Mark Gerzon of the Bridge Alliance on finding a 3rd political narrative
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View ArticleHow Dialogue and Listening lead to Common Ground from Project Citizen’s...
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog CivilPolitics’ mission is to educate the public on evidence-based methods for improving inter-group dialogue, with evidence defined broadly to include...
View ArticleObservations across Transpartisan Organizations from David Nevins
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog CivilPolitics’ mission is to educate the public on evidence-based methods for improving inter-group dialogue, with evidence defined broadly to include...
View ArticlePsychological Patterns evident in Reactions to the Iran Nuclear Deal
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Whether the deal that has been reached will or will not stop Iran from getting nuclear bomb is a question better left for experts in atomic energy and...
View ArticlePondering Your Internal Conflicts May Help You Stereotype Others Less
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Recently, Chadly Stern and Tali Kleinman (of NYU and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), published a paper in Social Psychological and Personality...
View ArticleLessons from 25 Years Bridging Divides at the Public Conversations Project
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Israeli Restaurant Hummus Bar shows a path forward to peace
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Sometimes it seems like it is only the extremists seeking to pull people further apart that make news, so it was heartening to see this story of an...
View ArticleDiversity in political opinion leads to better policy
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Both in my academic and industry work, I work a lot on crowdsourcing answers, as multiple sources of information are inevitably going to lead to...
View ArticleOn Trust, Conversation, & Relationships from the Institute for American...
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View ArticleIncreasing Reconciliation through the Acceptance of Apologies by one’s own group
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Human beings are incredibly social animals, being one of the few species that cooperates in groups of thousands, and the only one that cooperates...
View ArticleClearerThinking.org Provides Online Tools to help people Challenge their own...
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Arthur Brooks Suggests that Warm-hearted Relationships and Collective Focus...
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Arthur Brooks is the President of a think tank that promotes the benefits of capitalism from an economically conservative point of view. He recently...
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Those who want a fight, like Trump and ISIS, do indeed benefit from each other.
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog During the recent Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton stated that Donald Trump has become a lead recruiter for ISIS. I can’t speak to the accuracy of...
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The Village Square Helps Liberals Understand that Conservatives are indeed...
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog One of the things that we do at Civil Politics is help organizations conduct program evaluations as part of an effort to understand how the academic...
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How to Make Real Progress Against Trump’s Incivility
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog I haven’t written much about Trump, who has taken “incivility” to new heights this election season, in part because there is no evidence that telling...
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Bridging the Divide Between Religious Liberty and Marriage Equality
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog I was recently invited to a small gathering of individuals on both sides of the marriage equality vs. religious liberty debate. These issues aren’t...
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Helping People Sympathize with both Cops and Minorities
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog When bad things happen, there is a natural psychological tendency to spread blame around. Consider this piece of psychological research from Joshua...
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Bridging the Divide between Sensitivity to Minorities and Free Speech
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog While we often study issues related to bridging divisions between liberals and conservatives, there are many issues that aren’t quite as clear cut. We...
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Civil Politics on Science Friday and Peace Talks Radio
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog For those of you looking for a break from the everyday partisanship that characterizes this election season, you can catch Civil Politics on 2 recent...
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American Democracy as a Shared Goal that Unites Liberals and Conservatives
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog One of our main evidence-based recommendations is to try to find common goals when seeking to unite groups that have a moral conflict. Recently, two...
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