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A collection of stories, reflections, and wisdom offering insight into the challenge of facing down toxic polarization layered with violence and the surprising ways everyday people found to shift harmful patterns of violence that had lasted decades. 

The prelude to Oumar Farouk Sesay's book of poetry entitled The Edge of a Cry.

An analytical and descriptive exploration of a pyramid model to capture the overview of how an entire affected population in a setting of internal armed conflict is represented by leaders and other actors, as well as the roles they play in navigating the situation.

Reflections shared with the On Being community following the 6 January insurrection.

A story of mediation and poetic friendship between a warlord and a professor that led to the talks that ended the Tajik civil war.

A chart illustrating cultural expectations across stages of mediation along a spectrum from "pure formal" to "pure informal."