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. 

What's the best strategy for reducing toxic divides? Cultural change or systemic change?

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Zach Elwood talks with David Foster of Know the System.org about ways we can change the media environment to improve political discourse and decrease toxic polarization.

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Global Fragility Act Coalition

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A coalition of 100 peacebuilding, development, humanitarian, and faith organizations, led by the Alliance for Peacebuilding and Mercy Corp to help the U.S. administration to successfully implement the GFA.

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Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association

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This division encourages psychological and multidisciplinary research, education and training on peace, nonviolent conflict resolution, reconciliation, and the causes, consequences and prevention of violence and destructive conflict. 

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America's Divided Mind: Video Intervention

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This is a 4-minute video which was named one of the most effective interventions to reduce support for political violence, anti-democratic attitudes, and animosity across partisan lines.

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Leading a Divided Campus: Ideas and Illustrations

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A timely reminder of the limited support that Iran's aggressive military campaigns enjoy with the Iranian people themselves.

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Joint Campus-Law Enforcement Preparation for Campus Demonstrations and Hate Incidents amid Violence in the Middle East

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An extensively annotated checklist based on input from current and former campus security. city police chiefs and mediators who have worked large-scale crowd events and hate incidents.

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Uncommon and nonpartisan: Antidemocratic attitudes in the American public

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While American political elites increasingly exhibit an antidemocratic posture, both Democratic and Republican constituencies overwhelmingly and consistently oppose norm violations and partisan violence.

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