Use this POST DATE ORDERED BLOG for Colleague Activities posts. Individual entries can be drawn from links to information about colleague activities posted elsewhere on the web or from write-ups that we have done and posted on BI (see "MBI Core Content Basic Pages" coded as "Seminar/Discussion: College Activities") NOTE: Entries need to be made for all existing Colleague Activity posts using the same Title and Facebook-Length Summary. 

Toda Peace Institute Global Outlook - June 20.2024

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Global Outlook articles from Toda Peace Institute’s expert commentators focus on significant developments in treaties and agreements, geopolitical relationships and international legal decisions.

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Are You Willing to Walk a Mile in Their Media Shoes?

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Distorted views of our political opponents often lead us to interpret their news and their positions in the worst possible way.  Try watching "their" news to see where they are coming from.

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Not Invited to the Party Primary: Independent Voters and the Problem with Closed Primaries

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This report examines who independent voters are, how many there are, shows how they are excluded from primaries, and presents solutions to that problem.

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America Must Face Its Civic Crisis

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Politics is no longer a space for civic inquiry, argument, and creativity, but a place where civic hope goes to die. But it’s not dead yet. Everyday Americans are demonstrating how a little civic hope can ignite a chain reaction to build more.

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Elon Musk is making political debate more toxic — here’s how to change course

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An op-ed by our colleague Zachary Elwood using the Elon Musk story as an "attention getter" to get readers (and high profile media outlets) to start thinking about polarization as a serious problem.

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Wicked Problems-Wise Cities - Intro video 1

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This first of 3 videos by Martin Carcasson focuses on how the wicked problems lens can help reframe public issues to transform engagement in more productive ways.

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Revitalizing Political Leadership

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A special issue of the journal Democracy, examining ways in which talented and civically minded citizens can be encouraged to enter public service and presents case studies of where that has already happened to good ends.

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