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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- An exceptionally good explanation of how social networking systems are dominating and warping our view of the world and driving us even further apart. -- We Are All Algorithms Now
- More data on just how politically segregated we have become. Increasingly, all we know about the other side is filtered through inflammatory media. -- Three-quarters of Americans know only a few people who support the candidate they themselves oppose
- It must be true, we now have data, that shows that all of our troubles have made us less happy. -- Trump has made Americans’ lives worse. Here’s the proof.
- An academic look at another reason why combating racism is so difficult--legal and political difficulties in defining membership boundaries. -- Is there a legal right to free choice of ethno-racial identity?
- An in-depth look at the way in which climate change is impacting the Western US. We have to fix our politics so we can deal with problems like this. #mbi_context -- Extreme heat is here, and it’s deadly
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