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BI Article
Reprise: Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective
A reprise of an old newsletter on constructive ways of engaging in conflict that is less likely to create backlash and more likely to achieve one's goals than typical adversarial approaches are likely to do.
BI Article
Reprise: Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power
Power takes three forms that can be mixed and matched: coercion, exchange, and integration. The "recipe" for the optimal "power strategy mix" changes depending on whom you are trying to influence.
BI Article
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.
BI Article
Constructive Confrontation: The Key to Making the Grand democratic Bargain Work
Constructive confrontation takes the lessons from conflict resolution and peacebuilding and applies them to advocacy. The result is a strategy that is less likely to provoke backlash, and hence is more likely to succeed.
Colleague Activities
In This Together
A campaign to help save the environment and repair our democracy by growing a diverse bipartisan community of America's silenced majority: common sense problem-solvers willing to overcome fear, anger, and division.
Colleague Activities
True or False? Political Passion Is at Odds with Depolarization
One can work toward any political goal while trying to reduce toxic polarization. In fact, taking less polarizing approaches can aid one's political activism.
Colleague Activities
Frontiers MOOS Seminar Topic Area: Constructive Confrontation
A BI smeinar with links to articles and materials to help users engage in conflict constructively, avoiding escalation and other destructive dynamics.
News and Opinion
We keep moving from one wrong fight to another. Here's how to stop.
Thoughtful insights into our tendency to move from one us-vs-them confrontation to another while simultaneously avoiding serious efforts to work through and learn from our differences.
News and Opinion
Radical Moderation
An overview of an important new book, "Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals" that challenges the widespread disdain for compromise that one now finds on both the left and the right.
News and Opinion
Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism
FAIR, is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity.