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Jean-Jacques Subrenat: Implementing Democracy

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Attacks on the rule of law in the U.S.A. are having an impact on the political mores of other democracies. The U.S. badly needs to update its own democracy to preserve the safety and prosperity of all around the world.

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Kristin Hansen: Are Bridge-builders Being "Too Nice" to the Right?

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The primary role of bridge-builders in America at this time is to "call in," not to "call out." That this does not make us irrelevant, it makes us essential.

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Matt Legge: Beware the Popular Idea That You Know a Hidden TruthBeware the Popular Idea That You Know a Hidden Truth

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This metaphor leads to a binary assumption: I'm right, they are wrong. We'd be well served dropping that assumption, and listening to others to learn how they might, actually, be right, and we are wrong.

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Frederick Golder on Common Ground instead of Polarization

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We cannot change anyone’s opinions, values, ideas, attitudes, judgments, or viewpoints, but, we can understand each other better through learning conversations and use those to find common ground.

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The 2022 Election – Did It Make Hyper-Polarization Better or Worse -- Newsletter 62

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While the worst anti-democratic outcomes may have been averted, this election was still not good for hyper-polarization, and perhaps not good for democracy either.

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Guy Burgess: Finding Common Ground / Constructive Approaches for Addressing Differences

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This process focuses on five questions examining the nature of the different beliefs and opinions, and how they might be dealt with most constructively depending on whether they are fact-based, moral, or both.

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Andrew Harward: A Vision of Constructive Political Conflict in The United States

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A visioning exercise yields a credible plan for significantly reducing political polarization -- with many additional benefits to individuals, organizations, and society as a whole as well.

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How Do We Get What We Want and Need? Through Polarization or Bridge-building, Reframing, and "Omni-Win" Approaches?

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Julia Roig, Lisa Schirch, Colin Rule and Duncan Autrey examine the meaning of, and the benefits and costs of polarization, and what could be done to limit the costs and improve our democracy.

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Julia Roig: Rethinking 'Polarization' as the Problem

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Polarization is good when it pushes us to change. It is toxic when it causes us to dehumanize and push away "the other." We need to sit with our conflict, explore it, and move through it together.

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