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Executive Summary: Applying Conflict Resolution Insights to Today's Hyper-Polarized Societies
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Mark Gerzon and Mesa Sebree -- Towards a Polycrisis Consciousness - Part 2
To address the polycrisis, it is necessary to "focus on part of the polycrisis but with an awareness of the whole." Among Gerzon and Sebree's several insightful suggestions: forget optimism and pessimism, focusing instead on "possibility."
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Responses to: Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns? - Part 1
A discussion with David Eisner and Bernie Mayer of how bridging efforts relate to other efforts to strengthen American democracy in what David refers to as the "renew-democracy ecosystem."
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Responses to Fiddling While Rome Burns - Part 2
The Burgesses respond to Bernie Mayer's comments on "Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns," arguing that bridging and advocacy are both needed for change, along with other elements in David Eisner's "renewing democracy ecosystem."
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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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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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Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 1
The first of a five-part series outlining our latest thinking on massively parallel democracy building. This installment briefly introduces the core argument about what the threats to democracy are, and what is needed to meet them.
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Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 2
In this 2nd (of 5) installments of the Burgess's Toda Policy Brief on Massively Parallel Democracy Building, we look at some of the threats facing democracy in the United States, and where they could lead if they aren't addressed soon.
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Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 3
The resilience of American democracy is based on three factors: an abundant array of tools for resisting those who threaten democratic institutions, a willingness to use those tools, and the creativity needed to develop new responses to new challenges.
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Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 4
This 4th (of 5) installments of the Burgess's Toda Policy Brief on Massively Parallel Democracy Building lays out seven essential goals, all of which contribute to developing a "power-with democracy" to replace "power-over" approaches.
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Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 5
This final installment of the Burgess's Toda Policy Brief on Massively Parallel Democracy Building describes 53 different roles which all need to be filled simultaneously for democracy strengthening efforts to succeed. And everyone fits somewhere!
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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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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.