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. 

How Do We Build a Better Society? Have Better Arguments

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Practical advice for transforming conflict into genuine learning opportunities while, at the same time, saving relationships. #mbi_colleague

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Peacebuilding and the Arts - Oct. 2020 Newsletter

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Exploring ways that art and culture can help us deal with our multiple current crises. #mbi_colleague

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Democracy in Southeast Asia: Between Discontent and Hope

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The discontent is rooted in several key strategic drivers, creating both opportunities and challenges that need to be properly understood and managed. #mbi_colleague

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How to Build a Life -- A column about pointing yourself toward happiness

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A series of provocative essays on the nebulous, but all important, topic of happiness---it's not just money and status. #mbi_colleague

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COVID-19 in Somalia: A conflict-sensitive response to overlapping crises

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An example of how understanding the conflicts that swirl around a problem can make problem-solving easier. #mbi_colleague

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Resources for Saving our Country Using Nonviolent Resistance

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More for worst-case planners: info about a potential coup and what we can do to resist, updated daily. #mbi_colleague

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George Lakey on Using Nonviolence to Prevent a Coup

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For worst -case planners: multiple articles about preventing a Trump authoritarian take over of American democracy. #mbi_colleague

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A Joint Appeal to Protect the Rule of Law in the 2020 U.S. Elections

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A nonpartisan appeal for the rule of law in the U.S. elections made by lawyers, academics, philantropists, faith leaders, retired military & others. #mbi_colleague

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U.S. Election Violence Is Not Inevitable: How To Prevent It Before, During, And After November 3rd

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A call for Americans to work together to prevent violence and address the accelerated conflict dynamics in the U.S surrounding the U.S. elections #mbi_colleague

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