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 Circular Hyper-Polarization

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All complex systems are made up of multiple interlocking negative and positive feedback loops that can lead to good or bad stability or good or bad change. Understanding these loops is essential for good outcomes.

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The Trust Network: An Example of Massively Parallel Peacebuilding in Action

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The Trust Network is an "if it exists, it must be possible" example of massively parallel peacebuilding. We are writing about it. They are doing it!

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Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 12

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In addition to more links to interesting projects that our democracy, conflict, and peace colleagues are doing, recommended articles on social change, political change, future challenges, and objectivity (or not) of the media.

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Carol Pauli's "The 'End' of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require a Deeper Value"

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Pauli asserts that neutrality is an "unsatisfying value" for both journalists and mediators in our current conflicted times, and might be better replaced with a fundamental reliance on human dignity of every person.

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

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Constructive confrontation applies conflict resolution theory and practice to advocacy efforts in an effort to limit pushback and maximize attainment of ones interests and needs.

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Could MPP Make Hyper-Polarization Worse?

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Bad-faith actors can and do use a massively parallel strategy to drive us apart. But that doesn't mean that the strategy is bad -- it means that it is effective. Good-faith actors need to learn how to use these techniques to bring us together.

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Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 29

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In addition to more links to interesting projects that our democracy, conflict, and peace colleagues are doing, recommended articles on political moderates, the lifetime insights of prominent social activists, ways of limiting done violence, and other topics.

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Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat

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A look at what we know about reducing the mutual hostility (associated with escalation and hyper-polarization dynamics) that contributes so much to mass shootings, gun deaths, and interpersonal and political violence.

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Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 15

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Rather than continuing to post individual links on social media, I have decided to start posting a larger collection of such links each week in the Beyond Intractability Substack Newsletter.

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The Google Maps and Adopt-a-Highway Approach to Systems (Newsletter 72)

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If we were to map all the challenges Google-maps style, and then each person or organization were to adopt one or two of the challenges that were not widely adopted by others, that could have a much bigger impact. 

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