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Listen To and Talk With (not to) the Other Side

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Even ifyou think you know what the other side thinks, you likely don't--and they don't know you either.

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Even ifyou think you know what the other side thinks, you likely don't--and they don't know you either.

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Try Collaboration First!

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If we dig below positions, we often can collaborate with "our enemies" to the benefit of all.

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If we dig below positions, we often can collaborate with "our enemies" to the benefit of all.

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Pick Your Fights--Let Things Go When You Can

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Fights cost lots and may be lost! If you can live and let live, it is often much better for all.

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Fights cost lots and may be lost! If you can live and let live, it is often much better for all.

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Mapping the Authoritarian Populism "Conflict Complex," an Overview

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Meeting the challenge of authoritarian populism will require a sophisticated understanding of "who is fighting who over what."

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Meeting the challenge of authoritarian populism will require a sophisticated understanding of "who is fighting who over what."

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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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