The Global Initiative on Polarization is a multiyear collaboration launched in 2022 by IFIT and the Ford Foundation and now expanding to include additional funding partners, such as the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Templeton World Charity Foundation and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Over the past few years, we have carried out interdisciplinary research, structured convenings, and applied work in a highly diverse range of countries, along the way publishing a foundational paper as well as partnering with Economist Impact to produce a customized web page of additional material. 

We are now launching an important new phase of work through the establishment of the Depolarization Community of Practice (DCP): a diverse global group of 40+ depolarization scholars and practitioners with the aim of incubating new research agendas and practice collaborations; providing training and peer support; and facilitating the promotion of field-relevant lessons through periodic online exchanges and presentations. 

The DCP will be directly connected to another major IFIT initiative: the Global Forum on Depolarization. This annual flagship IFIT event is a first of its kind and will have a combined knowledge-sharing and problem-solving format, seeking to function, among other things, as a “conveyor belt” for innovative new practice and research. The first edition of the Global Forum on Depolarization will take place at IFIT HQ in Barcelona this fall.

• Read more about our Global Initiative on Polarization here.

• Watch the video “The path to depolarization”.