Sitemap - 2023 - Beyond Intractability
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 12
Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 5
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
Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 15
From the Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Anne Leslie on Embracing Ambiguity