Escalation Educators

7. Massively Parallel Roles & Tasks

Escalation Educators expose the dangers posed by conflict escalation and closely linked hyper-polarization, and help people in all walks of life learn the skills needed to avoid escalation and polarization in the first place, and if it is too late for that, reverse it and start to heal its wounds. Many organizations are warning about the dangers of escalation and hyper-polarization including (in addition to BI and this newsletter) the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, and the International Catalan Institute for Peace ICIP. Fortunately, many more are teaching the skills to prevent and reverse escalation and polarization. These include most conflict educators and most most bridge-builders, among others. Examples include: Citizen Connect which offers scores of videos on how to bring people together across political divides, More in Common which offers advice on how to build trust and limit animosities, and Rachel Kleinfeld who warns us about the possibility that overly alarmist and inflammatory rhetoric about the possibility of an imminent civil war may be counterproductive. 
 

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