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Guy Burgess: The QED Trap
A description of a social-psychologiical trap in which people become absolutely convinced that their views are 100% right and their opponents are 100% wrong.
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Can peacebuilders, development, and humanitarian workers collaborate for better outcomes? This article explores the obstacles and opportunities.
Can peacebuilders, development, and humanitarian workers collaborate for better outcomes? This article explores the obstacles and opportunities.
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Lack of Support for Compromise-based Solutions
In our hyper-polarized political environment, compromise is seen as "selling out" ones' own side. So it is seldom even considered as a plausible approach to problem solving.
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Failure to Search for and Recognize Potential Compromises
Even when parties do sit down together, they often assume that they are in a win-lose situation, and work to win the most they can, instead of trying to either collaborate to "enlarge the pie," or at least look for legitimate compromises that would share whatever is being negotiated fairly.
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Lack of Forums for Negotiation or No Acceptable 3rd Party
Sometimes there isn't a neutral forum where parties can meet to negotiate, and they aren't willing to meet on the turf of one side or the other, for fear the forum itself will bias the proceedings.
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Promote Collaborative Problem Solving
Much of the success of democratic systems stems from their ability to identify shared problems, assess the strengths and weaknesses of possible solutions, work through differing opinions and priorities, and reach workable compromises.
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Collaborative Problem Solving/Consensus Building
Collaborative Problem Solving (also called consensus building) is used to settle conflicts that involve many parties and complicated issues. The approach seeks to transform adversarial confrontations into a cooperative search for information and solutions that meet all parties' interests and needs.
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Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative leadership focuses on shared problem analysis, problem solving, and decision making. It involves actively engaging representatives of all stakeholders in the decision making process, communicating openly, and valuing diverse perspectives.
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Collaborative Problem Solvers
The complexities of modern society make it very difficult to negotiate agreements on ways to solve problems that wisely and equitably balance competing interests. Collaborative problem solvers can help us do this.
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Consensus Builders
Consensus Builders go beyond the negotiation and mediation of relatively small scale disputes to help those involved in complex, multi-party disputes develop a broad consensus on ways of handling complex clusters of interlocking issues that affect large numbers of people and involve multiple interest groups.