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This page has not yet been written, though the "more information" link to the right works and provides access to a vast array of information on many aspects of making politics work.

Our intent with this page (and subsidiary pages) is to support scholars and practitioners who seek to advance understanding of governance-related problems and develop and test new approaches for improving governance. The portal will provide an overview of current research on political issues, as well as a listing areas in which new research is particularly needed. The portal will also provide information about individuals and institutions that are doing particularly innovative and important work.

We hope that those in the academic and practitioner communities seeking to develop new ideas will find our identification of frontier-of-the-field challenges and research opportunities especially useful. Even more valuable, however, will be the opportunity to participate in the refinement of the Commons’ research agenda, connect with others working in the field, and publish through the Commons. Please send us information about your current research or innovative interventions related to politics, as well as areas that you feel are in need of new research or innovation. We also appreciate information about key people and organizations working in this area. For the moment send these to us with the "contact us" form at the bottom. Soon we will be implementing a full range of participation options that will enable participant engagement with us and each other in a wide variety of ways.

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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucado

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

- J. K. Galbraith

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln