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 Orwell Test -- Thought-provoking reflections on what one of history's leading experts on authoritarianism might think of contemporary politics and the many people who are trying to co-opt his ideas. -- Dec 15
- Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1 -- An exchange between the Burgesses and Jack Williams examining how the Burgesses have come to make the several controversial assertions with respect to the Israel and Hamas war. -- Dec 15
- What is Peacebuilding -- The Alliance for Peacebuilding's new "story map" that explains what peacebuilding is and how it is done in words everyone can understand. -- Dec 13
- Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History -- Reflections on what it was that made the United States' economy so phenomenally productive and thoughts about why those sources of strength are being abandoned. -- Dec 13
- Envisioning a Future (Almost) Everyone Will Want to Live In -- How much could we change if we could just accept the fact that "America belongs to all who live here" and we set about the task, as South Africans did, to figure out how we could make that work for everyone? -- Dec 13
- Countermeasures for Mitigating Digital Misinformation: A Systematic Review -- This Synthesis Report reviews the findings from 588 peer-reviewed publications, from around the world and many disciplines, to highlight the most effective countermeasures for disinformation. -- Dec 12
- Intersectionality Can Be Beneficial to Peacebuilding: Jay Rothman -- Jay Rothman shared his 2013 article in which "intersectionality" is seen as aiding intergroup cooperation, not harming it. -- Dec 11
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of December 10, 2023 -- Reports from colleagues and others in allied fields about US democracy and related topics. -- Dec 10
- Why I Am a Liberal -- A defense of liberalism and an explanation of why it offers a more unifying vision for the future than the views now dominant on the left and right. -- Dec 07
- Is Intersectionality Dangerous or Benign? Colin Rule Weighs In -- Colin Rule says that intersectionality means that all oppressed people should support each other in their mutual efforts to realize their basic human rights to live in peace and have self determination, and hence is good. -- Dec 07
- Lisa Schirch's 5-Point Peace Plan for Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinians More Broadly + Katja Rieger's Comments -- Both Israelis and Palestinians deserve safety, justice, and dignity. They will only find these basic human rights when they can give them to each other. -- Dec 06
- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding: A Strategy for Building a Democracy That Lives Up to Its Ideals -- A summary of the Burgess's latest thinking about massively parallel peacebuilding and democracy building explaining how it is already taking place on a large scale. -- Dec 02
- The Global State of Democracy Initiative -- This Initiative provides evidence-based, balanced analysis and data on the state and quality of democracy for 173 countries, producing a variety of indices and an annual report. -- Nov 30
- Isolationism Makes a Perilous Moment More So -- Given the world's many complexities and dangers, it is understandably tempting to withdraw from it all. This article explains why that would be a big mistake. -- Nov 30
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of November 26, 2023 -- More important ideas from our colleagues and writers in allied fields. -- Nov 29
- My grand theory of the left -- For those who may have thought that intersectionality (or perhaps something else) explains the left's behavior, an essay that reminds us that things are more complex than that. -- Nov 25
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of November 19, 2023 -- More articles from our friends, colleagues and others about hyper-polarization as well as the Israel/Hamas war. -- Nov 19
- Transitioning to tripartisanship -- Between 40% and 44% of American voters, according to Gallup, do not identify with either major party. They need to be represented in Washington too. -- Nov 19
- Polarization and political violence: Rachel Kleinfeld. -- Ppeople talking across differences isn’t enough to end polarization, even if it can create goodwill.:Tthere needs to be institutional change and politicians who come together to defend democratic norms. -- Nov 18
- Progressives Aren’t Liberal -- An in-depth look at the evolution of the words "liberal" and "progressive" with real insights into the enormously important conflict between these two worldviews. -- Nov 16
- Finally, a book about critical social justice that its advocates might read -- A review and summary of Yascha Mounk major new, must-read book on intersectionality, the identity synthesis and an associated trap that is taking society in very dangerous directions. -- Nov 16
- The Israel/Hamas War: A Perfect Storm of Complexity and Chaos -- A consideration of the factors that are making the Israel/Hamas war so exceptionally difficult even to talk about (civilly at least) let alone solve. -- Nov 15
- Intersectionality, Israel, and Peacebuilding: How Do They Mix? -- Reflecting on messages from readers about our Israel/Hamas writing and why we see this as differently as we do from many of our colleagues. -- Nov 14
- More On the Israel/Hamas War from Contributors -- New comments from Israeli peacebuilder Julia Chaitin and U.S. psychotherapist Madeline Taylor about the Israel/Hamas war. -- Nov 10
- Dignity Press -- Dignity Press has published more than 30 books that explore the dynamics of human dignity and humiliation from diverse standpoints and global perspectives. -- Nov 10
