Beyond Intractability in Context Blog
From around the web, more insight into the nature of our conflict problems, limits of business-as-usual thinking, and things people are doing to try to make things better.
Beyond Intractability's efforts to promote more constructive approaches to conflict occur within the larger context of efforts to promote wise and equitable solutions to a broad range of social problems. This blog highlights readable news and opinion articles, "infographics" and reports that help us understand the costs--and hence, urgency -- of the conflict problem, the dynamics that make it so difficult, alternative responses, and innovative success stories about people who have successfully confronted various aspects of the problem in different settings.
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- Another "listening-to-both- sides-of-an argument post." This one, on "what the left gets right," complements an earlier post on "what the right gets right." #mbi_context -- What the Economic Left Gets Right About Politics
- A reminder that we will soon face additional, serious health challenges that will require us to move beyond today's destructive healthcare politics. #mbi_context -- When Antibiotics Stop Working
- Reflections on the many dangers swirling around the criminalization of hate. #mbi_context -- Ahmaud Arbery’s racist killers are grotesque, but their ‘hate crimes’ prosecution was a show trial
- A pretty sober and sensible analysis of the risks that the Ukrainian War could escalate into a large-scale nuclear confrontation. #mbi_context -- Putin Is Brandishing the Nuclear Option. How Serious Is the Threat?
- An exploration of something that is supposedly smarter than traditional tests of statistical significance! #mbi_context -- I’m a Parent and a Statistician. There’s a Smarter Way to Think About the Under-5 Vaccine.
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