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Civic Knowledge and Skills That We Can Use to Help Ourselves and Our Society More Constructively Handle Intractable Conflict
In order to contribute effectively to this massively parallel effort, individuals need to strengthen their understanding of the way in which democratic societies handle conflict and options for handling those conflicts more constructively. (This knowledge helps handle interperonsal conflicts more constructively, too.)
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Taking Advantage of (and Promoting) Nonpartisan Civic Education
Promoting (and getting) good civic education is an important first step. We all need to understand how our government is supposed to work, so we understand when it is doing what it is supposed to do and when it is not. And we need to know how we can respond when the government is not fulfilling its duties.
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Conflict Educators / Trainers
Conflict Educators and Trainers help speed the flow of information on more constructive ways of handling conflict that show people that there are better ways of preventing and solving conflict than fighting (sometimes violently) about it
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Civic Skill Builders
Civic Skill Builders teach citizens about the advantages of democratic systems and how to use those systems to constructively handle the large number of difficult conflicts that inevitably occur in any modern society.
Colleague Activities
Do Americans have civic role models?
New research, by More in Common and others, indicates that we have a reason to be concerned about the status of Americans' civic disposition.
Colleague Activities
Civics, Democracy, and Civic Learning Week (With Elizabeth Clay Roy and Abbie Kaplan)
What does civics education have to do with our moment of democratic crisis? How do we create citizens with a sense of agency over society? This video discusses these issues.
News and Opinion
Why We Need Civics
A compelling argument for strengthening the teaching of "civics" -- the underlying commonality that binds together US democracy's diverse citizenry.
News and Opinion
By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars
An argument that a big part of our hyper-polarized politics is the direct result of the failure of our educational institutions to teach the civic skills and values upon which democracy depends.
News and Opinion
By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars
An argument that a big part of our hyper-polarized politics is the direct result of the failure of our educational institutions to teach the civic skills and values upon which democracy depends.
News and Opinion
The Character-Building Tool Kit
An argument that the cultivation of "character "is a big (and much neglected) aspect of building a society and a democracy that truly works.
Newsletter Topic Lists
Civic Education
Colleague Topics: Constructive Approaches to Conflict
Newsletter Topic Lists
Civic Education
News Topics: Constructive Approaches to Conflict