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Responses and Related Comments on the Fourth of July

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of July 6, 2025

The 4th of July, a Time to Celebrate — Or Not?

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of June 22, 2025

Richard Harwood Talks With Heidi Burgess About His "New Civic Path"

An Entreaty: An excerpt from The New Civic Path: Restoring Our Belief in One Another and Our Nation by Richard C. Harwood

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of June 15, 2025

Comments on Our Webinar with Ashok Panikkar on "Whither Peacebuilding"

Bridge-Building in Times of Hyper-Polarization: An ACR-EPP Webinar

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of June 1, 2025

Ashok Panikkar, Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess Discuss: Whither Peacebuilding? Is There Life After USAID and USIP?

Kenneth Boulding's First Law: If It Exists (or Has Been Done), It Must Be Possible

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of May 18, 2025

Every Problem Creates an Opportunity to Develop Something New and Better

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of May 11, 2025

Better Together America: Another Example of Massively Parallel Democracy Building at Work

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of May 4, 2025

Things to Think About -- Alone and Together - Part 2

Things to Think About -- Alone and Together - Part 1

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of April 27, 2025

Daniel Stid: Competitive Authoritarianism Comes for Civil Society

Harry Boyte and the Burgesses on Thinking Politically

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of April 20, 2025

Responsibilities of Bridgers -- And The Rest of Us

Predicting a "Rule-of-Law" Crisis?

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of April 13, 2025

Harry Boyte On Nonviolence Training and Effective Nonviolent Action

David Eisner's P.S. -- Are Trump's Moves -- and the Results -- Controlled Burns or Out-of-Control Wildfires?

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of March 30, 2025

Part 2 of the Burgess's Answer to Ashok Panikkar's Questions about Hyperpolarization and Today's World

USIP, CRS, and FMCS and Responding to Ashok Panikkar's Question about Hyper-Polarization

Heidi and Guy Burgess Talk with Tom Klaus and Lamar Roth in their "Third Space" - Part 2

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of March 23, 2025

Responses to Fiddling While Rome Burns - Part 2

Responses to: Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns? - Part 1

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of March 16, 2025

Can we lower toxic polarization while still opposing Trump?

Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns?

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of March 2, 2025

James Coan and Katie Hyten on Scaling Up Dialogue and Other Forms of Interpersonal Communication to Bridge Political Divides

Lou Kriesberg's "For All the People" and Related Thoughts About Paths Forward for the U.S.

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of February 23, 2025

The Engineering and Medical Approaches to Fixing Broken Systems

Rosa Zubizarreta-Ada: Transformative Power and Empathic Connection: Changing Contexts, Generating Inclusive Mindsets

Heidi and Guy Burgess Talk with Tom Klaus and Lamar Roth in their "Third Space"

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of February 9, 2025

Daniel Stid -- PS: Three Further Reflections on "Pluralism in the Trump Era"

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

Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of February 2, 2025

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

Daniel Stid: Top Down Democratic Decline vs. Bottom Up Civic Renewal: 8 Working Hypotheses

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of January 26, 2025

Potpourri Newsletter #2

Harry Boyte Talks with Heidi Burgess about the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the Lessons it Can Teach Us

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of January 12, 2025 -- Part 2

Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of January 12, 2025

Representative Derek Kilmer on the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress and De-polarization

A Reasonable Peace: Can Critical Thinking Save the Field of Peacebuilding?