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Constructive Communicators

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Bubble Bursters
Bubble Busters help people see beyond the self-righteous, us-vs-them, good-vs-evil information bubbles in which so many of us now live.

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Communication Skill Builders
Communication Skill Builders focus on teaching people the skills that they need to communicate more effectively with their fellow citizens and, especially, help facilitate communication between people with differing views.

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Bridge Builders
Bridge Builders facilitate direct human connections that cross political divides and dispel inaccurate and inflammatory stereotypes. 

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Storytellers
Storytellers can help people gain insight into other people's lives, perspectives, emotions, and experiences. They can help build empathy and understanding across lines of conflict.

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Mass Communicators
Mass Communicators are journalists, artists, and opinion leaders who scale up bridge building activities in ways that reach vastly larger numbers of people

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Free Speech Advocates
Free Speech Advocates defend the free flow of information between people with different perspectives and different sources of information.

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Convener / Facilitator
Conveners and facilitators bring people with differing views together and help them engage in the kind of constructive exchanges that lead to learning and in some cases, collaborative decision making.

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Disinformation Fighters
Disinformation Fighters reduce the influence of deliberately deceptive and malicious disinformation and propaganda campaigns designed to inflame tensions while, at the same time, promoting the exchange of reliable information.

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Media Reformers
Media Reformers focus on improving the many different types of communication media in ways that will better promote civic life (at both local and national level) while resisting pressures to feature demonizing and divisive content. 

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Conflict Educators / Trainers
Conflict Educators and Trainers help speed the flow of information on more constructive ways of handling conflict that show people that there are better ways of preventing and solving conflict than fighting (sometimes violently) about it

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Communication Failures
Communication often breaks down in conflict. Sometimes it gets cut off altogether. Other times people use hostile language that just makes the conflict worse. Or the disputants' background information and worldviews are so different that they think the other side is "evil," or "stupid," or "crazy," even though they have good reason to think as they do, given the information that they are basing their attitudes and actions on.

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Bridge Builders
Bridge Builders facilitate direct human connections that cross political divides and dispel inaccurate and inflammatory stereotypes. 

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Overcoming Communication Problems
Communication problems are a common overlay factor. Fortunately, there are many ways to remedy these problems as well.

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Communication Skill Builders
Communication Skill Builders focus on teaching people the skills that they need to communicate more effectively with their fellow citizens and, especially, help facilitate communication between people with differing views.

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