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10 Jun 2016 – This Status Update outlines continuing MOOS "beta" test plans and explains an ongoing pause in the seminars to allow for the upgrade of the underlying computer system.
7 Apr 2016 – Complexity-oriented approaches to conflict are more like medicine and less like engineering.
5 Apr 2016 – An exploration of how an understanding of ecodynamics and evolution an help us deal with complex conflict.
29 Mar 2016 – Simple models won't work! We need to develop conflict intervention models for higher level complex, systems.
24 Mar 2016 – Intractable conflicts are complex adaptive systems, so they need complex, adaptive responses.
21 Mar 2016 – If your backlash coefficient is more than one, your cause cannot be won! Learn why!

Learning Community News

1 Oct 2016 – Global support for diversity is surprisingly thin. We need models for diverse societies that account for this.
1 Oct 2016 – New Stiglitz book explains what it will really take to fix inequality. A big challenge for consensus builders!
30 Sep 2016 – A reminder: voting blocks are not monolithic. Within-group differences are as big as between-group differences.
30 Sep 2016 – A really terrific overview and great graphic highlighting the many ways that cognitive biases affect our thinking.
29 Sep 2016 – Another problem for US democracy, the vast majority of elections are uncontested. Your vote really doesn't matter!
29 Sep 2016 – Another persuasive analysis of the way in which US society is repolarizing and Trump's surprising strength.

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I have invented something which...I have been calling "Senesh's Law" -- That if you can't teach it to the second grade it probably isn't true.

- Kenneth Boulding

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

- Winston Churchill

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell