An AfP webinar discussing the ways structural racism contributes to the current state of affairs in our country and how we can move toward justice, peace, and reconciliation.

The Horizons Project is joining forces with funders, researchers, and movement leaders to develop narrative competencies that can be used to strengthen democracies and combat rising authoritarianism.

Ninety ideas for correcting inaccurate stereotypes, appealing to common identities, role modeling, strengthening political leadership, highlighting the threat, modifying social media, etc.

An AFP panel looking at how the Left contributes to toxic polarization with Erica Etelson, author of Beyond Contempt with Debilyn Molineaux from the Bridge Alliance, and Steve House with Braver Angels.

The first of a series of webinars held by the Alliance for Peacebuilding examining the need for and methods for doing peacebuilding in the United States.

A report on the events leading up to and following Jan. 6 show that patterns of behavior exhibited that day were established long before that date.

In high conflict the focus becomes on "the other" not the substantive issue in dispute. This is very dangerous, but in this seminal article Amanda Ripley discusses the "ways out."

From Peter Coleman, a colleague with a long history of research into the problems posed by complexity and intractability, thoughts about how to escape our current predicament.

From The Atlantic, a report on a massive, crowd-sourced effort to find and then test mass audience-based strategies for diffusing our hyper-polarized politics

A discussion between Duncan Audrey and Benjamin Life discussing why the U.S.'s two-party system doesn't work, and what might be done about that.

This report illustrates the benefits of including a broader array of voices in determining needs among residents of rural communities.

Case studies illustrating the many ways that Etholo has been applied to reach consensus solutions to tricky problems.

A guide for participants in the National Week of Conversation; this can also be used by others wanting to have a productive conversation with people across differences.

From the president of FairVote, a report on efforts to help defuse hyper-polarization and promote collaborative democracy by encouraging the switch to Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).

An impressive effort to make what goes on in the largely hidden world of social media-based political advertising visible.

Working to improve our elections to elect leaders who will really represent us.

A Mediators Beyond Borders initiative to enhance social movements and communities to engage in conflict constructively.

Healthy Democracy is a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that designs and coordinates innovative deliberative democracy programs

Ethelo is a "digital democracy platform" that helps organizations come to consensus solutions after involving many stakeholders in an online deliberative process.

An annual online event matching 1000s of people across the political divide to talk, listen, learn and act together. Last held April 24-30, 2022.

How do we embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems?

Another "if it being done it must be possible" story -- an extensive collection of resources explaining how people are successfully collaborating despite deep differences.

For those wanting to help strengthen democracy by strengthening civic education, a report on where things now stand.

A second essay on ways in which a mass movement for strengthening democracy might be established.

“Keystone habits” have the power to start a chain reaction, changing other habits as they move through an organization or system. They can jump start collaboration.