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About the Massively Parallel Roles

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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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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).