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Constructive Conflict Guide > Civic Knowledge and Skills That We Can Use to Help Ourselves and Our Society More Constructively Handle Intractable Conflict > Constructively Handling Disputes That Can't Be Resolved with Mutually Acceptable Agreements
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Establishing Electoral Integrity
Trusted elections are key to stable democracies. programs are needed to help assure that all eligible voters are allowed to vote and that their votes will be accurately counted. This requires, for example, trustworthy mechanisms for preventing election fraud.
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Establishing Fair and Effective Legislative Processes
Programs are needed to assure that legislatures are able to function widely and effectively without being coopted by the executive branch, or becoming so stalemated that they can't perform their required functions.
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Assuring Fair and Effective Administrative Processes
At the federal state and local level, executive branches of government are responsible for faithfully executing the laws and assuring the effective day-to-day functioning of government. To function successfully this requires input from and oversight by citizens and interest groups.
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Assuring Fair and Effective Law Enforcement
Efforts to assure that law enforcement officers faithfully protect and serve the citizenry require a complex array of programs designed to provide effective oversight while also building positive police/community relationships.
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Assuring Legitimate Judicial Processes
For the judiciary to fulfill its responsibilities in the democratic system of checks and balances, the public needs to understand the judiciary's role -- ensuring the integrity of the laws (but not making law).
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Assuring The Military's Apolitical Focus on National Defense
It is imperative that the military maintains its professional focus on national defense and does not become involved in or a party to domestic political disputes.
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The Importance of the Rule of Law, Checks and Balances
Rule of law and checks and balances are key elements of liberal democracy. Rule of law means that laws apply to everyone and procedures and policies should follow those laws. Checks and balances mean that the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) are independent of each other and provide checks on the over reach of the others.
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Dispute Resolution Procedural Problems
One type of "conflict overlay" are procedural problems--problems of fairness, transparency, predictability, and other procedural missteps.
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Principles of Justice
An examination of the many different meanings of justice: distributive, procedural, retributive, and restorative among others.
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Procedural Justice
Procedural justice describes approaches that define justice not by a fair outcome but by a fair process.
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Distributive Justice
When people believe that their situation is not equal to that of other people like them, they feel a sense of injustice. Distributive justice is the attempt to create a fair and equal division of society's wealth and status.
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How Diverse Should Viewpoint Diversity Be?
A look at the tough challenges associated with building a free society that fairly and wisely accommodates a diverse array of cultures, values, and perceptions of objective truth.
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Why America Doesn't Build
Even green-energy projects get quashed by local "NIMBY" opposition.
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Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy?
A review and summary of an important new book highlighting Rawl's vision for a society in which we would all like to live -- one that is both fair and free.
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California Takes a Big Step Toward Fair College Admissions
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DEI Is on Its Way Out. We Still Need Fair Employment Protections.
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Merit, Fairness, and Equality