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  1. Jayne Docherty talks about the Red/Blue Divide She Lives in Everyday

    … for years with the eminent economist and peace scholar, Kenneth Boulding.  Kenneth liked to make up memorable one-liners: some he …

  2. The Complex Causes of Social Problems

    … of wealth and power to become increasingly concentrated. Kenneth Boulding liked to quote something he called "Matthew's Law" … Basic Books. New Edition, April, 2001. Guy Burgess "Kenneth Boulding: A Legacy of Ideas." Conflict Research …

  3. Adapting Information Feeds to Support the Great Reframing

    … and economic circumstances. This is a situation in which Kenneth Boulding's first law applies — if it exists, it must be …

  4. Complex vs. Complicated Systems

    … unpredictable. It's unpredictable within limits. The way Kenneth Bolding used to describe it is that you need to be … although it seems awfully daunting. Again, we'll go back to Kenneth Bolding, who we'll quote a lot, and in many ways is … and all of the rules of complexity apply. So what Boulding advocated, and what we're going to spend a fair …

  5. USIP, CRS, and FMCS and Responding to Ashok Panikkar's Question about Hyper-Polarization

    … the conflict and peacebuilding movements (including Elise Boulding who we worked with in graduate school.) We have … The result was a period of great optimism when Kenneth Boulding's vision of " stable peace " seemed to have …

  6. Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 1: De-escalate Destructive Us-versus-Them Confrontations

    … a peace scholar at the University of Colorado,  adopted Kenneth Boulding’s notion of The Three Faces of Power (a title of one of Boulding’s many seminal conflict resolution books) to …

  7. Revisiting the "Fiddling While Rome Burns" Question - Part 1

    … of its citizens. Rather, it inevitably leads to what Kenneth Boulding called "Matthew's Law," drawn from the Biblical …

  8. Carrie Menkel-Meadow: Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Protest

    … us back together as a more cohesive whole [as emphasized by Kenneth Boulding and Paul Wehr in their discussions of the Three … (Newsletter 102) .] Similarly to Ury, Brett, and Goldberg, Boulding and Wehr argue that force should be used rarely and …

  9. Mapping the Continuum between Democracy and Authoritarianism

    … end, you can have the perversion of competition (what Kenneth Boulding used to call the "invisible fist") where you have …

  10. The Purple/Gold Distributional Divide

    … was able to pull down such a huge share of the wealth. Kenneth Boulding has a simpler explanation that still makes a lot of … Insights from the 2016 VOTER Survey Slide 31: Elise Boulding. The Underside of History, Vol. 2. Slide …