Recent Beyond Intractability Posts
Including Hyper-Polarization Posts
Posts by BI Section
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Hyper-Polarization Discussion Posts | Earlier Constructive Conflict Initiative Blog
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Beyond Intractability in Context | Colleague Activities
- Does Anyone Have a Clue About How to Fight Back Against Trump’s Racism? -- A look at the way in which political strategists are trying (and failing) to find a broadly accepted way of addressing racial issues. #mbi_context -- Feb 27
- Trump Is Waiting and He Is Ready -- An overview of the latest research on the extent to which US politics is dominated by disinformation. What does this mean for electoral strategy? #mbi_context -- Feb 17
- Mike Bloomberg Is Hacking Your Attention -- Bloomberg raises big ethical questions for those who oppose Trump's information warfare tactics: To what degree should we fight "fire with fire?" #mbi_context -- Feb 17
- Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking -- Further evidence that Google is accommodating itself to a world in which there are no agreed-upon facts. #mbi_context -- Feb 17
- Coronavirus ‘Hits All the Hot Buttons’ for How We Misjudge Risk -- A look at the real world psychology of how we think about risk that can help us better protect ourselves while also limiting our anxieties. #mbi_context -- Feb 14
- Cultural Lag -- Today's culture wars are largely attributable to the fact that the different generations adapted their beliefs to very different social conditions. #mbi_fundamentals -- Feb 14
- The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake -- Must reading for anyone trying to understand the historical evolution of US family structures and an intriguing idea for making things better. #mbi_context -- Feb 14
- The Muslim World’s Question: ‘What Happened to Us?’ -- A reminder that some events can cast very long shadows. A look back at 1979 and how the Middle East came to be the way that it is. #mbi_context -- Feb 11
- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding -- MPP offers a strategy for combining our collective knowledge and skills into a large-scale effort to promote more constructive approaches to conflict. #mbi_frontiers -- Feb 11
- Democracy and Dictators Are Under Pressure to Provide Responsiveness and Accountability -- Semi-good news--it's not just democracy that is in trouble. Autocrats are also under fire for failing to govern in wise and equitable ways. #mbi_context -- Feb 11
- Democrats: Don’t Screw Up Like Britain’s Labour Party Did -- For those trying to figure out how we can build support for a democracy that serves everyone, lessons from the history of the UK Labour Party. #mbi_context -- Feb 10
- Regulating fact from fiction: Disinformation in political advertising -- As a starting point for thinking about the disinformation problem, concrete suggestions from Brookings. #mbi_context -- Feb 07
- Focus on Fixing the Problem, Not Attacking People -- Excellent, time-tested advice that's worth remembering as we struggle with the bunch of very difficult problems. #mbi_to_do -- Feb 07
- How to Win the Battle Over Data -- A strategy for winning the information war, an ongoing act of international aggression that we've yet to take seriously. #mbi_context -- Feb 06
- The 2020 Election Will Be a War of Disinformation -- An in-depth and terrifying look at how increasingly sophisticated disinformation tactics threaten the upcoming election. We need a constructive response. #mbi_context -- Feb 06
- The Divide and Conquer Authoritarian / Plutocratic Threat -- Today's most serious conflicts are, in large part, being engineered by those who seek power over the rest of the society. #mbi_frontiers -- Feb 06
- Citizen University -- Citizen University – an interesting effort to start building the civic skills that are now so sorely lacking. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 05
- The New Coronavirus: A Very 2020 Epidemic -- An update that explains the many ways in which global collaborative skills and trust earning will be key to containing the Wuhan virus. #mbi_context -- Feb 04
- When the Culture War Comes for the Kids -- A must read article for parents trying to think through the many tough choices that today's educational system demands. #mbi_context -- Feb 04
- “The Shifting Definition of Mixed-Race in America” -- A provocative essay to help you start thinking about the increasing complexity of racial identity in the United States. #mbi_context -- Feb 04
- The Right to Listen -- As citizens of a democracy, we need to hear one another. Why can’t we? -- For a country that cherishes freedom of speech, a story about a corresponding obligation – the obligation (and the privilege) of listening. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 03
- Into-the-Sea Framing -- We need to quit dreaming of defeating and disempowering fellow citizens with whom we disagree. Instead, we need to figure out how to live together. #mbi_fundamentals -- Feb 03
- The Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight -- The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock is an interesting strategy for drawing attention to low probability but catastrophic risks. #mbi_context -- Jan 31
- Reconciliation Index -- Something to think about on a day when the US seems more irreconcilable than ever -- what would reconciliation look like? #mbi_videos -- Jan 31
- Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generations -- If culture is changing this fast, maybe we should give those who haven't changed yet a break? #mbi_context -- Jan 31
