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
- How Russia Updated Its Disinformation Playbook for 2020 -- A detailed and authoritative look at the disinformation campaigns that are amplifying our many differences to potentially catastrophic levels. -- Sep 17
- International Idea: Supporting Democracy Worldwide -- IDEA, the Institute for Democracy and Election Assistance supports efforts to make democracy work worldwide. -- Sep 17
- Voters’ Attitudes About Race and Gender Are Even More Divided Than in 2016 -- A reminder that we are a long way from a national consensus on issues of race and gender. We need more constructive ways of addressing our differences. -- Sep 17
- 10 Ways Trump Is Becoming a Dictator, Election Edition -- A pre-election update of a long-running assessment of the degree to which Trump actually threatens the US with authoritarian rule. #mbi_challenge -- Sep 16
- Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory -- A great article for helping us think seriously about what's good and bad about Western civilization and its culture. -- Sep 16
- Meditative, Interest-Based Approaches to Political Conflicts -- Our willingness to achieve results at the expense of fairness and interpersonal trust fuels most of our political conflicts and makes them intractable. -- Sep 16
- The Nature and Origins of Oppression -- Hunter/gatherer societies were relatively egalitarian, but agriculture enabled and encouraged the formation of a social hierarchy. #mbi_fundamentals -- Sep 16
- Operation Infektion: A three-part video series on Russian disinformation -- A great video explaining the relationship between the "Active Measures" that Russia uses to destabilize adversaries and the Trump administration. #mbi_context -- Sep 16
- Police Face Backlash Over Virus Rules. Enter ‘Violence Interrupters.’ -- Amid police/community tensions, an example of how we might promote compliance with stronger measures to control the resurgent COVID threat. -- Sep 16
- How Putin Got Into America’s Mind -- A great many of our intractable political conflicts result from sinister manipulation, not heartfelt disagreements. -- Sep 15
- Procedural Justice -- The notion that fair procedures are the best guarantee for fair outcomes is a popular one. Procedural justice seeks to do just that. -- Sep 15
- Digital peacebuilding and the pandemic (part 2: on digital connection and bridge-building) -- Learn what is already being done, and what more is needed, to move peacebuilding into the age of pandemic and beyond. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 15
- Morton Deutsch on Understanding and Overcoming Oppression -- Oppression has been with us through the ages. Fortunately we have learned many strategies for overcoming it. -- Sep 15
- How to Fight Russian Trolls -- Americans are less likely to have their emotions manipulated if they are aware that manipulation is the goal. -- Sep 15
- The Centre for Women Peace and Security -- A space for scholars, practitioners, activists, policy-makers, and students to develop policies to help women in conflict. -- Sep 15
- Distributive Justice -- Distributive justice can be based on equality, equity, or need. The results are markedly different. #mbi_fundamentals -- Sep 14
- Next time someone sends you fake news, share these essential tips -- Things we can all do to defend ourselves and our communities from the epidemic of fake news that is making solving our many problems impossible. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 14
- The Return of "I'll Fight You for It" Rules -- Today's biggest question is whether collaborative problem-solving can resist the ongoing and aggressive reassertion of Machiavellian power. #mbi_frontiers -- Sep 14
- How whites born in 1982 have leaned politically over their lives -- An eye-opening window into generational differences in political perspective. Making diversity work requires accommodating these differences. #mbi_context -- Sep 14
- Online content moderation lessons from outside the US -- A review of actions nations other than the U.S. have taken to regulate social media platforms' behavior and liabilities. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 14
- The Media Learned Nothing From 2016 -- A look at how the media (and the rest of us) have failed to understand the fundamentally different nature of Trump-era political conflict. #mbi_context -- Sep 14
- A Free Market Manifesto That Changed the World, Reconsidered -- On its 50th anniversary, a wide-ranging exploration what we now think about one of the most consequential ideas of the century--libertarian economics. -- Sep 13
- Retributive Justice -- When people say they want "justice," in the U.S., this most often means retributive justice—they want someone to be punished for their wrongdoing. #mbi_fundamentals -- Sep 13
- Algorithm for Political Dialogue -- Political dialogue, mediation, and other interest-based processes are necessary to tackle the complex global problems we currently face. -- Sep 13
- The US Election, COVID, Racism, and the Constructive Conflict Initiative -- If ever the "peacemakers time is at hand," this is it! Join our effort to help share what peacebuilders know that can help. -- Sep 13