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High Conflict
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High Conflict

Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

Amanda Ripley
Simon & Schuster, 2021

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Conflict among people is inevitable and often valuable. But only healthy conflict leads humanity to a better future. In this engaging text, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley explores the toxic landscape of “high conflict” – disputes that reach an intractable state of binary opposition. Using examples from the lives of a lawyer-mediator turned politician, a gang leader turned peacemaker and many others, the author outlines the systemic nature of high conflict, its damaging characteristics, and the techniques and strategies that can help individuals and groups break free of the high conflict trap.

Take-Aways

  • “High conflict” is paradoxical: People are powerfully drawn to it, but yearn deeply to escape it.
  • Binaries drive high conflict, and high conflict exacerbates binaries.
  • Group identity can promote high conflict, yet cooperation is an essential building block of peace.

About the Author

As an investigative journalist, Amanda Ripley writes for The Atlantic and many other periodicals. She is the author of two other books: The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way and The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why.

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