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Ten Ideas on How to Overcome Polarization

Polarization is a “hyper-problem”: that special category of problem which, when present, impedes a society’s or political system’s ability to solve almost any other kind of problem.

In “Ten Ideas on How to Overcome Polarization”, Mark Freeman, IFIT’s Founder and Executive Director, and Hilary Pennington, Ford Foundation’s Executive Vice President of Programs, draw on experiences from places like Northern Ireland, Kenya, Tunisia, Colombia and beyond to outline ten practical ways to prevent or reduce polarization.

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