Recent Beyond Intractability Posts
Including Hyper-Polarization Posts
Posts by BI Section
Lists of recent posts are also available separately for each BI Section:
Hyper-Polarization Discussion Posts | Earlier Constructive Conflict Initiative Blog
Things You Can Do To Help | Conflict Frontiers | Conflict Fundamentals
Beyond Intractability in Context | Colleague Activities
- What is the Building Civic Bridges Act and Why Support it? -- A set of essays from conflict resolvers, advocates, a retired four-star general, an educator, a business leader, and others about why the Building Civic Briedges Act is so important. -- Mar 23
- America’s Most Overlooked Political Divide Is Also Its Most Revealing -- A persuasive argument that we ought to be paying a lot more attention to the conflict between political activists and everyday citizens. -- Mar 23
- How to beat the backlash that threatens the liberal revolution -- From Fareed Zakaria, an overview of his major new analysis of threats to liberal democracy. -- Mar 23
- Heidi Burgess Talks With James Coan about Taking De-Polarization Work "to Scale." -- Dialogue is great for the few participants, but it simply cannot be scaled up enough to change societal attitudes and behaviors. James Coan and Heidi Burgess discuss alternative ways to scale depolarization work. -- Mar 18
- Toda Peace Institute's Global Outlook: March 2024 -- This issue has articles on the Korean Peninsula, New Zealand's landmark decision on climate, COP 28, and the most worrying international conflicts. -- Mar 17
- You're Thinking About Polarization All Wrong -- Another look at the problem of hyper-polarization -- one that argues that partisan blocs are less rigid than it might appear. -- Mar 17
- 3 Ways to Make Conflict Less Destructive -- From Bill Ury, one of the biggest names in the conflict resolution field, his thoughts on things we can do to escape spirals of destructive conflict. -- Mar 16
- Will you join the supermajority for constitutional democracy? -- A thoughtful essay exploring threats to democracy and steps that might be taken to address those threats. -- Mar 16
- Colleague and Context Links for the Week of March 17, 2024 -- Submissions from readers, activities and publications from colleagues, and interesting articles from allied fields about conflict, peace, and democracy. -- Mar 16
- Peacebuilding Starts at Home -- A new Alliance for Peacebuilding initiative intended to educate and raise awareness about the drivers of instability and conflict in the U.S. and responses to that. -- Mar 14
- Gaza, Ukraine, Increasing Global Tensions, and the Nature of War -- An exploration of Quincy Wright's image of total war, reasons why it is so much more dangerous than lesser armed conflicts, and mechanisms through which it could quickly spread around the world. -- Mar 13
- Colleague and Context Links for the Week of March 10, 2024 -- Our usual Sunday link suggestions from readers, together with our compilation of interesting colleague activities, plus news and opinion articles of interest to the conflict field. -- Mar 09
- Closing Civic Space in the United States: Connecting the Dots, Changing the Trajectory -- From Rachel Kleinfeld, thoughts on opposing the use of regulations, laws, and narratives to restrict the ability of civil society organizations to act and speak. -- Mar 09
- Google's Culture of Fear -- inside the DEI hivemind that led to gemini's disaster -- A must-read article describing how DEI has transformed the Google culture and is threatening to transform our image of reality (as we see it through the lens of Google's monopoly). -- Mar 09
- Bari Weiss: What it Means to Choose Freedom, Supplemented by Franklin Foer and the Burgesses -- Bari Weiss (The Free Press) and Franklin Foer (The Atlantic) reflect on the meaning of the war in Gaza and world response to it, to prospects for the survival of liberal democracy worldwide. The two, they agree, are linked. -- Mar 08
- Overcoming digital threats to democracy -- A report outlining the ways in which the tools of deliberative democracy could be used to better govern information technologies and help protect the larger society. -- Mar 07
- An Antidote to the Polarization Poison -- A fresh look at the threat posed by polarization along with proposals for better protecting ourselves. -- Mar 05
- Our divided nation will fall unless we return to American pragmatism -- Our country is disturbingly polarized, and the future of our republic is at stake if we don’t change course ... and soon. This long-time civil servant observes that we are our own worst enemy. -- Mar 05
- Bill Froehlich Talks about the Ohio State Divided Community Project -- A summary of a conversation Bill Froehlich about the work of the Divided Community Project which works to help deeply divided communities come together to prevent, and respond to civic strife. -- Mar 04
- Colleague and Context Links for the Week of March 3, 2024 -- More readings and videos suggested by readers, along with our weekly pick of colleague activities and important writing from outside our field. -- Mar 03
- The Age of Amorality -- A look at one of the most difficult questions facing liberal democracies -- the need to use illiberal means to defend those democracies. -- Mar 02
- Equity, Equitist, Equitism -- An insightful new effort to clarify the conflict between the equity of the social justice movement and the egalitarianism of liberal democracy. -- Mar 02
- How to Disagree Better -- From the Atlantic, links to three articles outlining ways in which we can discuss controversial issues more constructively. -- Feb 29
- The Cure for What Ails Our Democracy -- From David Brooks, an insightful look at the virtues of pluralism and the dangers of monism -- the belief that one possesses the one true answer and that anyone who disagrees is evil. -- Feb 29
- What Americans don’t get about Israelis Fighting for their Lives -- From Israel, an attempt to correct some of the misperceptions that Americans have about the war. -- Feb 28
