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Amanda Ripley — Stepping out of "the zombie dance" we're in, and into "good conflict" that is, in fact, life-giving

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Single Biggest Mistake That We've Made in Public Discourse

The difficult conversations lab at Columbia University where Peter Coleman studies and his colleagues study conflict. They've hosted more than 500 strained and awkward arguments between people who disagree on profound important things like gun control, abortion, the Middle East. In those conversations people ask each other more questions and they came out of the lab more satisfied than they come in so I think that is how it feels to be in good conflict right there's a sense of movementYeah yeah that something is possible here and you can't predict exactly what it is.

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