Newsletters are listed and linked here in reverse chronological order, meaning most recent first.
2023 Newsletters
- Newsletter 176 - November 15, 2023 - The Israel/Hamas War: A Perfect Storm of Complexity and Chaos
- Newsletter 175 - November 15, 2023 - Intersectionality, Israel, and Peacebuilding: How Do They Mix?
- Newsletter 174 - November 10, 2023 - More On the Israel/Hamas War from Contributors
- Newsletter 173 - November 7, 2023 - The Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going
- Newsletter 172 - November 5, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of November 5, 2023
- Newsletter 171 - November 3, 2023 Colleagues' Thoughts about the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1
- Newsletter 170 - November 1, 2023 - Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty
- Newsletter 169 - October 30, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of October 15, 2023
- Newsletter 168 - October 29, 2023 - Julia Chaitin, Israeli Peacebuilder, on the Israeli-Gazan War
- Newsletter 167 - October 27, 2023 - Daniel Stid Talks about Ways to Strengthen Democracy by Replacing Polarization with Pluralism
- Newsletter 166 - October 24, 2023 - Special Edition of Colleague and Context Posts: The 2023 Israel-Hamas War
- Newsletter 165 - October 23, 2023 - Israel, Hamas, Evil, and the Bad-faith Actor Problem
- Newsletter 164 - October 17, 2023 - Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale
- Newsletter 163 - October 13, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of October 15, 2023
- Newsletter 162- October 10, 2023 - Bad-Faith Actors and the Red/Blue/Gold Divide
- Newsletter 161 - October 8, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of October 8, 2023
- Newsletter 160 - October 6, 2023 - Daniel Stid: Citizens’ Assemblies: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again)
- Newsletter 159 - October 3, 2023 - Fact, Value, Lie, or Uncertainty? How Do We Tell?
- Newsletter 158 - Sept. 21, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of Sept. 17, 2023
- Newsletter 157 - Sept 18, 2023 -Does the Power-With Approach Include Justice? Comments on Our Power-Over/Power-With Essay
- Newsletter 155 - Sept 14, 2023 - Pro-Democracy Efforts: the Tension between Power-Over or Power-With Approaches
- Newsletter 156 - Sept 12, 2023 - A Further Discussion of Dialogue
- Newsletter 154 - Sept 10, 2023- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of Sept. 10, 2023
- Newsletter 153 - Sept. 7, 2023 - Jay Rothman on Large Scale Interventions
- Newsletter 152 - Sept 3, 2023- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of Sept. 3, 2023
- Newsletter 151 - August 31, 2023 - Daniel Stid: Four Ways To Reframe Democracy in America
- Newsletter 150 - August 28, 2023 - Zach Elwood on the Belief that "Polarization is not the Problem"
- Newsletter 149 - August 24, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of Aug. 20, 2023
- Newsletter 148 - August 22, 2023 - More on Constructive Communication
- Newsletter 147 - August 16, 2023 - Talking with and Listening To People on the Other Side
- Newsletter 146 - August 13, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of Aug. 13, 2023
- Newsletter 145 - August 9, 2023 - Anne Leslie: Know Thyself
- Newsletter 144 - August 6, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of Aug. 6, 2023
- Newsletter 143 - August 2, 2023 - Constructively Navigating the World of Media Bias
- Newsletter 142 - July 30, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 30, 2023
- Newsletter 141 - July 27, 2023 - Jay Rothman and Daniela Cohen on the Aria Group School Intervention in Yellow Springs, Ohio
- Newsletter 140 - July 25, 2023 - Harry Boyte and Marie-Louise Strom: Constructive Nonviolence
- Newsletter 139 - July 23, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 23, 2023
- Newsletter 138 - July 20, 2023 - Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project: Modern Updates from Lum, Burgess, and Froehlich
- Newsletter 137 - July 18, 2023 Ted Wetzel's Disagreement Fitness
- Newsletter 136 - number accidentally skipped.
