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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 > Overcoming Hyper-Polarization, Escalation, and the Forces of Disintegration
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Confidence-Building Measures
Limiting or reducing the level of fear among parties in conflict is essential for building confidence and a sense of security. Confidence-building measures aim to lessen anxiety and suspicion by making the parties' behavior more predictable.
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Promoting De-Escalation -- Part 1: Conciliatory Gestures
Conciliatory gestures are a way to break down stereotypes and start de-escalating conflicts with surprise overtures of kindness.
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De-escalating Gestures
A de-escalating gesture could be an act of kindness or an attempt to compromise. Although risky and difficult to pull-off, these gestures are necessary for de-escalating a conflict.
Colleague Activities
Military Confidence-Building Measures
Colleague Activities
Confidence building in the arms control process : a transformation view
Colleague Activities
The Case for Confidence in America
A hopeful conversation with Adam Mizel — and a simple way you can help unite America on December 13th.
News and Opinion
It's not just Biden -- Incumbents everywhere are unpopular and losing elections.
It is about more than Trump vs. Biden, the public Is losing confidence in a large fraction of its political leaders.
News and Opinion
The Self-Doubting Superpower
A look at the global implications of the United States' collapse of confidence in its own system.
News and Opinion
The twilight of liberal credentialism
More food for thought as we struggle to understand the full implications of the public's lost confidence in society's educated, meritocratic, elites.