Sitemap - 2023 - Beyond Intractability

What Happens When We Have ANOTHER Election That Both Sides Absolutely Positively Can't Afford to Lose?

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of December 17, 2023

Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 2

Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1

Envisioning a Future (Almost) Everyone Will Want to Live In

Intersectionality Can Be Beneficial to Peacebuilding: Jay Rothman

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of December 10, 2023

Is Intersectionality Dangerous or Benign? Colin Rule Weighs In.

Lisa Schirch's 5-Point Peace Plan for Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinians More Broadly + Katja Rieger's Comments

Massively Parallel Peacebuilding: A Strategy for Building a Democracy That Lives Up to Its Ideals

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of November 26, 2023

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of November 19, 2023

The Israel/Hamas War: A Perfect Storm of Complexity and Chaos

Intersectionality, Israel, and Peacebuilding: How Do They Mix?

More On the Israel/Hamas War from Contributors

The Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of November 5, 2023

Colleagues' Thoughts about the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1

Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of October 29, 2023

Julia Chaitin, Israeli Peacebuilder, on the Israeli-Gazan War

Daniel Stid Talks about Ways to Strengthen Democracy by Replacing Polarization with Pluralism

Special Edition of Colleague and Context Posts: The 2023 Israel-Hamas War

Israel, Hamas, Evil, and the Bad-faith Actor Problem

Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of October 15, 2023

Bad-Faith Actors and the Red/Blue/Gold Divide

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of October 8, 2023

Daniel Stid: Citizens’ Assemblies: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again)

Fact, Value, Lie, or Uncertainty? How Do We Tell?

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of September 17, 2023

Does the Power-With Approach Include Justice? Comments on Our Power-Over/Power-With Essay

Pro-Democracy Efforts: the Tension between Power-Over or Power-With Approaches

A Further Discussion of Dialogue

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of Sept 10, 2023

Jay Rothman on Large Scale Interventions

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of Sept 3, 2023

Daniel Stid: Four Ways To Reframe Democracy in America

Zach Elwood on the Belief that "Polarization is not the Problem"

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of August 20, 2023

More on Constructive Conflict Communication

Talking with and Listening To People on the Other Side

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of August 13, 2023

Anne Leslie: Know Thyself

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of August 6, 2023

Constructively Navigating the World of Media Bias

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 30, 2023

Jay Rothman and Daniela Cohen on the Aria Group School Intervention in Yellow Springs, Ohio

Harry Boyte and Marie-Louise Ström: Constructive Nonviolence

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 23, 2023

Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project: Modern Updates from Lum, Burgess, and Froehlich

Ted Wetzel's Disagreement Fitness

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 16, 2023

Contradictory Thoughts About Dialogue

7 More Ways to Turn Down the Heat

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of July 9, 2023

Bridging the Theory/Action Gap: One Key to Improving the Effectiveness of Efforts to Strengthen Democracy

The Key to Saving Democracy: Reducing Polarization? Promoting Justice? It Takes More Than That!

A Remarkable Effort to Do Trauma-Informed Peacebuilding Training in Ukraine Amidst Ongoing Trauma

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of June 25, 2023

Rachel Kleinfeld and Shamil Idriss on Polarization, Philanthropic Plurality, Social Justice, and Democracy

Social Justice Advocacy, Bridge-Building and Philanthropy: How Do These Intersect?

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of June 18, 2023

More Ways to Turn Down the Heat

Palma Strand: A Path Out of Polarization: The Strengthening Democracy Challenge and the Civity Storytelling Intervention

Reversing or Better Yet, Avoiding, Destructive Escalation

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of June 5, 2023

Divided Community Project: Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy

Learning More about How the TRUST Network Does Massively Parallel Peacebuilding

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of May 22

Escalation is the Most Dangerous Force on the Planet. But We Continue to Drive It

Paul Monteiro, Former Director of the Community Relations Service, Talking About How CRS Works its Magic

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of May 15

An Award for NAFCM + Conflict Mapping and Other Tools for Understanding Complex Problems

John Lande: The Importance of Really Listening – For Ourselves, Others, and Democracy

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of May 7, 2023

D.G. Mawn Talks About Community Mediation and NAFCM

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of May 1

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of April 23

ChatGPT — Can It "Listen" Better Than We Can?

Sharing Ideas From Around the Globe on Ways to Strengthen Democracy - A BI/IGN Discussion

Polarization's Toll on US Credibility, Progressives' Reverse CBT, and Other Colleague and Context Links

Our Problem Isn't "Them"

Carrie Menkel-Meadow: Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Protest

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of April 9.

The Power Strategy Mix — Empowering the Pursuit of the Common Good

Alan Yarborough: Getting to Meaning

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of April 2.

Julia Roig and James Savage: Exploring Narrative Practices for Broad-based Movements in Contexts of Democratic Decline

Helena Desivilya Syna on The Paradox of Tolerance with a response from Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess

Rachel Kleinfeld's "Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy"

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 19

Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power

Kevin Clements' "Authoritarian Populism and Atavistic Nationalism: 21st Century Challenges to Peacebuilding and Development"

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 12

Sharp vs. Fuzzy Feedback — The Distinction That Explains Why Society Can Be Both Astonishingly Smart and Incredibly Stupid

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 5

Urban Rural Action Frameworks

Focus on Contribution, Not Blame

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 26

Julia Roig Talks about Weaving a Healthy Democracy in the United States

Massively Circular Hyper-Polarization

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 19

David J. Smith: Peace is My Day Job

Conflict Core and Overlaying Issues

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 12

The Trust Network: An Example of Massively Parallel Peacebuilding in Action

Carol Pauli's "The 'End' of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require a Deeper Value"

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 5

Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective

Could Massively Parallel Processes Make Hyper-Polarization Worse?

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 29

Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat

Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 22

The Google Maps and Adopt-a-Highway Approach to Systems

From the Discussion: Kristin Hansen and the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 15

From the Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Anne Leslie on Embracing Ambiguity

Addressing the Skeptics And Moving Forward

Massively Parallel Peacebuilding/Problem Solving