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.
There are three ways to participate in this blog:
- Visiting: You can simply drop into the blog here, reading as your interest and time allows.
- Following on Social Media: We are posting all the the BI in Context Blog posts, along with the Core Seminar (Frontiers and Fundamentals) Blog Posts on the Beyond Intractability pages on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Information about how to subscribe to those is found on our participation page.
- Subscribe to the BI Newsletter: BI sends out a newsletter about once every two weeks which lists the last two weeks' posts for the BI in Context Blog, along with the two core seminars.
More About How to Participate in the MBI Seminars and Blogs ...
- China has a 21st-century version of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Not surprisingly, it's an app. -- The Hottest App in China Teaches Citizens About Their Leader — and, Yes, There’s a Test
- A look at the limits of complicated, but rational economic models and the need to deal with a more complex, nonrational reality. -- The End of Economics?
- A terrific multimedia look at Kashgar and China's emerging vision of high-technology authoritarianism. -- How China Turned a City into a Prison
- It's hard to persuade people to work together if they don't have an attractive vision of what they are working toward. -- Imagining a climate-change future, without the dystopia, National Academy of Sciences
- Another window into the incredible complexity of the human mind and how far we are from understanding it. -- Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
We welcome your suggestions of articles and other materials that we should post in this blog. If they are things written by yourself, though, please also consider contributing them to the "Colleague Activities Blog"
