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Truth

Colleague Activities
Truth and Falsity
Cloke shows how to surpass 'tis-'taint arguments about facts to get down to effective, collaborative problem solving.

BI Article
Reconciliation "Pieces" - Parts 2, 3 and 4: Truth, Mercy, and Peace
Progress toward reconciling today's deeply divided democracies requires the balanced and simultaneous pursuit of peace, justice, truth, and mercy.

News and Opinion
The four kinds of truth America needs to pursue reconciliation
An older article offering still valuable insights for those trying to figure out how it might be possible to reconcile the United States' deeply divided society.

BI Article
Truth Commissions
Truth commissions are official groups endowed with the authority to extensively investigate the human rights abuses and war crimes committed in a specific country or region during a specified time period.

News and Opinion
The Scaffolding of Truth
A review of an important new book that can help us resolve our disputes on the basis of true facts (not facts as we would like them to be).

News and Opinion
The New Truth -- When the moral imperative trumps the rational evidence, there's no arguing
A provocative essay exploring the conflict over whether the truth is an end in itself or whether it must be adjusted to meet some higher purpose.

News and Opinion
The Invention of Objectivity
For a world in which the search for objective truth is critically important and a focal point for conflict, thoughtful reflections on the origins of the concept.

News and Opinion
Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore
An important exploration of the nature of truth (and knowable truth) in the contemporary Internet era.

News and Opinion
How to Tackle Truth Decay
Thoughts about what to do about a world in which sources of objective truth have almost completely disappeared.

News and Opinion
Why do people believe true things? Ignorance and misperceptions are not puzzling. The challenge is to explain why some people see reality accurately.
A look at the complex psychology underlying the ability to distinguish truth from often more comforting falsehoods.

News and Opinion
Matti Friedman: When We Started to Lie
A look at how journalism evolved from a field devoted to truth telling to a field focused on supporting the "right way of looking at the world."