Colleague Activities
We are always looking for people doing interesting, intractable conflict-related projects to feature on our Colleague Activities Blog. See the Blog Homepage for information on how to submit your work.
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The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution Blog
A blog seeking to bridge the theory-practice gap around intractable conflicts and their transformation.
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The Chisel
A civic engagement platform designed to help those with opposing views find common ground and reach agreement on facts and solutions to pressing problems.
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Summary of Why We Can’t “Just All Get Along”: Dysfunction in the Polity and Conflict Resolution and What We Might Do About It
Leading ADR scholar shares thoughts on how ADR can be harnessed to increase empathy and diminish polarization.
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Summary of Adding Up To Peace: The Cumulative Impacts of Peace Programming
An investigation of how individual peacebuilding efforts can best work together to pursue "Peace Writ Large."
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Summary of Modernizing Congress: Bringing Democracy into the 21st Century
An article about the shortcomings of Congress's data management--and what to do about it.
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News Deeply
For those who want to move beyond simplistic images of social problems, News Deeply offers tools for more in-depth understanding. #mbi_colleague
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Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Treating people with simple dignity, a powerful antidote to the destructive energy that arises when people are humiliated. #mbi_colleague
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Transformative placemaking: A framework to create connected, vibrant, and inclusive communities
An interesting effort to figure out how, exactly, to create peaceful, prosperous local communities. #mbi_colleague
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Partners Global Together for Democratic Change
Advancing the common good is something that we must do in partnership with one another. Partners Global helps make partnerships work. #mbi_colleague
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Bridge Alliance
An organization of organizations that are actively working to bridge the partisan divide that is undermining democratic institutions. #mbi_colleague
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Network Weaver
One of our Colleague Activities posts highlights Network Weaver's tools for strengthening large-scale complex systems. #mbi_colleague
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Colleague Activities Blog
Our biggest reason for optimism is the existence of a large number of sophisticated, ongoing efforts to address the intractable conflict problem. #mbi_colleague =
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Upcoming Conference on Civic Engagement and Reconciliation
Run by the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation in Tulsa, OK on May 29-31, this conference will explore civic engagement, reconciliation, & the survival of democracy.
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Campaign Nonviolence Has a New Website
A project of Pace Bene Nonviolence Service, Campaign Nonviolence is working for a new culture free from war, racism, poverty and environmental destruction.
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Essential Partners' Debuts a New Higher Education Website
Provides guides, exercises, syllabi and other tools for a "dialogic classroom."
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Brandeis's Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts
This newsletter highlights the work of IMPACT (Imagining Together Platform for Arts, Culture and Conflict Transformation) and issues an invitation for collaboration.
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Nonviolent Cities Project
The Nonviolent Cities Project engages with key activists across the US to create more just and nonviolent cities.
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The Solutions Journalism Network
The Solutions Journalism Network shares 1000s of stories about solutions to problems that actually work!
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AFP's Resource Page on Peacebuilding in the U.S.
Books, articles, videos, podcasts showing how peace can be built in the U.S. as well as abroad.
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Being Validated
Being validated is a basic need--that is getting met less and less. Face-to-face connection can fix that.
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Randy Butler's Peacemaker Podcast
While our world seems to be falling apart, peacebuilders worldwide are working to put the pieces back together.
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World Policy Journal Issue on Megalomania
Megalomania isn’t just a problem of a few bad leaders—it is far more ubiquitous and harmful.
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The Solutions Journalism Network
For a world in which the media seems to talk about nothing but problems and hopelessness, journalists focusing on finding solutions! #mbi_colleague
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Ian Hughes on "Disordered Minds" and the Threat to Democracy
Only strong democracy, says Hughes, can stop dangerous personalities from wrecking havoc on world order and peace.
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The Sustainable Peace Project of AC4: The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity at Columbia University
Introducing the many resources on complexity, conflict, and peace from the Sustainable Peace Project of AC4, Columbia University
