Use this for post-date ordered blog materials to be featured on the CC-MOOS All Recent Posts section of the BI homepage AND on the more limited, Selected Recent Posts section used on the landing pages mobile versions of BI. This is the same list we use on social media for the "Selected Posts" (MBI) option. 

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 14, 2024

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Another of our weekly suggested links from readers and the Burgesses.

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Become Part of the Solution

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The American electorate includes True Believers, Pro-Democracy Transpartisans, and the Disillusioned, Disengaged, and Politically Homeless. We need to grow the second group, while shrinking the other two if we want American democracy to survive.

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Knife Edge Elections, the 51% Hammer Strategy, Hatemongering, and Scapegoating

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Why are the United States' elections so close and so bitterly fought? Guy Burgess argues our knife-edge elections are caused by scapegoating, hatemongering, and our drive to get as much as we can for ourselves, by taking it away from the other side.

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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 7, 2024

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Reader-suggested links, along with the Burgess's compilation of colleague activities and outside readings of interest.

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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 2

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The first of two posts explaining the actor roles needed for a massively parallel peacebuilding/democracy building effort to work, which combined with an earlier post on strategy roles, makes up the current MPP role list.

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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 1

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People engaged in massively parallel peace and democracy building play at least 50 different roles. In Part 1 of this three part series, we explore the roles played by the "strategizers," or "big thinkers" who help us understand the both nature of the problem and possible responses.

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Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of March 24, 2024

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A rename of our regular "colleague and context links" to highlight how these readings and the activities they describe all fit within our "massively parallel" peace and democracy building framework--or show why it is needed.

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Lorelei Kelly on Strengthening Democracy at the Top and the Bottom

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Lorelei Kelly describes the work of the bipartisan Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress which passed 202 recommendations, many unanimously. Over 1/2 have been implemented and most others are in progress.

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Anne Leslie: Slurps, Sulks, and Family History: Do You Care Enough to Argue?

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Sometimes it is better to have an argument, rather than stew in silence, and have it with the mindset of wanting to learn more about the other person's truth instead of wanting to 'win'?

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Heidi Burgess Talks With James Coan about Taking De-Polarization Work "to Scale."

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Dialogue is great for the few participants, but it simply cannot be scaled up enough to change societal attitudes and behaviors. James Coan and Heidi Burgess discuss alternative ways to scale depolarization work.

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