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
- The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolyte -- The myth that a little bit of violence will solve our problems seems to be reemerging, even though violence hardens, rather than softens, opposition. #mbi_context -- Sep 09
- Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network -- A platform for researchers and activists working on issues of historical dialogue, historical and transitional justice, and public and social memory. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 09
- On Frank Speech -- A controversial and thought-provoking inquiry into a new phrase (for me at least) "frank speech" with important implications for today's conflicts. #mbi_context -- Sep 09
- Fighting Today's Oppression, Not Yesterday's Oppression -- Opposing today's injustices will require cooperation across the racial divides that were a focus of many of the unrightable wrongs of the past. #mbi_cci -- Sep 09
- The Center for Dispute Resolution Mediation Training Manual by Kenneth Cloke -- Want to learn how to mediate? This training manual was written by one of the best mediators in the field! #mbi_colleague -- Sep 09
- Power Strategy Mix -- Success is usually obtained by using a combination of two or three strategies, not just one--especially not just coercion! #mbi_cci -- Sep 09
- The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free -- A significant, but often not considered, reason why those with less income often base their opinions on less reliable sources. #mbi_context -- Sep 09
- Building The Commons -- Description of a pilot program addressing polarization on social media which suggests that positive, depolarizing change is possible. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 09
- The U.S. Is Facing the Possibility of a Truly Illegitimate Election -- A look at how to prevent the election from being sabotaged in ways that make it truly illegitimate. -- Sep 08
- What does "Justice" Mean? -- The political discussions about justice this summer of 2020 are very narrow; they should take a much wider view of what encompasses "justice." #mbi_cci -- Sep 08
- Adding Up To Peace: The Cumulative Impacts of Peace Programming -- Effective peacebuilding needs to adapt to a constantly updated and systemic analysis of the key drivers of conflict. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 08
- Suzanne Ghais: Bridging the Police Community Divide -- A reflection on the dangerous escalation between police and their communities and how to address that effectively for all constituencies. #mbi_cci -- Sep 08
- A Better Anti-Racism -- Being against racism is easy but actually doing something effective about it is much more difficult. Some ideas to consider. #mbi_context -- Sep 08
- Can the Coronavirus Heal Polarization? -- An exploration of how the pandemic could help us heal our polarization (if we can find a way past Trump's politicalization of the virus). #mbi_colleague -- Sep 08
- Our Post-Privacy World -- A look at the countless small steps through which our privacy has slowly disappeared and society has been transformed. #mbi_context -- Sep 08
- Media Development and Countering Violent Extremism: An Uneasy Relationship, a Need for Dialogue -- Describes how media development practitioners relate to peacebuilders working to combat violent extremism and how that relationship can be improved. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 08
- Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential. It’s also increasingly fruitless. -- For a world in which self-serving fantasy often replaces reality, a look at why we need fact-checking, why it isn't working, and a call for new ideas. #mbi_context -- Sep 07
- The Franco-German Relationship: From Animosity to Affinity -- If it is happened it must be possible: a story of how two enemies transformed their relationship through both symbolic and pragmatic steps. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 07
- What Will You Do if Trump Doesn’t Leave? -- A critical question as we approach an election that could easily lead to a disputed result and large-scale civil unrest, how will we respond? #mbi_context -- Sep 07
- The Blood-Boiling Trap -- Our tendency to focus on things that make us furious distorts the way we look at the world in ways that threaten rather than advance our interests. #mbi_cci -- Sep 07
- Racism 4.0, Civity, and Re-Constitution -- Palma Strand -- Current-day racism must be dismantled by developing positive relationships across racial groups. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 07
- Hyper-Polarization, the Pandemic, and the Need for a "Lifeboat Ethic" -- We are all, in a sense, on one giant lifeboat. Surviving the storm will require us to figure out how to work together more effectively. #mbi_cci -- Sep 07
- Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice -- Those of us who are lucky enough to have had a quality education tend to feel that we are somehow superior. This is a tendency that we need to fight. #mbi_context -- Sep 04
- Promote Escalation Awareness -- Conflict escalation is, arguably, "the most destructive force on the planet." It is what leads us into war and catastrophic acts of inhumanity. #mbi_cci -- Sep 04
- Social Media Impacts on Social and Political Goods: A Peacebuilding Perspective -- Lisa Schirch -- We need to be better at getting the benefits while controlling the costs and the dangers of social media. #mbi_colleague -- Sep 04