- Newsletter 135 - July 16, 2023 -Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 16
- Newsletter 134 - July 13, 2023 - Contradictory Thoughts About Dialogue
- Newsletter 133 - July 11, 2023 - Seven More Ways to Turn Down the Heat
- Newsletter 132 - July 9, 2023 -Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 9
- Newsletter 131 - July 7, 2023 - Bridging the Theory/Action Gap: One Key to Improving the Effectiveness of Efforts to Strengthen Democracy
- Newsletter 130 - July 5, 2023 - The Key to Saving Democracy: Reducing Polarization? Promoting Justice? It Takes More Than That!
- Newsletter 129 - June 30, 2023 - A Remarkable Effort to Do Trauma-Informed Peacebuilding Training in Ukraine Amidst Ongoing Trauma
- Newsletter 128 - June 28, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of June 25, 2023
- Newsletter 127 - June 26, 2023 - Rachel Kleinfeld and Shamil Idriss on Polarization, Philanthropic Plurality, Social Justice, and Democracy
- Newsletter 126 - June 22, 2023 - Social Justice Advocacy, Bridge-Building and Philanthropy: How Do These Intersect?
- Newsletter 125 - June 19, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of June 18
- Newsletter 124 - June 15, 2023 - More Ways to Turn Down the Heat
- Newsletter 123 - June 12, 2023 - Palma Strand: A Path Out of Polarization: The Strengthening Democracy Challenge and the Civity Storytelling Intervention
- Newsletter 122 - June 8, 2023 - Reversing or Better Yet, Avoiding, Destructive Escalation
- Newsletter 121 - June 5 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of June 5
- Newsletter-120 - June 1, 2023 - Divided Community Project: Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy
- Newsletter 119 - May 30, 2023 - Learning More about How the TRUST Network Does Massively Parallel Peacebuilding
- Newsletter 118 - May 25, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of May 22
- Newsletter 117 - May 22, 2023 - Escalation is the Most Dangerous Force on the Planet. But We Continue to Drive It
- Newsletter 116 - May 18,2023 - Paul Monteiro, Former Director of the Community Relations Service, Talking About How CRS Works its Magic
- Newsletter 115 - May 15, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of May 15
- Newsletter 114 - May 11, 2023 - An Award for NAFCM + Conflict Mapping and Other Tools for Understanding Complex Problems
- Newsletter 113 - May 9, 2023 - John Lande: The Importance of Really Listening – For Ourselves, Others, and Democracy
- Newsletter 112 - May 7, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of May 8
- Newsletter 111 - May 4, 2023 - D.G. Mawn Talks About Community Mediation and NAFCM
- Newsletter 110 - May 2, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of May 1
- Newsletter 109 - April 23, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of April 23
- Newsletter 108 - April 21, 2023 - ChatGPT — Can It "Listen" Better Than We Can?
- Newsletter 107 - April 18, 2023 - Sharing Ideas From Around the Globe on Ways to Strengthen Democracy - A BI/IGN Discussion
- Newsletter 106 - April 16, 2023 - Polarization's Toll on US Credibility, Progressives' Reverse CBT, and Other Colleague and Context Links
- Newsletter 105 - April 13, 2023 - Our Problem Isn't "Them"
- Newsletter 104 - April 11, 2023 - Carrie Menkel-Meadow: Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Protest
- Newsletter 103 - April 8, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of April 2
- Newsletter 102 - April 6, 2023 - The Power Strategy Mix — Empowering the Pursuit of the Common Good
- Newsletter 101 - April 4, 2023 - Alan Yarborough: Getting to Meaning
- Newsletter 100 - April 2, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of April 2
- Newsletter 99 - March 26, 2023 - Julia Roig and James Savage: Exploring Narrative Practices for Broad-based Movements in Contexts of Democratic Decline
- Newsletter 98 - March 23, 2023 - Helena Desivilya Syna on The Paradox of Tolerance with a response from Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess
- Newsletter 97 - March 21, 2023 - Rachel Kleinfeld's "Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy"
- Newsletter 96 - March 19, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of March 12
- Newsletter 95 March 16, 2023 - Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power
- Newsletter 94 March 14, 2023 - Kevin Clements' "Authoritarian Populism and Atavistic Nationalism: 21st Century Challenges to Peacebuilding and Development
