From political polarization to gang violence: High conflict and how to free yourself from it

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Rebroadcast: Investigative journalist Amanda Ripley wanted to understand the sources of human conflict. So she studied it for more than four years. She detected a strong pattern to the most intractable conflicts, big and small. She found it in divorces, gang violence and political polarization. From the personal to the tribal, we discuss high conflict, and how to pull free of it. Amanda Ripley, Curtis Toler and Jack Beatty join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:53.4	Going through a divorce situation and I have to tell you,
0:58.4	that is the most difficult sort of conflict I've ever dealt with.
1:03.2	If you happen to step into somebody's plan mind, then watch out.
1:09.7	Drive a part of the tribe or you're not.
1:13.6	You are automatically perceived as having the gender when you do not.
1:20.2	It's awfully, awfully difficult and I don't know how you de-escalate that thing.
1:25.7	That thing is conflict, not just minor day to day differences,
1:30.6	but conflict in its extreme form, intractable, seemingly insoluble.
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