High Conflict

Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

hardcover, 368 pages

Published April 6, 2021 by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
9781982128562

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3 stars (1 review)

2 editions

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.