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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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Democratic Citizens
The foundation of any democracy is its grassroots citizenry — people who honestly try to fulfill their responsibilities to one another including, to their political opponents.
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Visionaries
Visionaries help us imagine a unifying vision for a diverse society that maximizes self-determination while promoting joint action to protect the commons.
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De-escalators
De-escalators help us diffuse our escalated and hyperpolarized politics by working to replace anger, hostility, us-vs-them demonization, and, sometimes, violence with a willingness to peacefully and constructively engage with the other side.
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Constructive Communicators
Conflict is driven by the images that we have of one another -- images that derive from often flawed processes of interpersonal and mass communication. Constructive communicators help us overcome the limitations of these processes.
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Issue Analysts
We depend upon issue analysts to help us navigate complexities of modern society in ways that identify workable options for addressing problems and reliably assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each option.
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Collaborative Problem Solvers
The complexities of modern society make it very difficult to negotiate agreements on ways to solve problems that wisely and equitably balance competing interests. Collaborative problem solvers can help us do this.
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Power Balancers
For disputes that cannot be resolved through mutually beneficial agreement, there is a need for people and institutions with the responsibility to make hard, but fair, decisions about who wins and who loses and by how much in each specific case. Power balancers try to implement equitable ways of balancing power in such processes.
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Defenders
Defenders are those who help protect all of the above efforts from selfishly motivated bad-faith actors — those who seek to disrupt the wise and equitable functioning of democratic systems.
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De-escalators
De-escalators help us diffuse our escalated and hyperpolarized politics by working to replace anger, hostility, us-vs-them demonization, and, sometimes, violence with a willingness to peacefully and constructively engage with the other side.