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
- In Pursuit of Winning, We All Lose -- A much more promising way of dealing with today's tough controversies -- abandon winning and learn from constructive argument. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 04
- Salam Shabab -- The first reality TV program made to promote the empowerment of Iraqi youth. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 04
- Democracy Matters! HSD Election Watch Party! -- Human Systems Dynamics Institute is hosting a virtual dialogue about the past and future of democracy in the United States. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 02
- “I Cover Civil Wars. The State of America Right Now Makes Me Anxious.” -- A reminder that the goal can't just be to defeat President Trump. We have to repair and renew our society. #mbi_context -- Nov 02
- Intractable Conflict: A "Climate Change-Class" Problem -- The destructive way in which we handle society-wide conflict is as big a threat to humanity as climate change. It deserves comparable levels of attention. #mbi_frontiers -- Nov 02
- Tea with the People -- Conversations focusing on the intersection between the pandemic and America’s ongoing problem of race. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 02
- Not All Identities Are Created Equal -- An especially insightful and in-depth examination of the complexities of our overlapping identities #mbi_context -- Nov 02
- Moving Beyond Intractability Newsletter #36 -- Those who have been working globally on conflict and peacebuilding projects are now applying that expertise to the deep divisions within US society. #mbi_fundamentals -- Nov 01
- The Floor of Decency -- A call for folks on both the left and the right to start rebuilding the sense of common decency that has collapsed in the Trump era. #mbi_context -- Nov 01
- Waging Nonviolence -- An independent, non-profit media platform dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world. #mbi_colleague -- Nov 01
- So What -- A list of six things we all can do to move forward in these fightening and chaotic times. #mbi_cci -- Nov 01
- Don't Panic! -- With the election finally upon us, a relatively optimistic argument for putting worst-case scenarios in proper perspective. #mbi_context -- Nov 01
- Five Great Things Biden Has Already Done -- The most hopeful (and realistic) article that I have read about prospects for getting beyond the United States' destructive hyper-polarization. #mbi_context -- Oct 29
- Put Down the Brick…A Commentary on Community Economics -- We need to remember that difference is strength, and we should learn from and appreciate our differences, not fight them. #mbi_cci -- Oct 29
- Millions of Conversations -- Reaching across the U.S. to disrupt cycles of hate, combat misinformation, and challenge harmful stereotypes across all divides. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 29
- “I Cover Civil Wars. The State of America Right Now Makes Me Anxious.” -- A reminder that the goal can't just be to defeat President Trump. We have to repair and renew our society. #mbi_context -- Oct 29
- Kickoff Video for Living Room Conversation Election 2020: Moving Forward Together -- Recorded conversation with four leading political activists and two dialogue facilitators concerning the election. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 29
- The end of democracy? To many Americans, the future looks dark if the other side wins -- Moving beyond our destructive, us-or-them politics, will require the winners in next week's election to offer the losers a future they can live with. #mbi_context -- Oct 28
- Humiliation -- Providing face saving opportunities makes it much easier for people to admit their mistakes. Humiliating them makes it almost impossible. -- Oct 28
- The TRUST Network: Creating Connections Across Communities -- A broad network/platform designed to prevent violent conflict before, during and after the U.S. 2020 elections. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 28
- The most essential books of the Trump era are barely about Trump at all -- A big picture look at what we collectively think about the Trump era and an attempt to separate noise from genuine insight. #mbi_context -- Oct 28
- Election 2020: Moving Forward Together -- #MoveFwdTogether offers space and time to begin processing and healing with our fellow Americans – no matter how the election turns out. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 28
- Don’t Give Up on America -- For a time when everyone seems focused on all the things that are wrong with America, a plea for celebrating and strengthening the good things. #mbi_context -- Oct 24
- Third Siders -- Transforming our destructive politics will require the efforts of lots of different "3rd siders" -- each working on a different part of the problems. #mbi_cci -- Oct 24
- Yala Young Leaders -- A movement of young people across the Middle East and North Africa who are breaking down divisions and barriers to form a shared community. #mbi_colleague -- Oct 24
