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Summary of Lisa Schirch: Transforming the Colour of US Peacebuilding: Types of Dialogue to Protect and Advance Multi-racial Democracy

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A summary of an article focused on how peacebuilding dialogue and the movement for social justice should be complementary, not at odds with each other. 

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Ken Cloke: Mediation in a Time of Crisis

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The introduction to Ken Cloke's latest book focused on the many concurrent crises facing the United States and the world. It demonstrates compellingly how our only way out is through collaboration.

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Neal Kohatsu: For Less Divisiveness, We Need More Humility

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Kohatsu suggests we follow Adam Grant's "rethinking cycle" -- a progression through humility, doubt, curiosity, and discovering, circling back to humility.

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Jack Williams: Reaching out Within and Beyond the Classroom

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The President of the Institute for Global Negotiation shares his thoughts on how the education system writ large can help entire societies learn and use better conflict resolution techniques.

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Richard Rubenstein: Talking Sense about "the Next American Civil War"

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We should work to avoid inflaming the “all or nothing” consciousness that often leads in the direction of civil violence, and focus, instead, on our real enemy--the capitalist structure of wealth and power.

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Jay Rothman: The Reflexive Mediator

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A summary of Jay Rothman's 2014 Negotiation Journal article in which Jay suggests mediators cannot be neutral, but they can be reflexive and use "disciplined bias" to reach resolution.

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James Adams: A Cautionary Tale for a Polarizing America and the World

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An excerpted version of James Adams's reflection on the similarities between the United States and war-torn and post-war countries abroad where he has served as a peacebuilder. 

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Large-Scale Violence

Not a False Flag, a More Effective Strategy for Fighting Oppression: the Burgesses Respond to Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer

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The conversation between Jackie, Bernie, and the Burgesses is a good example of the blind man and the elephant parable. We all need to look at the whole elephant!

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Introducing a Discussion with Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font-Guzmán about Hyper-Polarization, Neutrality, and Oppression

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Is America's core problem hyper-polarization or oppression? Which is the cause and which is the effect? What does this imply about how we address both?

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