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- As Fighters Lay Down Arms To Combat Coronavirus, We Must Pick Up the Tools To Build Peace -- The Coronavirus is creating opportunities to diffuse some of the world's most terrible conflicts. A USIP essay on how to take advantage of these opportunities. #mbi_colleague -- Apr 17
- Are We at the Start of a New Protest Movement? -- Our most vulnerable citizens need effective ways of calling attention to their plight. And, the rest of us need to listen and respond with generosity. #mbi_context -- Apr 16
- The Global Coronavirus Crisis Is Poised to Get Much, Much Worse -- We got ourselves into such terrible trouble by ignoring danger signs. We shouldn't repeat the mistake as the crisis unfolds. #mbi_context -- Apr 16
- Global Pandemics, National Borders, and Political Problem-Solving -- In this pre-COVID-19 essay, Ken Cloke shares 10 steps needed to respond effectively to pandemics and other similar global threats. #mbi_knowbase -- Apr 16
- How to Increase Happiness, According to Research -- Something for our deeply divided society to contemplate as we face an uncertain future: What, exactly as happiness and how is it best pursued? #mbi_context -- Apr 15
- 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? -- Apr 14
- 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 -- Apr 14
- 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 -- Apr 14
- What We Don't Know About the Coronavirus -- A sobering look at the many uncertainties that will continue to surround COVID-19. We have to learn how to sensibly deal with them. #mbi_context -- Apr 14
- Trusting News project: Helping journalists earn news consumers’ trust -- It's easy to lament the public's distrust of quality journalism. Trusting News is an organization that is actually trying to do something about it. #mbi_colleague -- Apr 13
- Politics, Dialogue, and the Evolution of Democracy -- Ken Cloke -- There is an alternative to all-out, us-vs-them politics. For those who want to learn about it, this is a good place to start. #mbi_knowbase -- Apr 13
- The America We Need -- The first of an new, important New York Times series exploring how we might, in the wake of the pandemic, start healing our troubled society. #mbi_context -- Apr 12
- The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Cleave America in Two -- If we want to "all be in this together" we need to work a lot harder to flatten social inequities (and not just the infection curve). #mbi_context -- Apr 10
- Benny Gantz Put His Country First. Will Benjamin Netanyahu Do the Same? -- From Israel, a story about a courageous and controversial attempt to form a national unity government and start depolarizing society. #mbi_context -- Apr 09
- We’re Not ‘All in It Together’ -- But we could be, if we rise to the moment. -- “People make choices. Choices make history.” Thoughtful reflections on how the choices we are now making will shape the post pandemic-world. #mbi_context -- Apr 09
- The Trailer: The pandemic and the protesters -- We need a whole new generation of protest strategies capable of defending disempowered groups while we all struggle with the Coronavirus. #mbi_context -- Apr 08
- Building Trust, Confidence and Collective Action in the Age of COVID-19 -- A first-rate, must-read analysis of larger social context of the COVID-19 crisis with realistic, concrete steps we can all take to minimize the damage. #mbi_context -- Apr 08
- To Fight Coronavirus, There’s No Substitute for U.S. Leadership -- 3 billion people are about to face the Coronavirus without even being able to wash their hands! An essay about the what the US could do to help. #mbi_context -- Apr 07
- What America Needs Next: A Biden National Unity Cabinet -- A intriguing proposal for a realistic step that Vice President Biden could take to start depolarizing US society in a way that would permit real problem-solving. #mbi_context -- Apr 07
- Building Trust, Confidence and Collective Action in the Age of COVID-19 -- A first-rate, must-read analysis of larger social context of the COVID-19 crisis with realistic, concrete steps we can all take to minimize the damage. #mbi_context -- Apr 07
- The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun -- An explanation of how the Coronavirus problem and our destructive politics are inextricably linked and why we desperately need new ideas for bridging the gap. #mbi_context -- Apr 06
- The Coronavirus Could Cause a Social Recession -- Another side effect of the Coronavirus that demands attention from people who understand relationships--the "social recession." #mbi_context -- Apr 06
- How the Pandemic Is Magnifying America’s Class Divide -- It is important to recognize and start taking steps to counter the many ways in which the Coronavirus is amplifying already serious social tensions. #mbi_context -- Apr 03
- The Virus and the Blitz -- A great essay highlighting things we can learn from the way in which the Brits endured World War II's London Blitz. #mbi_context -- Apr 03
- The Fog of Pandemic -- Thoughtful reflections on how to live with the maddening uncertainties swirling around the Coronavirus pandemic. #mbi_context -- Apr 02
