Colleague Activities
We are always looking for people doing interesting, intractable conflict-related projects to feature on our Colleague Activities Blog. See the Blog Homepage for information on how to submit your work.
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Toda Peace Institute's Global Outlook: March 2024
This issue has articles on the Korean Peninsula, New Zealand's landmark decision on climate, COP 28, and the most worrying international conflicts.
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3 Ways to Make Conflict Less Destructive
From Bill Ury, one of the biggest names in the conflict resolution field, his thoughts on things we can do to escape spirals of destructive conflict.
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Do you keep your agreements?
Anne Leslie explains why keeping our agreements, no matter how small, has important ramifications for our relationships, demonstrating respect and trustworthiness that are hard to replace once broken.
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Peacebuilding Starts at Home
A new Alliance for Peacebuilding initiative intended to educate and raise awareness about the drivers of instability and conflict in the U.S. and responses to that.
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Women's Power Collaborative
The only national-level body dedicated to achieving a gender-balanced democracy by networking, strategizing, resource-sharing and helping women run for office.
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National Endowment for Democracy
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.
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Resolutionaries
Resolutionaries is an organization dedicated to bringing Americans together. Our goal is to shift the current paradigm — from fighting over our problems to working together to solve them.
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CSU Center for Public Deliberation
Our aim is to improve the way our community is able to talk through complex issues so that we can arrive at better decisions. CPD provides the space, good information, and skilled facilitation to facilitate such collaborative decision making in Northern Colorado and beyond.
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Democracy 2076
Democracy 2076 is developing a vision for a new U.S. constitution which would ensure an effective, responsive, and representative democracy.
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When Transitional Justice Met Narrative Change Theory
An exploration of the similarities and differences between these two fields, and how, if combined, they can bring out the best of both for more meaningful change.
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How Can We Effectively Use Evidence in Peacebuilding Project Design? | ConnexUs Thursday Talk Recording
This webinar shared findings from research examining the role of evidence in shaping & improving peacebuilding initiatives, and USIP shared what they are doing to integrate the findings into their own programming.
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Overcoming digital threats to democracy
A report outlining the ways in which the tools of deliberative democracy could be used to better govern information technologies and help protect the larger society.
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Contact Theory with No Contact: Facilitating Dialogue Online
An examination of the degree to which online dialogue can overcome impressions of difference without in-person contact.
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Our divided nation will fall unless we return to American pragmatism
Our country is disturbingly polarized, and the future of our republic is at stake if we don’t change course ... and soon. This long-time civil servant observes that we are our own worst enemy.
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Equal opportunity rage farming
Stretching the truth to arouse ire isn't just a tactic of the right; the left does it too. This short article appears toward the end of Better Conflict Bulletin's Feb. 22, 2024 Newsletter.
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Learnings and Insights from Stepping Into Systems
Introduction to a film series which invites viewers to get started on their systems-learning journey, covering fundamental systems change topics amd (re)awakeing a felt sense of knowing the world as systemic.
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How political contempt helps blow up deals and amplifies gridlock
If we think our “enemies” like something, we’ll be predisposed to not like it. And we disincentivize red/blue collaboration because we don't want to "help" our enemies. So we get gridlock.
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Ten Take-Aways on Russia’s War and Five Ideas for the Future of Ukraine and Beyond
To end suffering and destruction, it is necessary to think about pathways to peace. Here are the ten key results of the war and five ideas for a possible way out.
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Beliefs and Mindsets
Beliefs are called mindsets when they filter how we make sense of the world and ourselves. Mindsets act on our choice of goals and goal-pursuit behaviors, which significantly affect our lives.
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Toxic polarization fractures our relationships — even with our political peers
The contempt arising from toxic polarization makes us less able to do the basic work of politics. There is an urgent need to see value in engaging in civil, respectful ways, even with people we see as wrong.
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Search for Common Ground & United Nations Announce an Innovative Partnership for Humanitarian Diplomacy
This partnership will enable the UN and Search to save lives and address the conflict drivers that create crises in the first place. The hope is this partnership will serve as a model for other such efforts.
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The Plurality Institute
The Plurality Institute is building an ecosystem to push boundaries to reimagine collaborative frameworks. They serve as a hub for academics, industry researchers, practitioners, and leaders from both civil and governmental sectors
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Women Wage Peace
Another organization to add to Louis Kriesberg's list of the Israeli peace groups that are trying to struggle with the ongoing war.
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Evolving Strategy in Complexity
For organiations which are overwhelmed, over-processing, and still need a plan to win, 11 ideas of how to develop an approach that makes sense.
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What's the end game of a New Way in our politics?
Our task is to find and grow a new generation and community of leaders who seek the most good for the most people in the most expansive and gracious ways we can imagine.