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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Network Contagion Research Institute
A very interesting organization that is trying to track the way in which inflammatory ideas are being spread through social networks. #mbi_colleague
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Indisputably
Creative thinking by 9 law school professors focused on the practice of and scholarship about negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
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The Peace Tech Lab
An interesting organization working to improve "the capacity of civil society to utilize social media platforms in their peacebuilding work" #mbi_colleague
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Will COVID-19 Transform the Global World Order?
A conversation with Bruce Jentleson, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University and Wilson Center Global Fellow. #mbi_colleague
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Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford
This lab combines psychology, tech, and business to design practical interventions that increase sustainable, mutually-beneficial social behavior. #mbi_colleague
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The Next New Normals - In General
Exploring how the "normal-new-normal" will compare to our current crisis response, focused particularly on conflict, work, and higher-ed.
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Peace Direct
Working with local communities to stop violence and build sustainable peace. #mbi_colleague
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The Future of Civil Society Organisations
From The International Civil Society Centre, an important report on the future of CSOs during and after the pandemic. #mbi_colleague
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Mapping Responses to Social Media Threats -- Lisa Schirch
A discussion of social media threats to social cohesion, human rights, and democracy, plus creative options for addressing those threats.
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United Nations Security Council Brief on Reconciliation
Alpaslan Özerdem, now the Dean of the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, talks about what reconciliation is and how it is pursued.
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Digital Inclusion for Peace
A platform to help peacebuilders develop the digital tools and knowledge to continue to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Power, Rights, and Interests
Interest-based decision making enables democracy to work to the benefit of all. Power-and rights-based approaches work only for a few—if any.
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International Idea: Supporting Democracy Worldwide
IDEA, the Institute for Democracy and Election Assistance supports efforts to make democracy work worldwide.
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MIT Science Impact Collaborative
MITs website has articles and reports showing how science informs politics and policy, and how the interplay of those three could be done better.
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Meditative, Interest-Based Approaches to Political Conflicts
Our willingness to achieve results at the expense of fairness and interpersonal trust fuels most of our political conflicts and makes them intractable.
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Police Face Backlash Over Virus Rules. Enter ‘Violence Interrupters.’
Amid police/community tensions, an example of how we might promote compliance with stronger measures to control the resurgent COVID threat.
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Digital peacebuilding and the pandemic (part 2: on digital connection and bridge-building)
Learn what is already being done, and what more is needed, to move peacebuilding into the age of pandemic and beyond. #mbi_colleague
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The Centre for Women Peace and Security
A space for scholars, practitioners, activists, policy-makers, and students to develop policies to help women in conflict.
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Connectional Intelligence: Which Type of Connector Are You -- Marshall Goldsmith
Connecting the dots, rather than being one big dot, is the key to getting big things done.
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Online content moderation lessons from outside the US
A review of actions nations other than the U.S. have taken to regulate social media platforms' behavior and liabilities. #mbi_colleague
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Next time someone sends you fake news, share these essential tips
Things we can all do to defend ourselves and our communities from the epidemic of fake news that is making solving our many problems impossible. #mbi_colleague
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The Center for Dispute Resolution Mediation Training Manual by Kenneth Cloke
Want to learn how to mediate? This training manual was written by one of the best mediators in the field! #mbi_colleague
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Building The Commons
Description of a pilot program addressing polarization on social media which suggests that positive, depolarizing change is possible. #mbi_colleague
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Adding Up To Peace: The Cumulative Impacts of Peace Programming
Effective peacebuilding needs to adapt to a constantly updated and systemic analysis of the key drivers of conflict. #mbi_colleague
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Can the Coronavirus Heal Polarization?
An exploration of how the pandemic could help us heal our polarization (if we can find a way past Trump's politicalization of the virus). #mbi_colleague
