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
- Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously -- An eloquent argument for getting past the inflammatory rhetoric and respectfully discussing how much of the shutdown is truly necessary. #mbi_context -- May 13
- Conflict Fundamentals Seminar/Blog -- Looking for something worthwhile to do amidst the COVID lockdown? Try reviewing the fundamental building blocks of the conflict and peacebuilding fields. #mbi_fundamentals -- May 13
- Democracy and Information During a Pandemic -- An interesting effort that could doubtless be expanded---systematically assembling stories that highlight pandemic success stories. #mbi_colleague -- May 13
- Fragile States Index 2020 -- The latest Fragile States Index offers an impressive look at global governance trends. (The US made the "most worsened over the long-term" list.") #mbi_context -- May 11
- John Lande on the Crisis-New-Normal (CNN) and the Normal-New-Normal (NNN) -- Humanity needs to make a choice. Will we travel down the route of disunity, or will we adopt the path of global solidarity? #mbi_colleague -- May 11
- How to Get the Truth About the Pandemic -- It Is Time for an Independent Commission on COVID-19 -- This is the kind of thing that we used to be able to do--appoint an independent fact-finding commission to help get us past self-serving interpretations of events. #mbi_context -- May 11
- We Need National Service. Now. -- A compelling argument for expanding national service opportunities as a way of building civic culture and putting people back to work. #mbi_context -- May 08
- It’s Time to Build a Better Political Culture -- Given the dysfunctional nature of the US contemporary political culture, it seems like a good idea to start reading up on strategies for fixing things. #mbi_context -- May 08
- Want to Avoid the Next Pandemic? Hire a Devil’s Advocate. -- A job description for a new, surprising, and badly needed profession – devils advocate. #mbi_context -- May 07
- To Protect Democracy We Need to Upgrade our Cognitive Immunity -- A insightful strategy for counteracting propaganda built around the application of biological concepts of immunity to the social system. #mbi_context -- May 07
- America Needs a Rebirth of Public Service -- We must figure out how to strengthen public institutions by reforming them internally and defending them from politically motivated attacks. #mbi_context -- May 06
- Two Errors Our Minds Make When Trying to Grasp the Pandemic -- A look at strategies for overcoming two cognitive biases they can make life in the Pandemic-era vastly more miserable than it needs to be. #mbi_context -- May 05
- Trump and the GOP have a plan for governing during a pandemic: Just don’t -- We are in the midst of a real-world test of the belief that we don't need government, and all we (or at least the rich) need is an unregulated market. #mbi_context -- May 05
- Mark Chupp - An Exponential Rise of Trust and Goodness -- Yes, COVID-19 is growing exponentially. But so, too, is goodness and trust, which can be harnessed to counter the virus. #mbi_colleague -- May 05
- Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna Unveil Essential Workers Bill of Rights -- Given how many "essential workers" are getting sick and that they have been taking care of us for a long time, we need something like Warren's bill. #mbi_context -- May 04
- Nearly seven weeks into the shutdown, here’s why so many are still getting sick -- This article makes painfully clear that we must strongly support efforts to better is protect (and compensate) all of those "essential" workers. #mbi_context -- May 01
- Louis Kriesberg: On Taking Action -- Fight despair by taking action--doing something relevant to you to address our personal and collective predicament. #mbi_colleague -- May 01
- The Call to Unite -- This is a broadly based and truly impressive effort to bring us together to address the many different aspects of the pandemic crisis. #mbi_colleague -- Apr 30
- The first modern pandemic -- A refreshing and in-depth look at the many aspects of the pandemic response, from a billionaire who has devoted his fortune and intellect to the problem. #mbi_context -- Apr 29
- FDA is slowing down production of hand sanitizers -- For those who wondered, a look at why we can't get hand sanitizer (and the complex obstacles that we have to find ways to overcome). #mbi_context -- Apr 29
- Constructive Conflict Initiative / COVID-19 Blog -- COVID-19 has brought us to a crossroads. We can continue our destructive, us-vs-them confrontations or we can learn to work genuinely together. #mbi_cci -- Apr 29
- It’s Not Too Late to Go on Offense Against the Coronavirus -- This is a picture of what an effective campaign against COVID-19 looks like. We need better ideas for overcoming the political obstacles to doing this. #mbi_context -- Apr 28
- Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal -- A great overview of good ways and the bad ways in which the pandemic and the election are changing the way we communicate online. #mbi_context -- Apr 28
- Chip Hauss: Shifting from "Me First" to "We First" and Other "Takes" on the Coronavirus -- We must all worth together to address the pandemic--and all of the other complex, wicked problems we face. #mbi_cci -- Apr 27
- States Reopening -- The Flip Side is an interesting effort to highlight reasonable arguments being offered on the left and the right. This issue looks at "reopening." #mbi_context -- Apr 27
