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The Key to Revitalizing Liberal Democracy: Think of It As a Conflict Handling System
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Applying conflict resolution insights to the hyper-polarized, society-wide conflicts threatening liberal democracies
A call for those with conflict-related expertise to do more to help society more constructively handle the scale and complexity of today's big conflicts while also more effectively countering the efforts of bad-faith actors who are actively working to inflame and exploit our conflicts.
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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding/Problem Solving
The first of our new shorter format newsletters we finish up our paper on massively parallel peacebuilding and introduce what comes next.
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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 1
People engaged in massively parallel peace and democracy building play at least 50 different roles. In Part 1 of this three part series, we explore the roles played by the "strategizers" who help us understand the both nature of the problem and possible responses.
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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 2
The second of three posts explaining the actor roles needed for a massively parallel peacebuilding/democracy building effort to work, which combined with an earlier post on strategy roles, makes up the current MPP role list.
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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 3
Part 3 of a 4 part series examining the many roles played by participants in Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building. This newsletter focuses on those who help us analyze complex problems and develop collaborative solutions.
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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 4
The last in a four-part series of MPP roles looking at those who help balance power so that everyone in society is treated fairly, and those who try to defend democracy from those who would destroy it.
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Guy and Heidi Burgess's Thoughts on Memorial Day and Louis Kriesberg on Seeing a Way Out of The Gaza War
A reflection on why peacebuilders ought to take Memorial Day much more seriously and Louis Kriesberg's thoughts on how the Gaza war might be ended.
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The Massively Parallel Strategy for Dealing with Scale and Complexity
The massively parallel strategy for dealing with the scale and complexity of societal conflict focuses on cultivating a large array of independent, but mutually supportive, efforts to address different aspects of the conflict simultaneously.
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Challenging Domestic Authoritarian Tendencies
By demonstrating that it is possible to negotiate mutually beneficial ways of resolving difficult disputes, those with conflict expertise can help reduce the appeal of authoritarian, power-over leaders and movements.
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Challenging External Authoritarian Threats
Helping to strengthen national defense and deterrence is a critically important (but sometimes underappreciated) component of efforts to preserve the peace.