Beyond Intractability in Context Blog
Beyond Intractability's efforts to promote more constructive approaches to conflict occur within the larger context of efforts to promote wise and equitable solutions to a broad range of social problems. This blog highlights readable news and opinion articles, "infographics" and reports that help us understand the costs--and hence, urgency -- of the conflict problem, the dynamics that make it so difficult, alternative responses, and innovative success stories about people who have successfully confronted various aspects of the problem in different settings.
BI in Context posts are being included in the
Constructive Conflict MOOS Seminar's
exploration of the tough challenges posed by the
Constructive Conflict Initiative.
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- A provocative exploration of why some people refuse to to become collaborators with authoritarian regimes and why others do not. #mbi_context -- History Will Judge the Complicit
- We ought remember that intensifying racial tensions was a deliberate goal of Russian trolls and listen to reports that they are trying to do it again. #mbi_context -- The Mueller indictment offers new details on how Russian trolls stoked racial tensions
- For a time when we are starting to wonder whether the lockdown was worth it, a stunning visualization of the extraordinary threat posed by COVID-19. #mbi_context -- Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19
- Further evidence that provocateurs are engaged in a major effort to amplify our differences and drive us further apart. #mbi_context -- Nearly half of 'reopen America' Twitter accounts are bots: Report
- A self-critical exploration of the role that the media has played in fostering our destructive polarization and what it could have done differently. #mbi_context -- Trump has played the media like a puppet. We’re getting better — but history will not judge us kindly.
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