BI ArticleIdentify--and Scale Up--Your Areas of Influence
A first step toward effective action is figuring out what you can do that will have maximum possible impact.
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Identify--and Scale Up--Your Areas of Influence
A first step toward effective action is figuring out what you can do that will have maximum possible impact.
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Small Scale Reconciliation -- Part 5: Take Advantage of Opportunities for Mutually-Beneficial Joint Actions
This is the last of five videos on small-scale, bottom up reconciliation. Here we discuss negotiating in the context of intractability.
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Jayne Docherty talks about the Red/Blue Divide She Lives in Everyday
A preview of a compelling story about a liberal professor finding commonality with her conservative neighbors, and what that could mean for the rest of us in the U.S.
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Kristin Hansen talks about the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America
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Pursue the Opportunities Created by All Conflict Problems
All problems create opportunities for the people who can solve them. So instead of seeing problems as insoluble, if we try to figure out how to solve them, even if we fail, we are likely to make things somewhat better.
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Intractable Conflict Threat and Opportunity
An overview of both the positive role that intense conflict can play in promoting social learning and the ways in which such conflicts can undermine societal problem solving and democratic institutions while increasing intergroup hatred and strife.
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3 Collaborative Practices for Advancing Social Impact
Know what you're good at and what your partners can do better, find the most powerful leverage point, and allow for failure and learn from it and the three practices highlighted here.
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How The Current uses community listening and solutions journalism to make an impact in Louisiana.
A video showing how one community uses solutions journalism to hold local government accountable and to explore opportunities for mutually beneficial problem-solving.
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Constellation Model of Governance
A complexity-inspired framework designed to 'hold' collaborations within dynamic systems by balancing chaos and order, energy and structure.