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Challenging "Bad-Faith" Actors Who Seek to Amplify and Exploit Our Conflicts

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As an introduction to a series of three videos that we will be posting this week on the "Bad-Faith Actor" problem, a look at how this fits into the larger problem of how to more constructively handle intractable conflict. #mbi_frontiers

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Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 5: Take Advantage of Opportunities for Mutually-Beneficial Joint Actions

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Even when conflicts are stalemated, some common ground is likely to give disputants a toe-hold onto transformation. #mbi_fundamentals

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Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 4: Leveling the Playing Field

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Equalizing power actually helps both the powerful and the powerless, as it makes negotiation and mutually-beneficial outcomes possible for all. #mbi_fundamentals

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Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 3: Develop a Unifying Vision for Society

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Small groups can use the tools of large groups to develop consensus visions of their future relationship--often with even more success. #mbi_fundamentals

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Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 2: Promote Effective Communication

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By first listening, and second speaking in respectful and surprisingly "reasonable" ways, people can de-escalate conflicts and begin to work on reconciliation. #mbi_fundamentals

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Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 1: De-escalate Destructive Us-versus-Them Confrontations

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Reframing us-vesus them, conciliatory gestures, and using the optimal power strategy mix are several approaches that can further reconciliation. #mbi_fundamentals

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A Guide to More Constructive Approaches to Intractable Conflict

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A Introduction to a five-part strategy for overcoming the conflict problems that are preventing us from building a society in which we would all like to live. #mbi_frontiers

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The King Soopers Shooting: This Time It Was Personal

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Motivated by a mass shooting in our community, we've spent the last week thinking about how our insights into the intractable conflict problem can help. #mbi_cci

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Saving Democracy and Biden’s Challenge to the Conflict and Peacebuilding Fields – Part 2

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Democracy is a system for wisely, equitably, and nonviolently managing conflicts between people with deep cultural differences who are also in continuing competition for scarce resources.

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Saving Democracy and Biden’s Challenge to the Conflict and Peacebuilding Fields – Part I

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An exploration of what we need to do to bend the arc of history back toward peace and democracy and away from autocracy, problem-solving paralysis, and civil strife.

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