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Colleague Activities
Braver Angels
BA runs events where conservative and liberal participants attempt to better understand each other's positions and discover their shared values, which helps members advocate for their own side while taking into account other sides' values and needs.
Colleague Activities
National Governors Association's Disagree Better Initiative
The Disagree Better initiative will look at the problems of polarization, elevate the solutions that groups around the country are already implementing, and feature Governors showing what disagreeing better looks like.
Colleague Activities
Community Relations Service
CRS served as "America's Peacemaker" for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability. While they were disbanded by Trump in 2025, a great deal of information about their work can be found here.
Colleague Activities
Civil Rights Oral History Project.
Detailed oral histories with former Community Relations Service consiliators learning how they transformed racial and other intergroup conflicts from highly destructive into constructive relationships