Throughout the Spring, starting April 14th until the end of June the Alliance for Peacebuilding and the U.S. Peace, Justice and Democracy Working Group is hosting a series of weekly webinars, Preventing and Reducing Conflict and Instability in the United States: Shaping What Comes Next, with leading peacebuilding and conflict prevention experts, donors, and policymakers from across the country. The series focuses on the conflict dynamics driving instability, extremism, and toxic polarization, and more importantly, the political and policy changes needed to build a society that is just, secure, and fair for all Americans.
Join us on June 30 at 2:00pm EDT for Wired for Conflict, Training for Peace: How Conflict is Hard-Wired and What We Can Do About It.
Our brains are hard-wired for antagonism and strong emotion. Social discord can seem inevitable, and often leads to social conflict. Fortunately, there are practices for meaningful communication, behavior change, and emotion and bias management available to all. Join AfP on June 30th to learn about the neuroscience of conflict and approaches for its management. Our panelists will present on the science of breaking cycles of animosity, while offering practices for developing effective communication strategies and fostering relationships.
Speakers:
Mari Fitzduff, Professor Emerita, Heller School, Brandeis University and author of Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding
Lisa Swallow, Executive Director of Crossing Party Lines, Inc and author of Yes, You CAN Talk Politics: A Workbook for Talking Across Party Lines
Michelle Barsa, Program Director, Democracy & Social Identity, Beyond Conflict
