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Peacemakers: Harvard's negotiation scholars prepare to touch the third rail of Israeli politics.
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Business As Usual-2: Boys Will Be Boys
Conflict is inevitable. But war and the destructiveness of conflict is not. We explore self-destructive attitudes here.
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Helena Desivilya Syna on The Paradox of Tolerance with a response from Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess
Israel presents a dilemma for conflict resolvers: should one seek dialogue and compromise, or should one advocate and work for total victory without compromise because one side is so extreme?
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Peace Needs Compromise in Afghanistan; It Won't Come in the Form of Surrender
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Lack of Support for Compromise-based Solutions
In our hyper-polarized political environment, compromise is seen as "selling out" ones' own side. So it is seldom even considered as a plausible approach to problem solving.
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Disenfranchising Moderates, Denouncing Compromise
Bad-faith actors insist that their views are the only correct views and opposing views are completely wrong. So they denounce moderates who can see value in both sides as sell-outs or traitors, and denounce compromise as unacceptable submission.
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Cultivating Compromise
Within almost all disputes there are mutually beneficial ways of resolving the issues (at least as compared to alternatives) . The key is learning how to identify and take advantage of this "zone of possible agreement."
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Opposing Efforts to Disenfranchise Those Who Favor Moderate, Compromise-Oriented Governance
This section focuses on the many ways in which democracies tend to disenfranchise those with centrist political beliefs and shares strategies for overcoming this problem.
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You Want Us to Compromise With Those Extremists?": A Common Objection to This Work
It's sometimes assumed that depolarization movements value unity above everything else, and they just want "everyone to get along" or compromise, no matter how unreasonable one position may be. That's simply not true.
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We can improve health care. It just takes compromise.
An example of what a realistic, bipartisan compromise might look like in the highly contentious field of healthcare.
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Uniters are seen as wishy-washy and spineless. Nothing could be further from the truth.
An eloquent rebuttal to those who think that compromisers lack the courage and ability to stand up for what's right.
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The Case For (Even More) Compromise
A story about what has been gained through compromise and what our stubborn unwillingness to compromise further is costing us.
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The Case For (Even More) Compromise
A story about what has been gained through compromise and what our stubborn unwillingness to compromise further is costing us.
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The Case for Palestinian Pragmatism
A thoughtful Palestinian perspective on the plight of his people, the terrible cost of refusing to consider compromise, and hopes for a better future.
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Win, Lose, but No Compromise
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Americans used to compromise all the time