BI ArticlePromote Escalation Awareness
This video shows what escalation is, why it is so damaging, and how to protect yourself from its most destructive consequences.
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Promote Escalation Awareness
This video shows what escalation is, why it is so damaging, and how to protect yourself from its most destructive consequences.
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Rachel Kleinfeld on Why America Isn't About to Have a Civil War
Rachel Kleinfeld discusses strategies for limiting extremism, strengthening American democracy, and containing political violence. She also explains why she mistrusts predictions of "civil war."
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The Most Important Writing Exercise I've Ever Assigned
A simple and really creative writing assignment (or introspective thought experiment) that helps people see across the deepest of our political divides.
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Escalation is the Most Dangerous Force on the Planet. But We Continue to Drive It
Driven by many interacting feedback loops, escalation can get out of control quickly--leading to violence or even worse.
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Reversing or Better Yet, Avoiding, Destructive Escalation
A short, readable summary (with lots of links) to what we collectively know about strategies for controlling destructive escalation. (Part I)
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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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Escalation Educators
Escalation Educators expose the dangers posed by conflict escalation and closely linked hyper-polarization, and help people in all walks of life learn the skills needed to avoid escalation and polarization in the first place, and if it is too late for that, reverse it and start to heal its wounds.
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Listen, Watch, Read, Experience A Better America!
Scores of on-demand videos about ways to bring people together across political divides.
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To Overcome Our Divides, We Must Try to Understand the Other Side's Anger
An important argument for empathetically trying to understand (rather than discount) the anger that others feel toward your community.