- Newsletter 93 March 12, 2023 - - Colleague and Context Posts for week of March 12
- Newsletter 92 - March 8, 2023 - Sharp vs. Fuzzy Feedback — The Distinction That Explains Why Society Can Be Both Astonishingly Smart and Incredibly Stupid
- Newsletter 91 - March 5, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for week of March 5
- Newsletter 90 -- March 2, 2023 - Urban Rural Action Frameworks
- Newsletter 89 - February 28, 2023 - Blame and Contribution
- Newsletter 88 - February 26, 2023 Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 26
- Newsletter 87 - February 23, 2023 - Julia Roig Talks about Weaving a Healthy Democracy in the United States
- Newsletter 86 - February 21, 2023 Massively Circular Hyper-Polarization
- Newsletter 85- February 19, 2023 Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 19
- Newsletter 84- February 16, 2023 David Smith: Peace is My Day Job
- Newsletter 83 - February 14, 2023 - Conflict Core and Overlay Issues
- Newsletter 82 - February 12, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 12
- Newsletter 81 -February 10, 2023 - The Trust Network: An Example of Massively Parallel Peacebuilding in Action
- Newsletter 80 - February 7, 2023 - Carol Pauli's "The 'End' of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require a Deeper Value"
- Newsletter 79 - February 5, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 5
- Newsletter 78 - February 2, 2023 - Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective
- Newsletter 77 - January 31, 2023 - Could Massively Parallel Processes Make Hyper-Polarization Worse?
- Newsletter 76 - January 29, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 29
- Newsletter 75 - January 27, 2023 - Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat
- Newsletter 74 - January 25, 2023 - Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship
- Newsletter 73 - January 22, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 22
- Newsletter 72 - January 20, 2023 - The Google Maps and Adopt-a-Highway Approach to Systems
- Newsletter 71 - January 17, 2021 - From the Discussion: Kristin Hansen and the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America
- Newsletter 70 - January 15, 2023 - Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 15
- Newsletter 69 - January 12, 2023 - From the Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Anne Leslie on Embracing Ambiguity
- Newsletter 68 - January 10, 2023 - Addressing the Skeptics and Moving Forward
- Newsletter 67 - January 3, 2023 - Massively Parallel Peacebuilding/Problem Solving
2022 Newsletters
- Newsletter 66 - Dec. 18, 2022 - Essential Elements + Obstacles = The Things That Need Doing Matrix
- Newsletter 65 - Dec. 11, 2022 - Obstacles to Implementing the Elements of Successful Democracy
- Newsletter 64 - Dec. 5, 2022 - Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 2
- Newsletter 63 - Nov. 30, 2022 - Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 1
- Newsletter 62 - Nov. 17, 2022 - The 2022 Election – Did It Make Hyper-Polarization Better or Worse
- Newsletter 61 - Nov. 9, 2022 - Fighting Hyper-Polarization for Our Children and Grand Children
- Newsletter 60 - Oct. 31, 2022 - How Do We Get What We Want and Need? Through Polarization or Bridge-building, Reframing, and "Omni-Win" Approaches?
- Newsletter 59 - Oct. 24, 2022 - If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, It Is Going to Be Hard to Get There
- Newsletter 58 - Oct.17, 2022 - Developing a Vision for a Society in Which We Would All Like to Live
- Newsletter 57 - Oct. 12, 2022 - The Crane Brinton Effect — Why Revolutions Fail
- Newsletter 56 - Oct. 4, 2022 - Additional Perspectives on Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding
- Newsletter 55 - Sept 29, 2022 - On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 3
- Newsletter 54 - Sept 25, 2022 - On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 2
- Newsletter 53 - Sept. 21, 2022 - On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 1
- Newsletter 52 - Sept. 16, 2022 - Hyper-Polarization Challenges: Scale, Complexity, and Collaboration
- Newsletter 51 - Sept. 11, 2022 - Strategies for Revitalizing Democracy in the Post 9/11 Era
- Newsletter 50 - Sept 7, 2022 - How Can We Reduce Hyper-Polarization? Join BI's Discussion to Share Your Ideas and Learn Others!
