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.

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).

An impressive effort to make what goes on in the largely hidden world of social media-based political advertising visible.

Working to improve our elections to elect leaders who will really represent us.

A Mediators Beyond Borders initiative to enhance social movements and communities to engage in conflict constructively.

Healthy Democracy is a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that designs and coordinates innovative deliberative democracy programs

Ethelo is a "digital democracy platform" that helps organizations come to consensus solutions after involving many stakeholders in an online deliberative process.

An annual online event matching 1000s of people across the political divide to talk, listen, learn and act together. Last held April 24-30, 2022.

How do we embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems?

Another "if it being done it must be possible" story -- an extensive collection of resources explaining how people are successfully collaborating despite deep differences.

For those wanting to help strengthen democracy by strengthening civic education, a report on where things now stand.

A second essay on ways in which a mass movement for strengthening democracy might be established.

“Keystone habits” have the power to start a chain reaction, changing other habits as they move through an organization or system. They can jump start collaboration.

Applying the prinicples of living (biological) systems to social systems to help address threats and redesign those systems to thrive.

An alternative to traditional winner-take-all and ranked choice voting to give voting more meaning and to discourage extremism.

A project exploring how our social systems and institutions need to be redesigned if free, open, non-authoritarian societies are to survive.

A video discussing why modern day governance isn't working, and what every individual must do within themselves to enable us as a community and society, to work out our problems together.

The ultimate responsibility for good governance in a democracy falls to the voting citizenry, which can only exercise this duty well when it has accurate information about the world.

Daniel Schmactenberger and Jordan Greenhall talk about listening for the "meaningful signal" hidden within the "noise" of any statement.

Provocative thoughts on a critically important (and often neglected) question, how can the many groups working to support and strengthen democracy integrate their efforts into an effective social movement?

A strategy for offering voters the choice of moderate, compromise-oriented governance in the event that both US political parties nominate extremist candidates.

An announcement of an upcoming online conference that tries to do more than criticize existing diversity equity and inclusion programs, it tries to offer a less divisive and more unifying alternative.

As we struggle with today's many problems, we are going to have to take on deeper systemic challenges. This will require us to learn how to embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems.

Amid the flood of deceptive efforts to influence our votes in the upcoming US election, a project focused on helping people fulfill their civic obligations through informed voting.

From Omni-Win, an exploration of the "backfire effect," a cognitive bias that leads us to misinterpret information that challenges our beliefs as, instead, reinforcing those beliefs.