An article by Amanda Ripley looking at how journalists can write better stories to help people become less polarized and suspicious.

Play is valuable because it helps fuel innovation, promotes wellness, creates new models of strategic thinking, expands leadership opportunities, builds community, and invites wholeness.

An online guidebook for peacebuilders interested in using digital tools to advance their work.

An eight-point scale that scores speech on its power to unite or divide. Start your own journey by taking the Dignity Pledge.

Places to start: strengthening the electoral system, encouraging the value of public service, and focusing less on identity that divides us and more on commonalities that unite.

INI is a new nonprofit which bridges negotiation research and practice, provides negotiation thought leadership, and mobilizes capacity for highler levels of negotiation competence and excellence.

A Chip Hauss blog post looking at how cognitive behavioral therapy can be brought "to scale" and used for conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

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.

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.

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. 

BDI is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States by building community resilience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ninety ideas for correcting inaccurate stereotypes, appealing to common identities, role modeling, strengthening political leadership, highlighting the threat, modifying social media, etc.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

This report illustrates the benefits of including a broader array of voices in determining needs among residents of rural communities.

Case studies illustrating the many ways that Etholo has been applied to reach consensus solutions to tricky problems.