- Newsletter 49 - July 2, 2022 - BI Announcements and Highlighting the work of Search for Common Ground
- Newsletter 48 - March 6. 2022 - The Ukrainian War — What Happens When You Have a War That Both Sides Absolutely, Positively Can't Afford to Lose?
- Newsletter 47 - Jan. 26, 2022 - Guy Burgess's answer to The Bridge Alliance's inquiry about priorities for reducing the now alarmingly high social divisiveness and alienation threatening our ability to function as a democratic republic
2021 Newsletters
- Newsletter 46 - Oct. 29, 2021 - Examining the problem of over-simplification of causes and conflicts to simple "us-verusu-them" narratives.
- Newsletter 45- Sept 15, 2021 - A reflection on what the U.S. has—and hasn't—learned since Vietnam.
- Newsletter 44- June 15, 2021 - Reconciliation--Badly Needed or a Misguided Goal?
- Newsletter 43 - June 2, 2021 - "Bad-Faith" Actors Part 2 -- Sources of Vulnerability
- Newsletter 42 - May 3, 2021 - "Bad-Faith" Actors Part 1
- Newsletter 41 - March 30, 2021 - Coming Home...To Terror : The King Soopers Mass Shooting
- Newsletter 40 - February 16, 2021 - Positive Thinking
- Newsletter 39 - February 5, 2021 - The Implications of John Paul Lederach's notion of "the meeting place" of peace, justice, truth, and mercy being reconciliation.
- Newsletter 38 -Jan. 26, 2021 - Avoiding the Category 5 Socio-political Hurricane
2020 Newsletters
- Newsletter 37 - Dec. 16, 2020 - So Where Do We Go Now?! (After the 2020 Election in the U.S.)
- Newsletter 36 - Oct. 30, 2020 - Taking Stock [of the Construcive Conflict Initiative] and Looking Ahead
- Newsletter 35 - Sept. 22, 2020 - Continuing Our Examination of Escalation and Polarization
- Newsletter 34 - August 27, 2020 - An Examination of Escalation
- Newsletter 33 - August 19, 2020 - COVID, Racism, and Conflict -- More Thoughts
- Newsletter 32 - June 22, 2020 - COVID, Racism, and Conflict: How Can We Respond Constructively?
- Newsletter 31 - May 11, 2020 - Conflict and COVID-19 ...Continued
- Newsletter 30 - April 2, 2020 - Conflict and COVID-19
- Newsletter 29 - January 14, 2020 - Update on Beyond Intractability's activities
2019 Newsletters
- Newsletter 28 - November, 22, 2019 - The Fall/Winter 2019/20 Constructive Conflict Massive Open Online Seminar (CC-MOOS)
- Newsletter 27 - November 17, 2019 - Feedback on CCI and Next Steps
- Newsletter 26 - April 18, 2019 - Site Redesign and the Constructive Conflict Statement:
2018 Newsletters
- Newsletter 25 - December 17, 2018
- Newsletter 24 - December 5, 2018
- Newsletter 23 - December 4, 2018
- Newsletter 22 - October 28, 2018
- Newsletter 21 - October 26, 2018
- Newsletter 20 - October 20, 2018
- Newsletter 19 - September 4, 2018
- Newsletter 18 - August 3, 2018
- Newsletter 17 - July 13, 2018
- Newsletter 16 - July 12, 2018
- Newsletter 15 - May 20, 2018
- Newsletter 14 - May 9, 2018
- Newsletter 13 - April 26, 2018
- Newsletter 12 - April 12, 2018
- Newsletter 11 - April 4, 2018
- Newsletter 10 - March 21, 2018
- Newsletter 9 - March 21, 2018
2017 Newsletters
- Newsletter 8 - December 8, 2017
- Newsletter 7 - September 20, 2017
- Newsletter 6 - July 31, 2017
- Newsletter 5 - June 28, 2017
- Newsletter 4 - June 8, 2017
- Newsletter 3 - May 26, 2017
- Newsletter 2 - April 18, 2017
- Newsletter 1 - April 2, 2017