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Conflict Transformation
Many people believe that conflict happens for a reason and that it brings much-needed change. Therefore, to eliminate conflict would also be to eliminate conflict's dynamic power. In transformation, a conflict is changed into something constructive, rather being eliminated altogether.
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Every Problem Creates an Opportunity to Develop Something New and Better
A retrospective look at the long and hopeful history of the conflict resolution and peacebuilding fields -- a history punctuated by a long series of societal crises and, ultimately, constructive responses to those crises.
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Shannon Kupersmith: We are at a complicated intersection with lots of roads. What if we use this opportunity to move forward in a better direction?
A reflection on what we might like the U.S. to look like 30 years hence, and how we might use the current disarray to actually get there (or get closer) to there.
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Identifying Leverage Points and Opportunities
Conflict maps can help identify what aspects of a conflict system might be changeable, and which not. Then one can figure out what the leverage points for change are likely to be, and identify ways in which those leverage points could be accessed and affected.
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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.
Colleague Activities
Modernizing Congress is a national security imperative
A hopeful story describing how we could take advantage of what, I hope, is an upcoming opportunity---to reform Congress so it really works.
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Citizen Solutions: America's Hidden Opportunity Revealed.
Starts With Us' inititiave to empower Americans to overcome our misperceptions and co-create solutions to shared challenges. This article shows how badly we misjudge "the other" on many dimensions.
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Finding Opportunity in Closing Civil Spaces
At the 9th International Conference on Shrinking Civic Space in Asia, hosted by Asia Center in Bangkok, Counterpart conducted a session on strategies for civil society organizations to use in constricted civic spaces.
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With the Peacebuilding Field Under Attack, Risks Abound -- But Also Opportunities
Decreasing budgets for peacebuilding across the Global North are forcing a rethinking of the field. Experts say that the dramatic cuts present significant risks, but also offer a window of opportunity for the field to become more efficient and sustainable.
News and Opinion
We Interrupt This Gloom to Offer ... Hope
Amid the despair, a rapidly approaching opportunity to fix things. Time to build a coalition capable of making & sustaining the needed reforms.
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Our divided times are an opportunity for empathy. Really.
If ever there was a time to replace inaccurate, evil stereotypes with genuine understanding and compassion, this is it.
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This Is When the Fever Breaks
We now have an opportunity to turn away from our divisive politics and remember that we will all be better off if we find a way to work together.
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Americans' Rage at Health Insurance Companies Is an Opportunity
An example of the benefits of looking at problems and crises as opportunities to actually make things better.
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Leftists should relish Trump's revolutionThe end of neoliberalism brings opportunity