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A Remarkable Effort to Do Trauma-Informed Peacebuilding Training in Ukraine Amidst Ongoing Trauma
A description of a longer "practitioner reflection" about trauma-informed peacebuilding training in Ukraine, and how that reflects on peacebuilding challenges in less challenged places as well.
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Harry Boyte On Nonviolence Training and Effective Nonviolent Action
A reflection on the relationship between love and power and what makes nonviolent protests effective.
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Teacher, Consensus Builder and Advocate Frank Dukes Talks with Guy and Heidi Burgess About Balancing Those Three Roles
Frank Dukes talks about how he balances his three roles of conflict resolution practitioner, teacher/trainer, and human rights advocate in this wide-ranging interview.
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Limited Civic Skills
As we have often said in these pages, "democracy is not a spectator sport." Strong democracies require strong civic engagement. But fewer and fewer Americans have the civic knowledge or skills to participate effectively.
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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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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.
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Educating for American Democracy (EAD)
EAD is a call to action to invest in strengthening history and civic learning in K-12, and to ensure that civic learning opportunities are delivered equitably throughout the country.
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Institute for Global Leadership
IGL provides training and consultation for leaders and teams to adapt to the changed dynamics of a post-9/11 world. They train reconciliation leaders with personal, interpersonal, systemic, and global competencies in business, community, institutional, national, and world environments.
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The Alternatives To Violence Project-USA
AVP-USA is an association of community, school and prison-based groups offering experiential workshops in personal growth, community development and creative conflict management.
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National Civic League
The mission of the National Civic League is to advance civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities. We achieve this by inspiring, supporting and recognizing inclusive approaches to community decision-making.
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Divided Community Project
DCP provides dispute resolution and systems-design expertise to help local community and university leaders enhance community resiliency and prepare for and respond to events that polarize their communities.
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Parents of the Field: Betty Reardon
Betty Reardon was one of the founding parents of the conflict resolution field. We were saddened to learn of her passing this week, and wanted to share this video that is making the rounds of our email feeds. Hats off to Betty!