law in the U.S. elections made by lawyers, academics, philantropists, faith leaders, retired military & others. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 10
- Disinformation and falsehoods about Biden’s victory flood social media and search engines. -- This article, assuming that it's true, tells us a lot about how our information systems are being manipulated in ways that are driving us apart. #mbi_context -- Nov 09
- Complex vs. Complicated Systems -- Intractable conflicts are complex adaptive systems, so they need complex, adaptive responses. #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 09
- PlusPeace's Shine-on-the-Vote -- A call for all Americans to work to prevent violence and to encourage respect for a fair and free election process. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 09
- Dear Therapist -- For a time when we are all focused on big conflict problems, a collection of thought-provoking responses to interpersonal conflict problems. -- Nov 09
- Embracing Complexity: The Key to Dealing with Intractability -- Understanding the difference between complicated and complex systems is key to meeting today's multifaceted challenges. Simplistic solutions won't work. #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 08
- Let’s Argue Better. -- To get beyond the divisiveness of the Trump era, we are going to have to improve our ability to constructively handle and learn from our differences. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 08
- The Most Important Divide in American Politics Isn’t Race -- An important and persuasive argument that the progressive left, in its urban and cosmopolitan bubble, misunderstands the big fault line in US society. #mbi_context -- Nov 08
- Joe Biden triumphs over Trump, says it is ‘a time to heal’ even as Trump does not concede -- Biden's focus on the difficult challenge of healing our divided society is exactly what we need. We need to give him all the help we can. #mbi_context -- Nov 08
- There's No Escaping Who We Have Become -- It seems like coexistence offers a better way of dealing with our deeply divided society than a continuing, fruitless search for decisive victory. #mbi_context -- Nov 05
- What South Africa Can Teach the United States About Repairing a Divided Society -- Another "if it exists it must be possible" story. South Africa can teach us much about how to live with deep divisions and a history of unrightable wrongs. #mbi_context -- Nov 04
- Limits to Growth, Tragedies of the Commons, & the Conflict Problem -- Conflict problems associated with wisely and equitably managing the social, political, economic, and environmental "commons" are society's real "limit to growth." #mbi_fundamentals -- Nov 04
