Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of May 4, 2025
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Insightful readings for this week.
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Things to Think About -- Alone and Together - Part 1
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An introduction to a set of exercises that people can do alone or in groups to think through difficult conflict situations and find ways of overcoming obstacles to moving forward more constructively.
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Things to Think About -- Alone and Together - Part 2
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Two more interesting exercises to think about ways of constructively approaching intractable conflicts and the role of intervenors in those conflicts.
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Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of April 27, 2025
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This weeks readings from colleagues and journalists of note.
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Predicting a "Rule-of-Law" Crisis?
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Are we facing a "constitutional" or "rule-of-law" crisis? What can/should the peacebuilding community do in such circumstances? This is what we call "the peacebuilder's dilemma."
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Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of April 20, 2025
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Another interesting set of readings con hyper-polarization and related topics.
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Daniel Stid: Competitive Authoritarianism Comes for Civil Society
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An exploration of the critical role that civil society needs to play in the defending US democracy and thoughts about how civil society might overcome the challenges that are making it difficult for it to play that role.
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Harry Boyte and the Burgesses on Thinking Politically
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What does "thinking politically" mean in terms of nonviolent action. It doesn't mean thinking along party lines. Rather, it means thinking strategically about audiences, desired outcomes and best strategies to meet those outcomes.
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Responsibilities of Bridgers -- And The Rest of Us
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David Eisner observes that bridgers serve as a critical portal for ideas on each side to be heard, understood and considered by the other when they are too angry to listen to the other on their own. Are bridgers the only people who can do that?
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David Eisner's P.S. -- Are Trump's Moves -- and the Results -- Controlled Burns or Out-of-Control Wildfires?
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David Eisner asks whether the fires we talked about in our "Fiddling While Rome Burns" series are controlled burns or forest fires. The Burgesses respond "out of control forest fires" -- and explain why.
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