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Toxic polarization fractures our relationships — even with our political peers

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The contempt arising from toxic polarization makes us less able to do the basic work of politics. There is an urgent need to see value in engaging in civil, respectful ways, even with people we see as wrong. 

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Search for Common Ground & United Nations Announce an Innovative Partnership for Humanitarian Diplomacy

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This partnership will enable the UN and Search to save lives and address the conflict drivers that create crises in the first place. The hope is this partnership will serve as a model for other such efforts.

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What's the end game of a New Way in our politics?

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Our task is to find and grow a new generation and community of leaders who seek the most good for the most people in the most expansive and gracious ways we can imagine. 

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Pluralism, Plurality, and the Generation of Collective Wisdom

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Ideas about how the generation of collective wisdom can enhance the work of the New Pluralists and others interested in escaping the destructive hyper-polarization and stagnation.

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Civil Rights: A Most Righteous Hangover

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Ashok Panikkar's reflections on how we took away the wrong lessons from US Civil Rights Movement, which has now contributed to the weakening of minority rights and Western democracies over the last few decades.

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