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Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S.
An overview statement of Guy and Heidi Burgess's framing of the "democracy problem," what is at risk and how massively parallel processes are the best (and likely the only) way to overcome the many challenges democracies currently face.
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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding: A Strategy for Building a Democracy That Lives Up to Its Ideals
A summary and links to videos outlining the Burgess's latest thinking about massively parallel peacebuilding and democracy building and explaining how it is already taking place on a large scale.
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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Paper
An overview of Massively Parallel Peacebuilding (MPP) which explains how we think it can help us better deal with complex, large-scale, intractable conflict.
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Pursue a Complexity-Oriented Approach
It is not enough to abandon simplistic, us-vs-them thinking. We need to develop and embrace realistic strategies for working at the daunting scale and complexity of modern society.
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Ideas for Addressing Scale and Complexity to Build Upon
The first step toward constructively managing scale and complexity is to recognize that this is a long-standing problem and societies have already developed many effective complexity-oriented techniques that we can build on.
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The Theory Behind the Massively Parallel Approach
This section outlines a series of more specific strategies that might be realistically used to develop and strengthen massively parallel efforts for complexity-oriented problem-solving.
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Massively Parallel Democracy Building Goals
Massively parallel problem-solving efforts focus on a series of shared goals — goals that are an essential part of building a society in which most everyone would like to live.
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Specialized Massively Parallel Roles / Tasks
The massively parallel strategy for more constructively handling society's many conflicts relies upon an extensive system of specialization and the division of labor.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.