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A window into what we collectively know about more constructive ways of handling the intractable conflicts that threaten both our relationships and our societies.

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A window into what we collectively know about more constructive ways of handling the intractable conflicts that threaten both our relationships and our societies.

Welcome to the New Beyond Intractability
Find out about the recent upgrades to BI including our new Constructive Conflict Guide which organizes BI content around a framework for analyzing and then limiting or solving conflict problems, focusing particularly on hyper-polarization and threats to democracy (from both the left and the right).

Welcome to the New Beyond Intractability
Find out about the recent upgrades to BI including our new Constructive Conflict Guide which organizes BI content around a framework for analyzing and then limiting or solving conflict problems.

7. Massively Parallel Roles & Tasks

Democracy Watchdogs call attention to threats to democratic norms and processes. This includes threats to free and fair elections, legislative and judicial due process, in the U.S. the right of free speech (more protected here than in other democracies), freedom of assembly, and all the other freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights. Democracy Watchdogs also warn about violations of or abrogation of the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances that is supposed to protect against the overreach of any one branch of government above the others. Most often in backsliding or failing democracies, limits on executive power are either ignored, ineffective, or both.

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