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- The New China Scare -- With respect to China, an argument for not repeating the United States' Soviet era mistake of over inflating our adversaries. #mbi_context
- Enemy Images -- Enemy images deepen our socio-economics and political problems, while they make effective problem solving impossible. #mbi_fundamentals
- The Divide in Yakima Is the Divide in America -- For those who don't have time to really talk with those on the other side, articles like this can help us understand one another. #mbi_colleague
- "Scaling The Commons An intervention to depolarize political conversations on Twitter and Facebook in the USA." -- An organization that is trying, with some success, to do the impossible--facilitate constructive dialogue on Twitter. #mbi_colleague
- Allow Your Opponents to "Save Face." -- Key to solving a great many problems is giving people a face-saving way to change their behavior and admit that they've learned things. #mbi_to_do
- I Invented the World Wide Web -- Here’s How We Can Fix It -- A report on a global effort to figure out how to restore the Web to its original promise. Their approach, a "Contract for the Web." #mbi_context
- Project Purple Coalition -- We are not alone. There are lots of people and organizations that are trying very hard to help democracy overcome its many difficulties. #mbi_colleague
- The Google Traffic Metaphor -- Google Maps and Adopt-a-Highway programs, crazy, but I think illuminating, metaphors for better dealing with society-wide conflict. #mbi_frontiers
- A Review of "The Meritocracy Trap" by Daniel Markov -- A review of the new book that helps explain the widespread resentment of meritocratic elites that is at the core of so much conflict. #mbi_context
- Modernizing Congress: Bringing Democracy into the 21st Century -- A step in the right direction -- developing ways to improve Congress' problem-solving ability (and provide an alternative to partisan gridlock). #mbi_colleague
- Understand Your--and Others'--Fundamental Human Needs -- What would happen if we focused on meeting the fundamental human needs of our adversary and then asked them to do the same? #mbi_to_do
- This Has Been the Best Year Ever -- As we struggle with today's very difficult challenges, we should not lose track of the fact that, in many ways, things are getting better. #mbi_context
- The Presidential Nominating Process Is Absurd -- For those frustrated by the Presidential nominating process, ideas for making things better. #mbi_context
- Why Chain Exercise -- An exercise for students (and everyone else). Instead of a single cause, think in terms of a chain of causes that explain why things happen. #mbi_activities
- The Democratic Debates Are a Fantasy World -- For the debate and the campaign, a much better set of questions (if we want a President who can really solve problems (and heal the country). #mbi_context
- Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong -- A story about an important new effort to get closer to the truth by encouraging people to admit and then work to correct their own misconceptions. #mbi_context
- A Ridiculously Optimistic History of the Next Decade -- David Brooks has a great new game. Imagine an optimistic future in which we constructively handle our differences (& try to make it happen). #mbi_context
- How a ‘quantum change’ in missiles has made Iran a far more dangerous foe -- For those who think that the US will easily win a military confrontation with Iran, sobering news that the balance of power has shifted! #mbi_context
- How Hypocrisy Became Standard Operating Procedure for the U.S. Government -- An analysis of the daunting problems that will have to be solved in order to prevent the kind of hypocrisy revealed by the Afghanistan Papers. #mbi_context
- The Meaning of Civility -- Before civility can provide an alternative to today's hyper-partisan dysfunction we need a clear image of what it is and isn't. #mbi_frontiers
- The Economist Who Wants To Ditch Math -- A look at an economist who wants us to move beyond quantitative, rational, econometric models and look at the complexity of human thought. #mbi_context
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
