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Constructive Conflict Guide > Civic Knowledge and Skills That We Can Use to Help Ourselves and Our Society More Constructively Handle Intractable Conflict > Stripping Away "Overlay" Problems That Make Conflicts Appear More Intractable Than They Really Are > Limiting Communication Problems and the Resulting Misunderstandings
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BI Article
Persuasion
Persuasion is the ability to change people's attitudes largely through the skillful use of language. Martin Luther King's letter from a Birmingham Jail is a classic example of persuasion.
BI Article
Overcoming Oppression Through Persuasion
This essay examines how low power groups can appeal to the oppressive group's moral values, self interests, and self realization to convince them to change their relationship with the other group(s).
BI Article
Finding Common Ground / Constructive Addressing Differences: a Discussion Guide
An exercise to help people find common ground where none seems to exist and constructively address remaining differences.
Colleague Activities
Narrative Engagement Across Difference (NEAD) Project
The Horizons Project is joining forces with funders, researchers, and movement leaders to develop narrative competencies that can be used to strengthen democracies and combat rising authoritarianism.
Colleague Activities
The Unify America Challenge: A Worthwhile Tool for Deliberative Pedagogy
A description of a new tool to help colleage students engage in constructive discourse. The tool promotes communication skills, encourages students to listen to diverse voices, and underscores the shared values that transcend divisive political issues.
News and Opinion
When did we give up on persuasion?
An eloquent defense of the neglected art of persuasion -- the most sustainable way of achieving positive social change.
News and Opinion
Inside a stealth 'persuasion machine' promising Republican victories in 2022
News and Opinion
Pastries and Persuasion: How a Global Tax Deal Got Done
A story about a successful negotiation effort that is taking a major step toward limiting the tax shelters that the global kleptocracy finds so valuable.
News and Opinion
3 tips on how to argue --- and find common ground --- from a debate champion.
Solid advice on how to transform either/or debates into a search for common ground.