Featured Topic Area: Massively Parallel Peacebuilding
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While a huge undertaking, similar efforts have succeeded before. MPP can too!
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Featured Topic Area: Scale, Complexity, and Intractability
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We can't just do more of the same, but better, with intractable conflicts. We need a complexity-based approach.
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Full Constructive Conflict Statement with MBI Links
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While we have much to learn, there is also much we know about addressing complexity and intractability.
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Constructive Conflict Statement -- Summary
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A short explanation of why intractable conflict is an unrecognized "existential threat" and what to do about that.
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We All Have a Role to Play In Promoting More Constructive Conflict
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We ALL need a much better understanding of how we can confront conflicts constructively.
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Destructive Conflict is the Most Serious Threat to Our Common Future
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Intractable conflict is preventing us from solving any of our most pressing problems. We must learn how to deal with it constructively!
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The Intractable Conflict Challenge
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It is up to each and every one of us to stop conflict from destroying the things that matter to us most. Learn how!
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Factual Disputes
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An overview of the many kinds of disputes over facts that arise in conflicts--and what to do about them. Although getting worse, this problem isn't new!
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Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 2: “Hate Bait,” Framing, and Escalation
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Find out how you can combat the destructive conflict dynamics that are making the left/right divide so intractable.
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Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Action List
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The ten challenges of MPP are daunting, but there is a role here for everyone.
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The ten challenges of MPP are daunting, but there is a role here for everyone.
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