Beyond Intractability
Heidi and Guy BurgessFree updates about BI’s exploration of strategies for more constructively handling all types of intractable conflict, including the hyper-polarized, political conflicts that are tearing society apart.
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Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of October 4, 2026
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First, a note about our last newsletter, John Lande’s AI News and Analysis Tool. We got notes from several readers challenging John’s list of “high-quality sources,” pointing out consistent left-wing bias in a number of them....
John Lande's AI News and Analysis Tool
Newsletter # 495 - October 6, 2026
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John Lande shared this with us recently, and we thought it was a very useful way to use AI help make sense of the otherwise daunting news stream that comes across our screens and...
Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of September 27, 2026
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Superpower Conflict
America Has Forfeited Its Greatest Strength — Osama bin Laden wanted to eradicate faith in American power. Twenty-five years later, his dream is on the verge of coming true. -
Corruption
MAGA Is...
Democracy's "Meeting Place"
Newsletter 493 - Sept 28, 2026
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As intractable conflicts worldwide seems to be spiraling out of control at an alarming rate, we thought it would be good to share again (we wrote about it three years ago also) what...
And Now We Are Having ANOTHER Election that Both Sides Believe They Absolutely, Positively, Must Win!
Newsletter 492 - Sept 24, 2026
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History on Repeat
Six years ago, in 2020, (before we were on Substack) we wrote a newsletter post entitled “What Happens When We Have an Election That Both Sides Absolutely Posi...
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The Burgesses are Ph.D. social scientists who have studied intractable conflict for 40+ years. They co-direct the Conflict Information Consortium and its underlying projects, Beyond Intractability and the Constructive Conflict Initiative.
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