Featured BI Posts
- Coexistence -- Coexistence offers a promising alternative to today's all-out struggle for dominance among competing socio-cultural groups.
- Cross-Cultural Communication -- Culture influences everything we see, say, and do. When our cultures differ, misunderstanding is bound to result unless we are aware of--and respond to--these challenges in effective ways.
- Reclaiming Space in Charlottesville, VA: A Black Feminist Endeavor – Case Study -- A case study of how the Black female mayor of Charlottesville, VA has sought to transform the racial conflict stemming from the August 2017 white supremacy march.
- Summary 2 of The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace --
- Finding Peace with America’s Great “Other”: Reconciliation in the age of Mass Incarceration -- The prison system fails all that fall into it. Restorative alternatives—implemented before, during, or after prison can bring benefits to victims, families, and offenders alike.
- Moral or Value Conflicts -- Moral and value conflicts often become intractable, as neither side is willing to compromise their deeply-held beliefs.
- Communication Tools for Understanding Cultural Differences -- Edward T. Hall writes that for us to understand each other may mean, "reorganizing [our] thinking...and few people are willing to risk such a radical move." This essay offers strategies for doing just that.
- The Three R’s: Religion, Relationships, and Reconciliation: A Case Study of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in America -- The LDS Church used to be shunned in the U.S. Then a member almost was elected President. How did that become possible?
- Culture and Conflict -- People from different cultures often have such radically different worldviews that what seems like common sense to one side, is anything but sensible to the other. Different cultures and worldviews can lead to completely different understandings or frames of a conflict, making resolution a challenge.
- The Scale-Up Problem -- To be effective at the societal level, traditional "table-oriented" processes must be scaled up to societal size.
- Identity Issues -- Identity drives many intractable conflicts as people simplify complex situations into an "us-versus them" story.
- Principles of Justice and Fairness -- Like, beauty, "justice" is "in they eye of the beholder. " Or is it not? Can it be objectively measured?
- Delegitimization -- Delegitimization drives escalation and violence—but how is it reversed?
- Laura Chasin -- An interview with one of the founders of Essential Partners (formerly Public Conversations Project) about how they started and what they do.
- Justice and Civil Rights for the LGBTQ Community: Has America reached a post-conflict state? -- A new case study of the process and status of reconciliation between the mainstream heterosexual population and the LGBTQ community in the United States.
