- Talking Race and Democracy with Grande Lum -- The conflict resolution professionals' time has come. We need to step up to the plate! -- Feb 14
- Reader Responses on the Israel/Hamas War and Reconciliation and Justice -- You cannot provide facts, logic, or reasoning when it comes to “sacred values.” So what should one do when one group's "sacred value" calls for the total destruction of another group? -- Feb 11
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 11, 2024 -- Articles submitted by readers and our choices for interesting and important reading from within the conflict and peacebuilding field and beyond. -- Feb 10
- Elements of Reconciliation — Part 1: Justice -- Justice has many different meanings. If social justice is to be attained, we need to sit down together an negotiate which of the many meanings of justice we want to pursue--and how. -- Feb 06
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 4, 2024 -- Links from readers about Israel, Heidi's links from colleagues, and Guy's links from journalists and others in allied fields--all interesting and important reading in our view. -- Feb 04
- More Comments on Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees -- More reader comments and Ashok Panikkar's comments on those comments about the role of peacebuilding, force, and other approaches to the world's current most violent conflicts. -- Feb 01
- Ken Cloke: Free Speech on Campus: What Colleges and Universities Can Do - And Lorelie Kelly on How Universities Can Strengthen our Democrati -- There are no judicial or military solutions to the wars being fought around the world, or on our campuses. Our only choice is to learn to live together by settling, transforming, or transcending our conflicts. -- Jan 30
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 28, 2023 -- Links from readers and Guy exploring the themes of hyper-polarization, Israel, and related topics from within and beyond the peacebuilding field. -- Jan 28
- More Reader Comments On Israel and Intractable Identity Conflicts more Broadly -- A compilation of readers' thoughts on Israel and identity conflicts in general. We agree--they are intractable--but greatly in need of inspiration and new thinking! -- Jan 24
- Why Hope Dies Last...and Why I Stopped Being an Optimist -- When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes – you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others. -- Jan 23
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 14, 2023 -- Reader contributed and Guy's suggestions of interesting reads for the week relating to peacebuilding and hyper-polarization. -- Jan 14
- Martin Luther King from a Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Perspective -- A look at the now hard-to-imagine challenges faced by the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King, and the 1963 March on Washington; how they were able to overcome them; and what they can teach us today. -- Jan 14
- Deborah Lauffer and Katja Rieger on Peacebuilding, Israel/Hamas, and Future Visioning -- Two more readers contribute thoughts about the Israel/Gaza war and ways of envisioning a future we would all want to live in. -- Jan 10
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 7, 2024 -- Readings on Israel/Hamas war recommended by readers, more colleague activities articles and news, and writing from people in allied fields. -- Jan 06
- Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees: The Nature of Peace and Peacebuilding in a Collectivist and Illiberal World -- To understand why the peacebuilding field has failed to live up to its lofty ambitions, we have to unpack the world we inhabit today. Peacebuilding is not possible in many societies, and peacebuilders need to understand where their processes can work and where they cannot. -- Jan 05
- U.S. Election BI in Context Posts for January 3, 2023 -- A compendium of ideas from conflict strategists about the nature of the US hyper-polarization problem and ways to address that. -- Jan 02
- A New Year's Gift from Jay Rothman: 31 Definitions of Peace and You -- An exercise to help us all appreciate our inner and social experiences of peace, wholeness, and connection, as defined by many cultures around the world. -- Jan 01
- What Happens When We Have ANOTHER Election That Both Sides Absolutely Positively Can't Afford to Lose? -- The US 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be extremely challenging to U.S. democracy, but there are things that can be done to make sure it is both trustworthy and trusted. -- Dec 20
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of December 17, 2023 -- More thoughtful articles from colleagues, the media, and writers in allied fields. -- Dec 18
- Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1 -- An exchange between the Burgesses and Jack Williams examining how the Burgesses have come to make the several controversial assertions with respect to the Israel and Hamas war. -- Dec 15
- Envisioning a Future (Almost) Everyone Will Want to Live In -- How much could we change if we could just accept the fact that "America belongs to all who live here" and we set about the task, as South Africans did, to figure out how we could make that work for everyone? -- Dec 13
- Intersectionality Can Be Beneficial to Peacebuilding: Jay Rothman -- Jay Rothman shared his 2013 article in which "intersectionality" is seen as aiding intergroup cooperation, not harming it. -- Dec 11
- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of December 10, 2023 -- Reports from colleagues and others in allied fields about US democracy and related topics. -- Dec 10
- Is Intersectionality Dangerous or Benign? Colin Rule Weighs In -- Colin Rule says that intersectionality means that all oppressed people should support each other in their mutual efforts to realize their basic human rights to live in peace and have self determination, and hence is good. -- Dec 07
- Lisa Schirch's 5-Point Peace Plan for Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinians More Broadly + Katja Rieger's Comments -- Both Israelis and Palestinians deserve safety, justice, and dignity. They will only find these basic human rights when they can give them to each other. -- Dec 06