Constructive Conflict Massive Open Online Seminar (MOOS)
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Things You Can Do To Help | Conflict Frontiers | Conflict Fundamentals
Beyond Intractability in Context | Colleague Activities
- Donations and Support Needed! -- Beyond Intractability is launching a Go Fund Me campaign to raise a little money to cover core program expenses. Please contribute what you can. #mbi_challenge
- Business As Usual-4: Power and the Power Strategy Mix -- What is power? The ability to get things done? The ability to push other people around? Which is right? (Actually, they both are.) #mbi_frontiers
- Oppression and Conflict: Introduction -- Amid today's efforts to actually do something about oppression, it's worth stepping back and thinking about what the term actually means. #mbi_fundamentals
- Network Weaver -- One of our Colleague Activities posts highlights Network Weaver's tools for strengthening large-scale complex systems. #mbi_colleague
- 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 =
- Complex Adaptive Systems -- Successfully working with complex system requires us to challenge many of our assumptions and understand the limits of rational planning. #mbi_fundamentals
- The American Medical System Is One Giant Workaround -- A look at the haphazard nature of the American medical system and a window into how large-scale, complex systems become so dysfunctional. #mbi_context
- Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism -- A billionaire's welcome appeal for a new kind of capitalism where companies work to advance societal, not just shareholder, interests. #mbi_context
- The Return of "I'll Fight You for It" Rules -- Are efforts to solve problems collaboratively losing to naked contests of Machiavellian power? #mbi_frontiers
- Conflict Fundamentals Seminar/Blog -- To be successful, any effort to advance the conflict field will require an understanding of, and a willingness to build upon, the field's existing insights. #mbi_fundamentals
- Seek Co-existence, Not Total Victory -- The demand for total victory is a recipe for continuing and deepening strife--co-existence is essential for peace. #mbi_to_do
- SMU Professor Teaches Students How To Dialogue Without Arguing -- A report on an effort to better teach an essential life skill, constructively and respectfully debating controversial issues. #mbi_context
- Our Most Important Conflict: Coexisters vs. Fighters vs. Divide & Conquerors -- We need to resist "divide and conqueror" efforts to control society by exacerbating and exploiting left/right tensions. #mbi_frontiers
- Americans’ Views of ‘Socialism’ and ‘Capitalism’ In Their Own Words -- An interesting window into how people think about the relative merits of socialist and capitalist economic systems. #mbi_context
- Conflict Isn't a Spectator Sport -- A simple idea that can go a long way toward changing today's destructive conflict dynamics. #mbi_to_do
- Conflict Frontiers Seminar Series & Blog -- The challenge of intractable conflict requires a willingness to consider, debate, and refine new ideas for advancing the frontier of the conflict field. #mbi_frontiers
- The poverty of partisan identity -- An insightful call for the kind of identity politics that reaches beyond partisanship to encompass other aspects of our lives. #mbi_context
- In the United States, Polarization Runs Particularly Deep -- In order to escape from today's deep political divide, we need articles like this one that help us understand the origins of our troubles. #mbi_context
- Treat EVERYONE With Respect -- One post from our Things to Do to Help section focuses on the many advantages of treating one's adversaries with respect. #mbi_to_do
- The West Has a Resentment Epidemic -- An in-depth, international look at the stark political divide that has emerged between the big cities and the countryside. #mbi_context
- The Upside of Populism -- An argument that populism could be a positive force (provided that we learn the lessons of Progressive Era populism). #mbi_context
- Things YOU Can Do To Help Blog -- While the conflict problem is extraordinarily complex, much of the solution lies in simple steps we can all take in our daily lives to help address the problem. #mbi_to_do
- Something Special Is Happening in Rural America -- Limiting economic inequality: Good news for those looking for an alternative to today's increasingly unlivable and unaffordable big cities. #mbi_context
- The America That Isn’t Polarized -- A look at the 50+% of the US population that hold both liberal and conservative views and who are not engaged in our polarized politics. #mbi_context
- Constructive Conflict Massive Open Online Seminar (MOOS) -- The MOOS Seminar is a structure for a series of social network and newsletter posts combined with opportunities for contributing your ideas. #mbi_challenge
