Frontiers Seminar Blog
Constructive Confrontation Initiative Spring 2018 Posts to Date
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Posts ordered from most recent to earliest.
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How might the super-rich be persuaded to do the right thing? How might the cosmopolitan elite better earn the public's support and trust?
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Find out about building a "conflict mirror" (so you can understand why you make others so mad) other constructive conflict strategies.
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Find out how you can combat the destructive conflict dynamics that are making the left/right divide so intractable.
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The first key to saving democracy is to understand how that differs from simply trying to advance partisan objectives.
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A complexity-based approach to strengthening democracy and avoiding authoritarian populism
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Today's most serious conflicts are, in large part, being engineered by those who seek power over the rest of the society.
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Democracy depends on separating the authoritarian/plutocratic threat from left/right cultural and distributional conflicts.
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The widely misunderstood complexity of "who gets what" distributional conflicts explains much of our inequality problem.
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The evolutionary, neurobiological foundation of the cultural divide requires approaching it with mutual tolerance and respect.
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Like the proverbial frog in hot water, democracies have been sliding toward authoritarianism with too few people recognizing the danger.
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Meeting the challenge of authoritarian populism will require a sophisticated understanding of "who is fighting who over what."
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Find out what you can do to strengthen democracy while reducing the risk of authoritarianism.
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How can populist revolts address the real failures of establishment elites without falling victim to authoritarian temptations?
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Widespread, and overly simplistic, "us vs. them" ways of thinking about conflict underlies much of its destructiveness.
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While there is no simple way to "resolve" intractable conflicts, a complexity-oriented approach can make them less destructive.
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We need a new strategy tailored to intractable conflict's gigantic, tangled web of causes and consequences.
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Nests, cycles, attractors, and paradigms -- new ways of thinking about conflict and its resolution.
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More of the same isn't enough--we need new approaches to successfully address intractable conflicts.
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Destructive dynamics associated with intractable conflict are as big a threat as climate change. Find out why!
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Don't get angry--get effective! This video shows how!
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Factual and procedural disputes, framing, miscommunication, and escalation are “overlay problems” that make intractable conflicts even harder to resolve.
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Wonder why conflict mapping matters? This video shows how it can totally change your approach to a conflict.
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Conflict mapping lets you see what's going on in a conflict, so you can figure out how to engage to have the most positive impact.
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Cynicism, reinventing the wheel, information friction and overload are among the problems that need to be tackled.
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The ten challenges of MPP are daunting, but there is a role here for everyone.
