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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 1
People engaged in massively parallel peace and democracy building play at least 50 different roles. In Part 1 of this three part series, we explore the roles played by the "strategizers" who help us understand the both nature of the problem and possible responses.
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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 2
The second of three posts explaining the actor roles needed for a massively parallel peacebuilding/democracy building effort to work, which combined with an earlier post on strategy roles, makes up the current MPP role list.
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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 3
Part 3 of a 4 part series examining the many roles played by participants in Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building. This newsletter focuses on those who help us analyze complex problems and develop collaborative solutions.
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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 4
The last in a four-part series of MPP roles looking at those who help balance power so that everyone in society is treated fairly, and those who try to defend democracy from those who would destroy it.
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Roles that Make Democracy Function
From the Better Conflict Bulletin, reflections on Beyond Intractability's Massively Parallel Peacebuilding roles. Thanks to BCB for highlighting these so well!
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Peace is My Day Job
Working for peace can be a primary job. Figure out your passions, your talents, talk with people, and together develop a path to pursue your dreams and make the world a better place at the same time!
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About the Massively Parallel Roles
The effectiveness of the massively parallel approach depends upon a society's ability to recruit, train, and support people working in the full range of conflict roles. Leaving some roles unfilled weakens the entire effort.
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Conflict Strategists
Conflict roles are divided into two big categories, strategists and actors. Strategists use their sophisticated understanding of social dynamics to identify things actors in each community can do to promote constructive, rather than destructive, conflict.
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Conflict Actors
The ideas for strengthening the system developed by conflict strategists are, in turn, implemented in society's many communities by the more numerous conflict actors (people who also often contribute valuable strategic insights).
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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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The Massively Parallel Strategy for Dealing with Scale and Complexity
The massively parallel strategy for dealing with the scale and complexity of societal conflict focuses on cultivating a large array of independent, but mutually supportive, efforts to address different aspects of the conflict simultaneously.