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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Guidelines for Conversations that Matter
From the World Café cute graphic highlighting guidelines for convening conversations that matter in person and online. #mbi_colleague
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Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division
As we try to craft a societywide response to the coronavirus, we need books like this one to help us escape the malevolence of today's politics. #mbi_colleague
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Kleptocracy Initiative - Hudson Institute
The Kleptocracy Initiative is an effort to focus thinking on the extreme cases of corruption that are undermining so many societies. #mbi_colleague
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Peace Trail on the National Mall | United States Institute of Peace
A great idea from USIP, a Peace Trail designed to refocus the way in which we think about Washington DC's war and other memorials. #mbi_colleague
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Citizen University
Citizen University – an interesting effort to start building the civic skills that are now so sorely lacking. #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!
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The Battle for the Constitution
For democracy in serious trouble, a project that the takes a serious look at the tough questions surrounding the U.S. Constitution. #mbi_colleague
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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!