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Conflict Frontiers Seminar 1 -- Understanding the Intractable Conflict Problem

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Destructive dynamics associated with intractable conflict are as big a threat as climate change. Find out why!

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Destructive dynamics associated with intractable conflict are as big a threat as climate change. Find out why!

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Conflict Frontiers Seminar 2 -- Pushing the Frontier: the Limits of Business-as-Usual Approaches

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More of the same isn't enough--we need new approaches to successfully address intractable conflicts.

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More of the same isn't enough--we need new approaches to successfully address intractable conflicts.

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Conflict Frontiers Seminar 3 -- Introduction to Complexity and "Systems Thinking": Theoretical Antecedents

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Nests, cycles, attractors, and paradigms -- new ways of thinking about conflict and its resolution.

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Nests, cycles, attractors, and paradigms -- new ways of thinking about conflict and its resolution.

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Conflict Frontiers Seminar 4 -- Moving Toward a Complexity-Oriented Paradigm

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We need a new strategy tailored to intractable conflict's gigantic, tangled web of causes and consequences.

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We need a new strategy tailored to intractable conflict's gigantic, tangled web of causes and consequences.

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Conflict Frontiers Seminar 5 -- Introduction to Massively Parallel Peacebuilding (MPP)

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While there is no simple way to "resolve" intractable conflicts, a complexity-oriented approach can make them less destructive.

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While there is no simple way to "resolve" intractable conflicts, a complexity-oriented approach can make them less destructive.

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Conflict Frontiers Seminar 6--Figuring Out What Is Going On (MPP Challenge 1)

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Widespread, and overly simplistic, "us vs. them" ways of thinking about conflict underlies much of its destructiveness.

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Widespread, and overly simplistic, "us vs. them" ways of thinking about conflict underlies much of its destructiveness.

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Using the MPP Action List: The Authoritarian Populism Example (Part I)

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How can populist revolts address the real failures of establishment elites without falling victim to authoritarian temptations?

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How can populist revolts address the real failures of establishment elites without falling victim to authoritarian temptations?

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Using the MPP Action List: The Authoritarian Populism Example (Part II)

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Find out what you can do to strengthen democracy while reducing the risk of authoritarianism.

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Find out what you can do to strengthen democracy while reducing the risk of authoritarianism.

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Mapping the Continuum between Democracy and Authoritarianism

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Like the proverbial frog in hot water, democracies have been sliding toward authoritarianism with too few people recognizing the danger.

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Like the proverbial frog in hot water, democracies have been sliding toward authoritarianism with too few people recognizing the danger.

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The Red/Blue Cultural Divide

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The evolutionary, neurobiological foundation of the cultural divide requires approaching it with mutual tolerance and respect.

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The evolutionary, neurobiological foundation of the cultural divide requires approaching it with mutual tolerance and respect.

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