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Colleague and Context Links for the Week of March 17, 2024

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Submissions from readers, activities and publications from colleagues, and interesting articles from allied fields about conflict, peace, and democracy.

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Gaza, Ukraine, Increasing Global Tensions, and the Nature of War

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An exploration of Quincy Wright's image of total war, reasons why it is so much more dangerous than lesser armed conflicts, and mechanisms through which it could quickly spread around the world.

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Bari Weiss: What it Means to Choose Freedom, Supplemented by Franklin Foer and the Burgesses

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Bari Weiss (The Free Press) and Franklin Foer (The Atlantic) reflect on the meaning of the war in Gaza and world response to it, to prospects for the survival of liberal democracy worldwide. The two, they agree, are linked.

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Colleague and Context Links for the Week of March 10, 2024

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Our usual Sunday link suggestions from readers, together with our compilation of interesting colleague activities, plus news and opinion articles of interest to the conflict field.

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Colleague and Context Links for the Week of March 3, 2024

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More readings and videos suggested by readers, along with our weekly pick of colleague activities and important writing from outside our field.

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Bill Froehlich Talks about the Ohio State Divided Community Project

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A summary of a conversation Bill Froehlich about the work of the Divided Community Project which works to help deeply divided communities come together to prevent, and respond to civic strife.

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Lou Kriesberg, Deborah Laufer, and Ashok Panikkar: Hopeful Thoughts About What Could Be, Contrasted with Darker Thoughts About What Is

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One positive, optimistic look at what could happen in Israel/Palestine, and others looking at some of the negative forces that are working against such an integrative outcome.

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Peter Coleman on The Way Out of Polarization and Intractability

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Polarization is destroying our relationships with friends and family. Peter Coleman has a way to fix that -- and possibly fix our society as well.

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Reader Responses on the Israel/Hamas War and Reconciliation and Justice

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You cannot provide facts, logic, or reasoning when it comes to “sacred values.” So what should one do when one group's "sacred value" calls for the total destruction of another group?

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