In the last decade, the field of peace-building has turned its eye toward the United States, as polarization has gotten worse, and political violence has increased. Our guest <a href="https://pc84.medium.com/a-short-story-of-my-lifes-work-a17c8d66c3d3">Peter T. Coleman </a>is a part of that movement to bring peace-building or bridge-building to Americans. Coleman is a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University, and a renowned expert on conflict resolution and sustainable peace. He first appeared on Making Peace Visible in January 2023 to discuss his book <a href="https://www.thewayoutofpolarization.com/">The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization.</a>The bad news is polarization efforts in the United States haven’t been very successful, according to an <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508827122">analysis of 77 interventions aimed at decreasing partisan animosity</a>, published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It showed that while interventions can briefly reduce animosity, their effects are small and short-lived. But Coleman’s not giving up - he's just changing tactics. In this episode, we discuss some of the most recent findings from Coleman’s lab at Columbia University Teachers’ College, which he says is part of a “<a href="https://pc84.medium.com/a-radical-new-science-of-peace-0777559a07c6">radical new science of peace</a>.” In their latest study, Coleman and colleagues focus on the media: using AI to comb through 700,000 news reports from a diverse group of 18 countries, including the United States. What they found points to a new way to understand what makes a society more peaceful –  or more polarized. LEARN MORE:Peter T. Coleman’s research lab: <a href="https://icccr.tc.columbia.edu/">The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution</a>Coleman’s Medium post on classifying peace in global media, <a href="https://pc84.medium.com/a-radical-new-science-of-peace-0777559a07c6">“A Radical New Science of Peace.”</a><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-five-percent/202503/ai-for-good-ai-finds-lasting-peace-in-unexpected-places">AI for Good? AI Finds Lasting Peace in Unexpected Places </a>in Psychology Today, by Peter T. Coleman and Larry S. Liebovitch.<a href="https://buildersmovement.org/pdc/">Take the Polarization Detox Challenge</a><a href="https://www.makingpeacevisible.org/peter-coleman">Listen to our December 2022 episode with Peter Coleman. </a><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/petertcoleman1.bsky.social">Follow Peter T. Coleman on Bluesky</a>
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