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Revisiting BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative - Part 1

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Looking back on the 5-year old Constructive Conflict Initiative, a lot has happened to bring it to fruition. But a lot of challenges remain.

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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of September 15, 2024

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We've been on vacation, so, to cover what we've missed, this is a long set of news, opinion, colleague, and recommended readings from our followers.

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Reprise: The Power Strategy Mix — Empowering the Pursuit of the Common Good

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Power takes three forms that can be mixed and matched: coercion, exchange, and integration. The "recipe" for the optimal "power strategy mix" changes depending on whom you are trying to influence.

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Reprise: Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power

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Constructive confrontation calls for resolving most disputes through interest-based negotiation; only if that fails should one try a contest of rights, reserving nonviolent power contests as a very last resort.

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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of September 8, 2024

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Readings on Israel, the U.S. political scene, and other intractable conflicts of note.

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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of September 1, 2024

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More in our regular set of links from readers, about colleague's activities, and from outside news and opinion sources.

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Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 2

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In part 2 of this 2-part series, we apply Martin Carcasson's notion of "principled impartiality" to the Israel/Gaza/Hezbollah/Iran war, and to the political conflict in the United States.

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Reprise: Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective

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A reprise of an old newsletter on constructive ways of engaging in conflict that is less likely to create backlash and more likely to achieve one's goals than typical adversarial approaches are likely to do.

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Guy and Heidi Burgess Talk with David Eisner about Threats to Democracy and How to Address Them

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The Burgesses talked with David Eisner about what he thinks the threats to democracy are, and how (and when) we might respond to them. We agreed, citizen involvement in governance is key.

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Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 1

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The Burgesses update their 2-year old discussion of impartiality, adding to it Martin Carcasson's notion of "principled impartiality" which adds in quality information and "small-d" democracy.

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