Recent Beyond Intractability Posts
Including Hyper-Polarization Posts
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- Coronavirus, Beyond Intractability, and the Constructive Conflict Initiative -- Please help us pool what we collectively know about working together to fight the virus (and resisting the forces of social disintegration). #mbi_cci -- Mar 31
- COVID-19: UN chief calls for global ceasefire to focus on ‘the true fight of our lives’ -- A timely and urgent plea for a global cease-fire. (I'd like to see this extended this to also include nonviolent, but still very destructive, political conflicts.) #mbi_context -- Mar 31
- Let’s make sure this crisis doesn’t go to waste -- From the guy who coined the phrase, "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste," reflections on how we can come out of this stronger and better. #mbi_context -- Mar 30
- Here’s How to Fight Coronavirus Misinformation -- Practical suggestions for defending ourselves and those we care about from inaccurate and deceptive information about the Coronavirus. #mbi_context -- Mar 30
- The Real Pandemic Danger Is Social Collapse -- Fighting the Coronavirus is not enough. We also need to start actively working to protect society's complex web of socioeconomic relationships. #mbi_context -- Mar 23
- The Best-Case Outcome for the Coronavirus, and the Worst -- It's pretty clear what needs to be done. We just have to find creative ways around the obstacles posed by our divided political system. #mbi_context -- Mar 20
- Big news! Fox has decided that the Coronavirus is, indeed, a serious threat. I think we ought to welcome their support and put politics asid -- Thoughtful In critically important reflections on how to prevent Coronavirus stresses from threatening our most important relationships. #mbi_context -- Mar 17
- Senate Republicans must go big and fast in their response to the Coronavirus -- An urgent story about the kind of financial rescue package that is desperately needed by people whose lives are being upended by the crisis. #mbi_context -- Mar 17
- Stop Saying That Everything Is Under Control. It Isn’t. -- Finally, a look at what it's really going to take to control the Coronavirus. The challenge now is to get our divided political system to actually do it. #mbi_context -- Mar 17
- Our Coronavirus response is America at its best. But it’s just beginning. -- Our biggest source of optimism is the fact that lots and lots of people are going to be trying very hard to find creative and effective ways to help. #mbi_context -- Mar 16
- Coronavirus Cost to Businesses and Workers: ‘It Has All Gone to Hell’ -- We can't be so distracted by the health risks posed by the coronavirus that we neglect the critical needs of those whose lives are being upended. #mbi_context -- Mar 16
- On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus -- Big news! Fox has decided that the Coronavirus is, indeed, a serious threat. I think we ought to welcome their support and put politics aside for now. #mbi_context -- Mar 16
- 12 Steps to Tackle the Coronavirus -- We desperately need new, social distancing-based strategies that bring us together rather than drive us apart as we struggle with the Coronavirus. #mbi_context -- Mar 12
- Joe Biden already sounds as if he’s the president -- More than scoring Coronavirus-related political points, the real challenge is to encourage all sides to do the right thing, now (regardless of politics). #mbi_context -- Mar 12
- Guidelines for Conversations that Matter -- From the World Café cute graphic highlighting guidelines for convening conversations that matter in person and online. #mbi_colleague -- Mar 11
- Coronavirus: The Case for Canceling Everything -- The time has clearly come to de-escalate the rhetoric, abandon us-versus-them thinking, and start doing all that we can to protect one another. #mbi_context -- Mar 11
- Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division -- As we try to craft a societywide response to the coronavirus, we need books like this one to help us escape the malevolence of today's politics. #mbi_colleague -- Mar 11
- Intractable Conflict: A "Climate Change-Class" Problem -- For a time when we are rightly worried about the threat posed by climate change, an argument that destructive conflict poses a similar challenge. #mbi_frontiers -- Mar 10
- Kleptocracy Initiative - Hudson Institute -- The Kleptocracy Initiative is an effort to focus thinking on the extreme cases of corruption that are undermining so many societies. #mbi_colleague -- Mar 10
- Connecting to Change the World: Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact -- For those trying to figure out how to mobilize effective large-scale efforts to address social problems, a primer on making networks work. #mbi_colleague -- Mar 10
- The Conspiracies Are Coming From Inside the House -- A really great update on the complex way in which conflict is being amplified by internal and external actors as it swirls through social media. #mbi_context -- Mar 10
- After Impeachment, Trump Has Been Failing His Dictatorship Test -- Semi-good news for those worried that worst case authoritarian scenarios may be coming to the United States. #mbi_context -- Mar 09
- Confront Constructively -- An essay exploring what a more constructive (and more effective) strategy for confronting injustice might look like. #mbi_to_do -- Mar 09
- The Evolutionary Choice: "Power With" or "Power Over" -- When I prepared this 2017 talk on the evolutionary choice between democracy and authoritarianism I was afraid I was overreacting. Not anymore. #mbi_frontiers -- Mar 05
- Vladimir Putin’s virus -- How the Russian president has infected our national trust -- To fight back against Putin's efforts to turn the West against itself, we are going to have to do something paradoxical, find a way to work together. #mbi_context -- Mar 05
