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- Promoting De-Escalation – Part 1: Conciliatory Gestures -- Though risky, escalation is riskier! Conciliatory gestures can turn escalation around.
- Counter Hate and Malevolence - Part 2 -- Responding to hate with hate is like pouring gasoline on a fire...you are likely to get burned!
- Counter Hate and Malevolence - Part 1 -- Hate, no matter how "justified" hurts us more than it helps us. Don't do it!
- Limit "Us-vs-Them" Language, Thinking and Action -- If you collaborate with "your enemy" against escalation and "divide & conquerors"--you both can win!
- Why Relationships Matter -- Social media is driving our conflicts--real HUMAN relationships can change that.
- Confront Constructively -- Thi post explains what Constructive Confrontation is and why we need it.
- Pick Your Fights--Let Things Go When You Can -- Fights cost lots and may be lost! If you can live and let live, it is often much better for all.
- Try Collaboration First! -- If we dig below positions, we often can collaborate with "our enemies" to the benefit of all.
- Listen To and Talk With (not to) the Other Side -- Even ifyou think you know what the other side thinks, you likely don't--and they don't know you either.
- Find Others to Work With -- Alone we can do a little bit, but with others we can accomplish much more. Collaboration works!
- Treat EVERYONE With Respect -- Respect is free to give, yet its payback is huge: breaking down stereotypes and often earning respect in return.
- Don't Take the "Hate Bait" -- Hate begets hate, fear, anger, and eventually violence. Don't fall into the trap! And if you are in, climb out!
- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 5: The "Protected Classes" and the "Left Behind" -- More ideas for spanning the left/right divide: the win-win pursuit of social equity, multi-multi-culturalism, and more.
- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 4: The "Super Rich" and the "Meritocratic Elite" -- How might the super-rich be persuaded to do the right thing? How might the cosmopolitan elite better earn the public's support and trust?
- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 3: Communication, Governance, and Economics -- Find out about building a "conflict mirror" (so you can understand why you make others so mad) other constructive conflict strategies.
- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 2: “Hate Bait,” Framing, and Escalation -- Find out how you can combat the destructive conflict dynamics that are making the left/right divide so intractable.
- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 1: Authoritarian and Partisan Conflict -- The first key to saving democracy is to understand how that differs from simply trying to advance partisan objectives.
- Conflict Frontiers Seminar 8 -- MPP-based Strategies for Addressing the Authoritarian Populism Problem -- A complexity-based approach to strengthening democracy and avoiding authoritarian populism
- The Divide and Conquer Authoritarian / Plutocratic Threat -- Today's most serious conflicts are, in large part, being engineered by those who seek power over the rest of the society.
- Red, Blue, Gold Interactions, Destructive Polarization and the Peacebuilding Imperative -- Democracy depends on separating the authoritarian/plutocratic threat from left/right cultural and distributional conflicts.
- The Purple/Gold Distributional Divide -- The widely misunderstood complexity of "who gets what" distributional conflicts explains much of our inequality problem.
- The Red/Blue Cultural Divide -- The evolutionary, neurobiological foundation of the cultural divide requires approaching it with mutual tolerance and respect.
- Mapping the Continuum between Democracy and Authoritarianism -- Like the proverbial frog in hot water, democracies have been sliding toward authoritarianism with too few people recognizing the danger.
- Mapping the Authoritarian Populism "Conflict Complex," an Overview -- Meeting the challenge of authoritarian populism will require a sophisticated understanding of "who is fighting who over what."
- Using the MPP Action List: The Authoritarian Populism Example (Part II) -- Find out what you can do to strengthen democracy while reducing the risk of authoritarianism.
