Sitemap - 2024 - Beyond Intractability

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of December 21, 2024

Lou Kriesberg: Applying the Constructive Conflict approach to the American Right-Wing Populism Phenomenon

The US in 2024: An Election That Worked and a Democracy That Doesn't

Marc Wong on How We Can Bring Out the Best in Others -- and Ourselves

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of December 8, 2024

Ariel Markose, the Chief Strategy Officer of Amal-Tikva, Talks About How To Do Peacebuilding in Wartime

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of November 24, 2024

Do You Want the U.S. Government to Work? Read This! And Then Do This!

Kristin Hansen: As America’s political “world series” wraps up, let’s focus on the long game + Richard Harwood Concurring Statement

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of November 17, 2024

Daniel Stid: The Meaning of Democracy in Nine Words

More Reflections from "Gail," The Israeli Peacebuilder Who Also Serves in the IDF Active Reserves -- And What that Says for U.S. Peacebuilding -- within the U.S.

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of November 10, 2024

Emma Addams and Jennifer Thomas Talk about Mormon Women for Ethical Government

“Don’t Destroy What you Want to Inherit”: Peacebuilding Holds the Key to Building a Strong United States of America

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of November 3, 2024

CORRECTED!! Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 4

Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 5

Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 4

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of October 27, 2024

Comments on Our Post Comparing Responses to October 7 to Those of September 11

Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 3

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of October 13, 2024

Could Congress Leverage AI to Help Restore Faith in US Democracy?

Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 2

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of October 6, 2024

September 11, October 7, and Our Changing Responses to Terrorism

Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 1

Caleb Christen and Vinay Orekondy Talk about the Better Together America Project

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of September 29, 2024

The Threat of Political Violence in the United States

Revisiting BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative - Part 2

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of September 22, 2024

Revisiting BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative - Part 1

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

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of September 15, 2024

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

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of September 8, 2024

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

Guy and Heidi Burgess Talk with David Eisner about Threats to Democracy and How to Address Those

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of September 1, 2024

Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 2

Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 1

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of August 18, 2024

A Potpourri Newsletter

Susan Carpenter and Heidi Burgess Reflect on Susan's 40+ Years' Experience Doing Consensus Building

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of August 11, 2024

Walt Roberts and Caleb Christen Talk about the Inter-Movement Impact Project

Massively Parallel Partisanship Revisited

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of August 4, 2024

Nealin Parker Talks about Search USA's Efforts to Reduce Polarization and Tension in the United States

Martin Carcasson Talks with Heidi and Guy Burgess about Wicked Problems, Polarization, Deliberation, and Democracy

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of July 21, 2024

Thinking about What Democracy's Winners and Losers Owe One Another

Daniel Stid: A Big Question I Have Is...

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of July 14, 2024

Mark Gerzon and Mesa Sebree -- Towards a Polycrisis Consciousness - Part 2

Mark Gerzon and Mesa Sebree -- Towards a Polycrisis Consciousness - Part 1

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of July 7, 2024

Reflections on the 4th of July (U.S. Independence Day)

More responses to Friends and Family + Democracy Subversion from Rosa Zubizarreta

Democracy Lighthouse, Practitioner Mobilization, and More on Communicating with Friends and Family

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of June 23, 2024

Democratic Subversion - Part 2

Democratic Subversion - Part 1

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of June 9, 2024

Talking with Friends and Family about the Election

Peter Coleman: The Great Reset

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of June 2, 2024

Guy and Heidi Burgess's Thoughts on Memorial Day and Louis Kriesberg on Seeing a Way Out of The Gaza War

Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 4

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of May 19, 2024

Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 3

Crisis, Contradiction, Certainty, and Contempt

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 28, 2024

Attack the Problem, Not the People

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 21, 2024

Don't Take the "Hate Bait!"

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 14, 2024

Become Part of the Solution

Knife Edge Elections, the 51% Hammer Strategy, Hatemongering, and Scapegoating

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 7, 2024

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 2

Lorelei Kelly on Strengthening Democracy at the Top and the Bottom

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of March 24, 2024

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 1

Anne Leslie: Slurps, Sulks, and Family History: Do You Care Enough to Argue?

Heidi Burgess Talks With James Coan about Taking De-Polarization Work "to Scale."

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 17, 2024

Gaza, Ukraine, Increasing Global Tensions, and the Nature of War

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 10, 2024

Bari Weiss: What it Means to Choose Freedom, Supplemented by Franklin Foer

Bill Froehlich Talks about the Ohio State Divided Community Project

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of March 3, 2024

Reconciliation "Pieces" - Parts 2, 3 and 4: Truth, Mercy, and Peace

Talking Peacebuilding and Democracy with Ashok Panikkar and Guy and Heidi Burgess

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 25, 2024

Lou Kriesberg, Deborah Laufer, and Ashok Panikkar: Thoughts About a Hopeful Future for Israel/Palestine and the Dark Reality That Stands in the Way

Peter Coleman on The Way Out of Polarization and Intractability

Talking Race and Democracy with Grande Lum

Reader Responses on the Israel/Hamas War and Reconciliation and Justice

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February11, 2024

Elements of Reconciliation — Part 1: Justice

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 4, 2024

More Comments on Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees

Ken Cloke: Free Speech on Campus: What Colleges and Universities Can Do - And Lorelie Kelly on How Universities Can Strengthen our Democratic System

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 28, 2024

More Reader Comments On Israel and Intractable Identity Conflicts more Broadly

Anne Leslie: Why Hope Dies Last...and Why I Stopped Being an Optimist

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 21, 2023

The Israeli / Hamas War: Understanding the Larger "Larger Context" - Part 2

The Israeli / Hamas War: Understanding the Larger "Larger Context" - Part 1

Martin Luther King from a Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Perspective

Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 14, 2023

Does the Concept of Ripeness Apply to the Israel/Hamas War?

Deborah Laufer and Katja Rieger on Peacebuilding, Israel/Hamas, and Future Visioning

CORRECTED Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 7, 2023

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

Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees: The Nature of Peace and Peacebuilding in a Collectivist and Illiberal World

U.S. Election BI in Context Posts for January 3, 2023

A New Year's Gift from Jay Rothman: 31 Definitions of Peace and You