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SJN is leading a global shift in journalism focused on advancing rigorous reporting about how people are trying to solve problems and what we can learn from their successes and failures
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The Solutions Journalism Network
SJN is leading a global shift in journalism focused on advancing rigorous reporting about how people are trying to solve problems and what we can learn from their successes and failures
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The World's Most Subversive Soap Operas
A story about Search's soap operas to teach reconciliation and inter-group understanding.
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Searh for Common Ground's The Team
A story about Search's soap operas to teach reconciliation and inter-group understanding.
News and Opinion
A Guide for Professional Journalism in Conflict Zones
Exploring the challenges of reporting news from conflict zones, this guide provides a "time out" for journalists to reflect on their role as investigators and deiverers of information to society.
News and Opinion
The Fulcrum
From The Bridge Alliance, "a platform where insiders and outsiders to politics are informed, meet, talk, and act to repair our democracy and make it live and work in our everyday lives."
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Cynthia Cohen: Artists Can Help Us Frame Our Coronavirus Narrative
Cynthia Cohen reflects on why art can help people make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic.
BI Article
The Power of Art in Gray Zone Conflicts
Michelle LeBaron reflects on the value of artistic approaches to complex, intractable gray-zone conflicts.
BI Article
Talk with Shamil Idress, CEO of Search for Common Ground
Heidi Burgess interviews Shamill Idress about his career, Search for Common Ground's work, current challenges facing Search, the peacebuilding field, and the world as a whole--and how we can meet them.
BI Article
Palma Strand: A Path Out of Polarization: The Strengthening Democracy Challenge and the Civity Storytelling Intervention
Civity is all about forming relationships across difference. It's the "secret sauce" of successful communities and organizations. And better yet, everyone can do it!
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Search For Common Ground
Mari -- Orgs dedicated to facilitating improved and effective communication between groups, nations, and other stakeholders involved in conflict prevention and peacebuilding
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Democracy is at risk. Ten newsrooms explored what's strengthening it.
Profiles of ten news organizations that are going beyond superficial, horse-race (who's winning, who's losing) political reporting and helping their audiences understand how democracy could be improved.
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Common Ground Committee's Podcast: Let's Find Common Ground
A podcast exploring paths to more progress and less division. How to find common ground with "the other side."
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International Storytelling Center
The International Storytelling Center believes that storytelling can yield a better life and a better world for the tellers and the listeners.
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Youth Talk: Youth Vocies for Change
This initiative of Search for Common Ground empowered a group of more than 100 young radio journalists to report on local conflicts and create radio programs to help people find common ground.
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Digital Community Stewards Training
This free online training curriculum aims to help digital community stewards who host online groups prevent harm and build social cohesion through those online interactions.
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ConnectEffect
This is a live, 60 minute entertainment experience that will profoundly shift the way you see "the other side." It is an "in-person hard reset of humanity."
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The Fulcrum
The Fulcrum is a platform where insiders and outsiders to politics are informed, meet, talk, and act to repair our democracy and make it live and work in our everyday lives.
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Democracy Caravan
A non-partisan podcast presenting stories about how Americans are finding common-sense solutions to what ails our political culture which aims to share hope and resources for constructive civic participation.
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Public Democracy America.
Public Democracy America works with partners across the country to use digital tools to improve access and outcomes for communities traditionally undervalued by markets and institutions.
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Aches, Pains, and Alternative Facts. Do the stories you tell yourself help you or hurt you?
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.