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. 

Positive Peace provides a framework to understand and then address the multiple and complex challenges the world faces.

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IEP’s empirically derived Positive Peace Framework involves the use of a systems-based approach to better understand the creation and maintenance of peaceful societies.

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Climate Security: Finding Shared Solutions to Shared Challenges

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ConnexUs's knowledge-sharing campaign is designed to promote discussion, shared learning & collaboration among peacebuilding, development, and humanitarian practitioners working on climate issues.

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Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center

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DDNRC seeks to ensure that college campuses sustain freedom of expression and academic freedom, promote pluralism, and expand opportunities for constructive communication across different perspectives. 

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The role and power of re-patterning in systems change.

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Shifting systems towards equity is possible. But to make that happen, it is the responsibility of everyone to start doing and being differently, in every part of every system, every day.

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Jazz and conflict resolution

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Jazz is a great metaphor for constructive approaches to conflict.  It has tension, yet creates beauty out of chaos. Everyone needs to listen to each other, exchange ideas, and find mutual inspiration.

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Rediscovering Social Innovation

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Social entrepreneurship has become popular for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.

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India Is on the Brink

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From India, a story about how hyper-polarized politics has inflamed social tensions to the point where true authoritarian rule and large-scale violence are imminent. (This is what we are trying to prevent (and reverse).

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America needs a cross-national approach to counter authoritarianism

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An article describing how the authoritarianism can be countered by promoting free, fair and trusted elections, combating mis- and dis-information, and cultivating informed and engaged voters.

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Defending and Strengthening Diverse Democracies

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Report of an extensive literature review and interviews highlighting drivers of democratic regression and opportunities to strengthen democracy in Brazil, India, South Africa and the U.S.

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