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The Hyper-Polarization Challenge to the Conflict Resolution Field: A Joint BI/CRQ Discussion
BI and the Conflict Resolution Quarterly invite you to participate in an online exploration of what those with conflict and peacebuilding expertise can do to help defend liberal democracies and encourage them live up to their ideals.


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  • Rachel Kleinfeld's "Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy" -- US democracy is failing. Each moment deepens the polarization that makes its problems harder to fix. As Americans, we must start now, at scale, strategically, with a broad, cross-party coalition to save our democracy.
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  • Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power -- Healthy conflict resolution systems rely primary on interest-based negotiations, using rights and power contests much less frequently. US democracy currently does the opposite.

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Constructive Conflict Initiative

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Join Us in calling for a dramatic expansion of efforts to limit the destructiveness of intractable conflict.

 


Things You Can Do to Help Ideas

Practical things we can all do to limit the destructive conflicts threatening our future.

 

 


Conflict Frontiers

A free, open, online seminar exploring new approaches for addressing difficult and intractable conflicts. Major topic areas include:

Scale, Complexity, & Intractability

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Authoritarian Populism

Constructive Confrontation

 


Conflict Fundamentals

An look at to the fundamental building blocks of the peace and conflict field covering both “tractable” and intractable conflict.

 

 

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