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Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 12

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Amid all the bad news, a lot of positive things are happening to strengthen democracy. Take a look at some of them, and the storm clouds still growing.

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

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Healthy conflict resolution systems rely primary on interest-based negotiations, using rights and power contests much less frequently. US democracy currently does the opposite.

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Kevin Clements' "Authoritarian Populism and Atavistic Nationalism: 21st Century Challenges to Peacebuilding and Development"

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Are liberal, democratic capitalist states operating under the rule of law capable of meeting the economic, welfare, and identity needs of citizens in the 21st century? If not, what can?

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Institute for Global Leadership

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IGL provides training and consultation for leaders and teams to adapt to the changed dynamics of a post-9/11 world. They train reconciliation leaders with personal, interpersonal, systemic, and global competencies in business, community, institutional, national, and world environments.

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Sharp vs. Fuzzy Feedback — The Distinction That Explains Why Society Can Be Both Astonishingly Smart and Incredibly Stupid

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We are good at understanding and responding to sharp feedback, but not nearly as good seeing and responding to fuzzy feedback, which is the source of many serious mistakes.

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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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