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Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 26

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More links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.

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Focus on Contribution, Not Blame

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Focusing on blame doesn't solve problems, it just makes them more intractable. Focusing on contribution instead encourages collaborative problem solving that stands a much better chance of success.

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Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 5, 2023

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Ideas from five of our colleagues, as well as observations from people in allied fields about stresses to our democracy, and how to address them effectively.

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Julia Roig Talks about Weaving a Healthy Democracy in the United States

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Julia Roig talks about her efforts to build a social movement to support democracy in the U.S. Such a movement needs to both block and build: block bad actors, and build a new pluralistic society that works.

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Fighting Hyper-Polarization for Our Children and Grand Children

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This newsletter focuses on the importance of continuing our efforts to strengthen democracy, and considers one obstacle to doing that: being too sure of oneselves (the QED trap).

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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding/Problem Solving

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Defusing the hyper-polarization spiral is an extremely large and complex task. This newsletter introduces a promising strategy for working at this level.

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Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 22

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Links to things that our colleagues are doing at places like Search for Common Ground, Renew America, the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, as well as fifteen fascinating articles that help us understand the complexity of society-wide intractable conflict.

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Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 5

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In addition to more links to interesting projects that our democracy, conflict, and peace colleagues are doing, recommended articles on tech, education, and changing demographics.

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