Colleague Activities
We are always looking for people doing interesting, intractable conflict-related projects to feature on our Colleague Activities Blog. See the Blog Homepage for information on how to submit your work.
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Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Back with Whole-of-Society tactics
This webinar reflected on the implications of this new type of warfare for liberal democracies. It highlights the need to build resilience and to increase collaboration between the public and private sectors.
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Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy
A really first-rate article that, from a different perspective and in a different way, is trying to do what Beyond Intractability is trying to do with our Hyper- Polarization Discussion.
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Veterans for Political Action
A nonprofit with a mission to mobilize veterans and supporters to advocate for election innovations to make our political system less toxic and more competitive.
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Princeton University's Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI)
BDI is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States by building community resilience.
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No One Votes for Democracy
Reflections on the perils of avoiding debates on substantive policy questions and replacing them with vague aspirations of "hope" and "greatness" and the demonization of political adversaries.
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Scaling-Up Peacebuilding and Social Justice Work: A Conceptual Model
An academic exploration of one of the most important and difficult challenges facing peacebuilders – scaling up their efforts to the point where they can positively alter the trajectory of society.
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Dismantling Structural Racism and Injustice
An AfP webinar discussing the ways structural racism contributes to the current state of affairs in our country and how we can move toward justice, peace, and reconciliation.
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Narrative Engagement Across Difference (NEAD) Project
The Horizons Project is joining forces with funders, researchers, and movement leaders to develop narrative competencies that can be used to strengthen democracies and combat rising authoritarianism.
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Toxic Polarization: What's the Left Got to Do With It?
An AFP panel looking at how the Left contributes to toxic polarization with Erica Etelson, author of Beyond Contempt with Debilyn Molineaux from the Bridge Alliance, and Steve House with Braver Angels.
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Civic Health Projects -- Short, simple interventions can reduce partisan animosity (yay)! So, what comes next?
Ninety ideas for correcting inaccurate stereotypes, appealing to common identities, role modeling, strengthening political leadership, highlighting the threat, modifying social media, etc.
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Bringing a Conflict Lens to the US and Corporations as Agents of Peace
The first of a series of webinars held by the Alliance for Peacebuilding examining the need for and methods for doing peacebuilding in the United States.
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Bridging Divides Initiative Report: Election 2020 Political Violence Data and Trends
A report on the events leading up to and following Jan. 6 show that patterns of behavior exhibited that day were established long before that date.
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How to Avoid High Conflict
In high conflict the focus becomes on "the other" not the substantive issue in dispute. This is very dangerous, but in this seminal article Amanda Ripley discusses the "ways out."
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The U.S. is Heading Toward a Second Civil War. Here Is How We Avoid It
From Peter Coleman, a colleague with a long history of research into the problems posed by complexity and intractability, thoughts about how to escape our current predicament.
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How to Save Democracy
From The Atlantic, a report on a massive, crowd-sourced effort to find and then test mass audience-based strategies for diffusing our hyper-polarized politics
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The Two-Party System is Failing Us
A discussion between Duncan Audrey and Benjamin Life discussing why the U.S.'s two-party system doesn't work, and what might be done about that.
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Strengthening Social Connection and Opportunities in Rural Communities
This report illustrates the benefits of including a broader array of voices in determining needs among residents of rural communities.
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Ethelo.com Case Studies
Case studies illustrating the many ways that Etholo has been applied to reach consensus solutions to tricky problems.
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America Talks Conversation Guide
A guide for participants in the National Week of Conversation; this can also be used by others wanting to have a productive conversation with people across differences.
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While Alaska votes, ranked-choice voting is gaining steam
From the president of FairVote, a report on efforts to help defuse hyper-polarization and promote collaborative democracy by encouraging the switch to Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).
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Midterm Monitor – A tool to analyze and assess the information landscape prior to the 2022 US midterm elections
An impressive effort to make what goes on in the largely hidden world of social media-based political advertising visible.
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Unite America
Working to improve our elections to elect leaders who will really represent us.
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The Democracy, Politics, and Conflict Engagement Initiative (DPACE)
A Mediators Beyond Borders initiative to enhance social movements and communities to engage in conflict constructively.
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Healthy Democracy
Healthy Democracy is a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that designs and coordinates innovative deliberative democracy programs
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Ethelo
Ethelo is a "digital democracy platform" that helps organizations come to consensus solutions after involving many stakeholders in an online deliberative process.