loppear reviewed High Conflict by Amanda Ripley
impractically useful?
3 stars
Organized around several individuals' stories of intractable conflict (in local politics in California, in gang violence in Chicago, in post-rebel Colombia, in cultural exchange between US political factions) to relate to larger and smaller familiar scenes of us-vs-them in-group out-group binary simplification goaded by those who benefit from the conflict. For those looking for an answer to the larger problems, it is the same as for the smaller: active listening and complicating the narrative to give space and time for new perspectives. Yep.
Organized around several individuals' stories of intractable conflict (in local politics in California, in gang violence in Chicago, in post-rebel Colombia, in cultural exchange between US political factions) to relate to larger and smaller familiar scenes of us-vs-them in-group out-group binary simplification goaded by those who benefit from the conflict. For those looking for an answer to the larger problems, it is the same as for the smaller: active listening and complicating the narrative to give space and time for new perspectives. Yep.
