BI ArticleEbrahim Rasool on What America Might Learn From South Africa's 300+ Years of Struggle
A report on a talk by the former U.S. Ambassador from South Africa, on what the South African struggle for racial justice can teach Americans.
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Ebrahim Rasool on What America Might Learn From South Africa's 300+ Years of Struggle
A report on a talk by the former U.S. Ambassador from South Africa, on what the South African struggle for racial justice can teach Americans.
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Developing a Vision for a Society in Which We Would All Like to Live
With this newsletter, we start imagining a less polarized future with lessons from South Africa from Ebrahim Rasool as well as observations from Neal Kohatsu, Ken Cloke, and Duncan Autrey.
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If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, it Is Going to Be Hard to Get There
More on envisioning a society in which we all want to live: an elicitive approach suggests that Western democracies should try to visualize ways to improve those democracies, not replace them.
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Andrew Harward: A Vision of Constructive Political Conflict in The United States
A vision of how conflict resolution education might be used to bring an end to toxic polarization in the United States.
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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?
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From Chris Honeyman: Statement of J. Michael Luttig to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6, 2021 Attack on the United States Capitol
Chris Honeyman observes that prominent conservative Michael Luttig's statement to the January 6 committee reads very much like the CRQ feature article.
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Chip Hauss: Beyond Polarization
People and organizations in fields allied with peacebuilding are already engaging in massively parallel problems solving. Peacebuilders can learn from their examples.
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Stable Peace
This essay introduces the idea of a stable peace, or "a situation in which the probability of war is so small that it does not really enter into the calculations of any of the people involved.
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Envisioning
Envisioning is a process in which people try to see into the future--not only what they expect to happen, but what they would like to happen. In order to attain "peace," people must have an image of what "peace" would look like. Only then can they figure out what they need to do to get there.
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Shannon Kupersmith: We are at a complicated intersection with lots of roads. What if we use this opportunity to move forward in a better direction?
A reflection on what we might like the U.S. to look like 30 years hence, and how we might use the current disarray to actually get there (or get closer) to there.
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Jay Rothman: Systematic Collaborative Visioning for Conflict Resolution Action and Evaluation in the Post-Covid19 World
A summary of the conclusions of an action evaluation workshop examing the conflict field's response to COVID.
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David Eisner: History Rhymes: Lessons of Civic Renewal Then and Now
David Eisner points out astonishing similarities between our civic angst now and the turmoil of the early 1900s. He goes on to argue that we turned things around then and can do so again. Indeed, many people and organizations are already working on this effort.
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Imagining a better future for American democracy, with Suzette Brooks Masters
A much more positive way of looking at democracy's problems -- instead of focusing on things that are going wrong, focus on things that could go right.
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Catholic Peacebuilding in Times of Crisis
Vol. 12:2 of the Journal of Moral Theology featuring original articles coming out of the the Catholoic Peacebuilding Network's summer 2022 conference .
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India Eyes a New Identity
The government's preoccupation with "Bharat" caps a nativist surge under Modi. Can a country that is bogged down in battling its past ever truly hope to win a better future?