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
- Nine ways our COVID-19 Resilience Fund will strengthen communities -- People are finding ways to help: a report on humanitarian aid organization Mercy Corps' efforts to help communities during the pandemic. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 20
- FBI charges six who it says plotted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, as seven more who wanted to ignite civil war face state charge -- Unfortunately, there are people who would like to start a civil war. We need to be ready to respond in ways that will prevent their efforts from succeeding. #mbi_context -- Oct 20
- I’m a pro-life evangelical. In supporting Trump, my movement sold its soul. -- A look at what happens when the quest for the political power needed to advance one's moral objectives corrupts those beliefs. #mbi_context -- Oct 19
- Delegitimization -- Delegitimization drives escalation and violence. We can reverse it by deligitimizing escalation and violence! #mbi_fundamentals -- Oct 19
- DoSomething.org -- A platform for young people to create offline impact on race and other social issues. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 19
- Left Fascism -- For a time when the left condemns grassroots Republicans for not questioning their party's embrace fascist tendencies, a look at fascism on the left. #mbi_context -- Oct 19
- New Study by Digital New Deal Finds Engagement with Deceptive Outlets Higher on Facebook Today Than Run-up to 2016 Election -- An important analysis of Facebook interactions that reveals a dramatic increase in the influence of deceptive news sources. #mbi_context -- Oct 18
- 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). -- Oct 18
- Soliya -- A promising effort to empower young adults to engage with difference constructively. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 18
- How Trump is radicalizing the left -- An examination of how President Trump's provocative rhetoric is pushing the left toward ever more extreme and politically hard to defend positions. #mbi_context -- Oct 18
- Face -- It is much easier to get people to admit mistakes when you provide them with face saving opportunities to do so (and when you avoid humiliating them). -- Oct 15
- A call to restore America’s institutions, and to let them restore us -- Amid widespread social alienation and the breakdown of so many US institutions, a plea to refocus on rebuilding those institutions. #mbi_context -- Oct 15
- Death of Individualism -- Thought provoking reflections on the role of individualism in US culture and the way in which this is being altered by social media. -- Oct 15
- Biden Is Not Out of the Woods -- A cautionary look at where the election stands at the moment and the challenges associated with holding together a diverse coalition. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 14
- Does Nonviolence Work? -- Research shows nonviolence is far more effective than violence--it should be all protestors' go-to choice! #mbi_cci -- Oct 14
- Post-pandemic change? Humanitarian action and multilateralism in transnational times -- An assessment of the impact of the pandemic on future humanitarian work--and why it will be so badly needed. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 14
- She Hunts Viral Rumors About Real Viruses -- A profile of somebody whose job it is to hunt down and correct misleading information on social networks. We need more of this! #mbi_context -- Oct 14
- Dan Rather On Why America Needs More Empathy -- For a world in which we have increasingly demonized our political opponents, a persuasive and eloquent argument for empathy. #mbi_context -- Oct 08
- The Backlash Effect & Coefficient -- The backlash coefficient measures the degree to which the quest for victory intensifies, rather than subdues, the opposition. #mbi_frontiers -- Oct 08
- “Cancel Culture” Letter: 7 Tips from the Debate -- Solid advice on how we could much more constructively engage the complex issues swirling around the "cancel culture" debate. #mbi_context -- Oct 08
- Nonviolent resistance proves potent weapon -- An interview with the author of "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict" -- a topic that we all need to better understand. #mbi_context -- Oct 08
- How America Lost Faith In Expertise -- Tom Nichols -- Expertise is increasingly challenged--sometimes deservedly--but democracy requires trust-worthy and trusted expertise. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 08
- Lock Him Up? -- Two sides of an important debate over whether and how President Trump should ultimately be held accountable for his alleged crimes. #mbi_context -- Oct 07
- Coexistence -- Coexistence offers a promising alternative to today's all-out struggle for dominance among competing socio-cultural groups. #mbi_fundamentals -- Oct 07
- Weaving Community -- Lots of ideas of ways to connect with our communities in this time of enforced social distancing. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 07