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Join us for a conversation with Tim Phillips, Founder and CEO, Beyond Conflict and Scott Warren, CEO, Generation Citizen and a Visiting Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. The evening’s moderator is Michal Ben-Joseph Hirsch, Assistant Professor, Political Science & Legal Studies Department, Suffolk University.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Live at 7:00 pm
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Deepening toxic polarization in the United States is a profound threat to the American people and the very core of American democracy. After 30 years of working around the globe to bring peace and reconciliation to deeply divided societies, Beyond Conflict launched an unprecedented research project in 2018, the Beyond Conflict Polarization Index™, with leading brain and behavioral scientists to assess the psychological factors that fuel polarization. The study found a consistent pattern across measures: Americans incorrectly believe that members of the other party dehumanize, dislike, and disagree with them about twice as much as they actually do. These false perceptions about the other side are correlated with outcomes that are consequential for democracy and represent a new degree of toxic polarization in America.
Using the unique approach of shared experience, Phillips has helped catalyze the peace and reconciliation processes in several nations, including Northern Ireland, El Salvador, and South Africa. Now leading initiatives in the U.S., Phillips will present the key findings of Beyond Conflict’s study. Warren’s organization, Generation Citizen, is one of the preeminent civics education organizations in the country, promoting Action Civics across diverse geographies through best-in-class programming and concrete policy change.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event unlike any other experienced in the contemporary era. Its size, scope, reach, and implications are enormous, ongoing, and unequal. Outcomes-from how people all over the world will live their daily lives to whether democracy will survive-are all in question.
Come into our virtual classroom to delve deeper into the pandemic-related themes we will explore in this survey course for everyone.
The pandemic has raised anew issues in which policy makers must address several key tensions: privacy, individual rights and the public’s right to know; individual freedom versus quarantine; who is liable when coronavirus is contracted. At a time when we are discussing freedom and individual rights, the protests over the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others have raised America’s “other pandemic” — the long history of racism, discrimination, and the denial of basic rights and freedoms to minorities living in the United States.m,
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How will the pandemic impact elections in 2020?
Monday May 11th at 7pm
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As a former speaker, I have seen first hand the good the Forum contributes to our society. Venues like the Ford Hall Forum allow people to gain a more complete understanding of the world the live in and the neighbors they live with. Additionally, because the speaker series is free and open to the public, it is a great example of inclusiveness.
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What is the real story on how Americans suffer such economic inequality? Is it true that the rich are getting richer within a system rigged the in their favor? If so, is wealth redistribution the answer? Or are we experiencing a cultural shift in which success is punished, and the “solutions” to inequality serve only to widen the gap?
Jim Stergios of the Pioneer Institute moderates a fantastic debate between Ayn Rand Institute Executive Director Yaron Brook and Beacon Hill Institute Senior Economist Jonathan Haughton on whether economic equality is a fair concept.
