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Duncan Autrey: It's Time to Upgrade Our Democracy

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Our current democratic system is inherently flawed because it relies on elected officials to represent people without an effective means of listening to them. We must fix that!

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Kevin Clements et al: The Toda Peace Institute's Conversations on the Subversion of Democracies in the 21st Century

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Democracy is backsliding around the world, driven by polarization, attacks on democratic fundamentals by duly-elected "democratic" leaders, and clandestine, insidious incremental changes.

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Responses to Our Crane Brinton Essay

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Conrad and Camus also pointed out what we called the Crane Brinton Effect--revolutions tend to lead only to an exchange of regimes with an even more brutal regime likely to replace preceding one.

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Developing a Vision for a Society in Which We Would All Like to Live

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With this newsletter, we start imagining a less polarized future with lessons from South Africa from Ebrahim Rasool as well as observations from Neal Kohatsu, Ken Cloke, and Duncan Autrey.

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The Crane Brinton Effect — Why Revolutions Fail

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Amid calls for a political revolution to fight systemic oppression, a critical look at why revolutions fail with contributions from the Burgesses, Peter Adler, James Adams, William Donohue, and Mark Hamilton.

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Duncan Autrey: We All Win, or We All Lose

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We all agree society is in grave trouble.  We all have different notions of how to fix it. If we pool our knowledge and work together, we can create a better world for everyone. 

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On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Additional Perspectives

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More insight into the complex relationship between social justice advocacy and peacebuilding from Larry Susskind, Louis Kriesberg, Jay Rothman, Ken Cloke, Greg Bourne, Lisa Schirch, and Martin Carcasson.

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On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 2

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Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font-Guzmán offer a critique of our focus on hyper-polarization based on their book, The Neutrality Trap.

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Summary of "A Framework for Understanding Polarizing Language"

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Polarizing language demonstrates features that are readily identifiable. Can such warnings can be heard and action taken to enable people to shift from violence to problem solving before it's too late?

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