- Constructively Navigating the World of Media Bias -- A look at the forces, including our own cognitive preferences, that produce a biased information environment and thoughts about what to do about it. -- Aug 03
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of Jul 30, 2023 -- Our regular colleague and context posts showing what are people are doing and thinking about intractable conflicts and democracy. -- Jul 29
- Jay Rothman and Daniella Cohen on the Aria Group School Intervention in Yellow Springs, Ohio -- Highly polarized conflicts are typically systems problems, and they need system-based solutions to be successfully addressed. Here's an example where that was done very well. -- Jul 27
- Harry Boyte and Marie-Louise Ström: Constructive Nonviolence -- Nonviolence can be a profound resource for addressing injustice, repairing torn relationships, and creating healthy civic life. And it is something we all can do, everyday. -- Jul 24
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 23, 2023 -- Our normal weekly links to interesting reading about democracy in the U.S. and around the world. -- Jul 23
- Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project: Modern Updates from Lum, Burgess, and Froehlich -- New civil rights mediator interviews provide a fascinating then-and-now comparison with earlier interviews conducted in 1999-2001. So much has changed--AND--so much has stayed the same! -- Jul 19
- Ted Wetzel's Disagreement Fitness -- Democracy only works if people understand how to work through disagreements constructively. "Disagreement Fitness" is a way to strengthen such skills. -- Jul 18
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 16 -- Our normal weekly links to interesting reading about democracy in the U.S. and around the world. -- Jul 15
- Contradictory Thoughts About Dialogue -- Dialogue can change attitudes, but those changes tend to be fleeting unless a great deal of thought and care goes into both the process and the aftermath. Designing for scale up is key. -- Jul 12
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 9 -- Reader-suggested articles along with Guy and Heidi's regular suggestions of colleague and context articles of interest for this week. -- Jul 08
- Bridging the Theory/Action Gap: One Key to Improving the Effectiveness of Efforts to Strengthen Democracy -- If democracy scholars and democracy actors began to know more about the activities of the other, both would see a benefit in terms of stronger pro-democracy outcomes. -- Jul 06
- Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess: The Key to Saving Democracy: Reducing Polarization? Promoting Justice? It Takes More Than That! -- There's no one answer to "saving democracy." We need to pursue many different things all at the same time. -- Jul 04
- A Remarkable Effort to Do Trauma-Informed Peacebuilding Training in Ukraine Amidst Ongoing Trauma -- A description of a longer "practitioner reflection" about trauma-informed peacebuilding training in Ukraine, and how that reflects on peacebuilding challenges in less challenged places as well. -- Jun 29
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of June 25, 2023 -- More colleague and context posts, along with three reader-suggested references. -- Jun 27
- Rachel Kleinfeld and Shamil Idriss on Polarization, Philanthropic Plurality, Social Justice, and Democracy -- Those seeking to improve democracy should hold themselves accountable for advancing both peace and justice through collaborative action to meet common goals. -- Jun 26
- Social Justice Advocacy, Bridge-Building and Philanthropy: How Do These Intersect? -- What role should philanthropy play in the effort to fix democracy? Can they help? How? Or should they bow out, acknowledging that they are making the problem worse? -- Jun 22
- Colleague and Context Posts for week of June 18 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict. -- Jun 18
- More Ways to Turn Down the Heat -- The second part of our short, readable summary (with lots of links) to what we collectively know about strategies for controlling destructive escalation. -- Jun 15
- Reversing or Better Yet, Avoiding, Destructive Escalation -- Once we understand the many ways in which escalation can trap us, we can avoid those traps. If we discover that we have already fallen into a trap, we can work to climb out--here are 5 ways to do that. -- Jun 08
- Palma Strand: A Path Out of Polarization: The Strengthening Democracy Challenge and the Civity Storytelling Intervention -- Civity is all about forming relationships across difference. It's the "secret sauce" of successful communities and organizations. And better yet, everyone can do it! -- Jun 07
- Colleague and Context for Week of June 4 -- More interesting reading from our colleagues within and outside the conflict resolution/peacebuilding field. -- Jun 05
- Divided Community Project: Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy -- One of the most important ways in which we can all act to strengthen our democracy is to speak out when others are acting in ways that threaten it. -- May 31
- Learning More about How the TRUST Network Does Massively Parallel Peacebuilding -- Democracy--and threats to it--are a complex adaptive system. We need complex, adaptive responses as well The TRUST Network is one. -- May 29
- Learning More about How the TRUST Network Does Massively Parallel Peacebuilding -- Democracy--and threats to it--are a complex adaptive system. We need complex, adaptive responses as well The TRUST Network is one. -- May 29
- Colleague and Context for Week of May 22 -- More news and activities from our peacebuilding colleagues and interesting readings from allied fields, particularly journalism. -- May 24