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. 

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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Julia Roig: Where Does Civil Resistance and Social Justice Fit in MPP?

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How do we distinguish when taking a stand is what’s absolutely called for – because we’ve reached the tipping point of uncivil politics/undemocratic behaviors? But perhaps we need to find a better way of doing it.

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Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess: Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship

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Advocacy plays a key role in Massively Parallel Peacebuilding.  But, this role can either be supportive and helpful, or destructive, depending on how it is done. 

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Beyond Conflict's Reports on America's Divided Mind and Renewing American Democracy

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Now is our time to re-rebuild our democracy, and it will take all of us, working on multi-faceted solutions at the local, state, and national levels.

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Kristin Hansen talks about the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America

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A discussion of ends and means, incentives, interventions, scale, challenges, successes, visions--Kristen's vision is clear and exceptionally wide ranging at the same time. (Summary of full interview)

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Conversation with Kristin Hansen, Executive Director of the Civic Health Project

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To really do bridge building work credibly, you can't assume an outcome. You have to move upstream. and you have to be about means and not about ends. You have to trust that the ends will go where the universe wants them to go. (Full interview)

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Canaries, Constructive Advocates, and Intermediaries

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A comparison of three conflict roles, all of which are needed to successfully confront challenging and complex social problems and issues.

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