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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Values-Based Conversations
We assume our "friends" share our values while "others" don't. That often is not the case.
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Chip Hauss: Going to Scale
How peacebuilders can work with others to "scale up" their efforts to grapple with the many wicked problems currently facing humanity.
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The Power of the Powerless
As struggle with the 21st century threat of authoritarianism, it's worth reflecting on what Havel taught us about bringing power to the powerless. #mbi_colleague
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Collective Imaginaries for the World after Corona: Children and Youth's Imaginaries
COVID-19's impact on youths' lives are substantial, but little discussed. This study seeks to collect youth's images of the present and future.
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Dr Ivana Milojević: Minimizing Conflicts Amidst the Covi-19 Pandemic
Information, resources, relationships, structures, and values cause conflict admist COVID19. But these conflicts are also opportunities.
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Glenda Eoyang: Crush the Arrogance of Certainty
We all want certainty and control. But it doesn't exist, and pretending it does is harming everyone.
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Complicating the Narratives: How we’re moving this work forward
A look at an effort to replace simplistic us-vs-them narratives with the kind of complicated understanding that leads to real problem-solving. #mbi_colleague
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Facing the Pandemic with a Peacebuilding Stance
This is our opportunity to heal much more than those who catch COVID---we can start to heal the earth and our societies too. #mbi_colleague
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Matt Legge: COVID-19 and Responses to Uncertainty
An article explaining how uncertainty molds our response to the pandemic and other social challenges--and what should be done about it.
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Democracy and Information During a Pandemic
An interesting effort that could doubtless be expanded---systematically assembling stories that highlight pandemic success stories. #mbi_colleague
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Mark Chupp - An Exponential Rise of Trust and Goodness
Yes, COVID-19 is growing exponentially. But so, too, is goodness and trust, which can be harnessed to counter the virus. #mbi_colleague
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The Call to Unite
This is a broadly based and truly impressive effort to bring us together to address the many different aspects of the pandemic crisis. #mbi_colleague
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States Reopening
The Flip Side is an interesting effort to highlight reasonable arguments being offered on the left and the right. This issue looks at "reopening." #mbi_context
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Digital peacebuilding and the pandemic (part 1: why it matters)
Food for thought for peacebuilders struggling to adapt their efforts to defuse today's us-vs-them conflicts to the new, social distance environment. #mbi_colleague
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Mark Chupp - An Exponential Rise of Trust and Goodness
Yes, Covid-19 is growing exponentially. But so, too, is goodness and trust, which can be harnessed to counter Covid.
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Chip Hauss: Shifting from "Me First" to "We First" and Other "Takes" on the Coronavirus
Three blogs on how peacebuilders might approach their work in the era of COVID-19,
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John Lande on the Crisis-New-Normal (CNN) and the Normal-New-Normal (NNN)
"Normal" after the pandemic subsides is not going to be the "normal" we knew before. What will it look like?
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Louis Kriesberg: On Taking Action
Fight despair by taking action--doing something relevant to you to address our personal and collective predicament.
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A Different Kind of Civil-Service Nonprofit
An inspiring story about FUSE, an effort to match volunteer, mid-career professionals with local governments in need of need their skills. #mbi_colleague
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Shannon Kupersmith: We are at a complicated intersection with lots of roads. What if we use this opportunity to move forward in a better dir
Life as we knew it in 2019 is gone. The world is changing, so what if we use this opportunity to move forward in a better direction?
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Alan Yarborough/Steven Paulikas: Another Reflection on the Choice Ahead of Us
"Let us not lose our memory once all this is past, let us not file it away and go back to where we were." (Pope Francis)
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John Paul Lederach: We Need Moral Imagination to Respond to Covid-19.
We must respond to this pandemic by strengthening relationships, using curiosity and creativity, and taking risks to make things better.
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Dharma Talk at Upaya Zen Center with John Paul Lederach
In one of the new, Coronavirus-era Zoom lectures, John Paul Lederach applies his theory of the Moral Imagination to COVID-19. #mbi_colleague
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Nonviolent Conflict News
A excellent window into the world of nonviolent protest movements that, somehow, seldom seem to make it into the mainstream, "respectable" media. #mbi_context
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Civity Blog -- Bridging Divides to Strengthen Communities
Looking for ideas on how, in the midst of the pandemic, to help people to create authentic, empathetic, and meaningful relationships with people who differ from themselves?
