Community-based solutions won’t solve the problems of extremism, but they can help to mitigate violent conflict.
Shared action is the key to reducing political polarisation, but how to make it happen?
If all we do is fight, we won’t be able to forge coalitions that are broad, deep and strong enough to confront our biggest problems.
Lots of projects are looking for common ground across political divides, but are they working?
This tendency is crucial to political polarisation, but what lies behind it?
Shannon Martinez was a neo-Nazi. Now she helps other far-right extremists follow her back to civil society.
Human psychology and institutional incentives are powerful barriers to truth and reason, but both can be addressed.
If we want to live in a democracy, we have to reach compromises that make everyone feel secure.
Political differences won’t disappear, but we can do a much better job of working with and through them.
Consensus decision-making offers a route out of the Brexit mess. We know it works because we’ve tried it.
What might happen if activists and non-activists could see that they have more in common than they think?
We need ways to build healthier relationships with people who have perspectives different from our own.
