PRESS COVERAGE OF DR. PETER T. COLEMAN’S WORK INTHE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS LAB , THE WAY OUT, AND THE POLARIZATION DETOX CHALLENGE


'It's time to be very afraid': A conversation with Peter Coleman

8/13/2024

'It's time to be very afraid': A conversation with Peter Coleman by Greg Berman

8/12/2024

The Extraordinary Power of Dialogue + - Of Hearing and Being Heard

7/20/2024

Semana: “La promesa de Petro de acabar el ELN en tres meses fue solo estrategia política”, dice Peter Coleman, profesor de la Universidad de Columbia

6/1/2024


Una Mirada Al Mundo: Peter Coleman Habla Sobre la Polarización Tóxica

5/30/2024


El Espectador: ¿En qué momento podemos decir que estamos frente a una polarización tóxica y no simplemente un disenso “normal”, creativo o incluso revolucionario?

5/22/2024


The Way Out in Colombia

5/21/2024


Love in Action: How to End Toxic Political Polarization with Peter Coleman

5/18/2023


Better Conflict Bulletin: Three Perspectives on the Campus Protests – BCB #100

5/10/2024


Whatsjust presents Critical Conversations: Creating Safety in Conflict with Peter T. Coleman

5/5/2024


Derate the Hate: How to Detox from Toxic Political Polarization with Julian Adorney and Peter Coleman

3/27/2024


Hidden Brain: US 2.0: Living With Our Differences

2/13/2024


Talking Intractability, Polarization and Ways Out with Peter Coleman

2/2/2024


The Hopeful Majority with Manu Meel: Divided States of America?

1/22/2024


Outrage 29 – How Outrage Addiction Hijacked Our Conversations: Peter Coleman

1/3/2024


PEW: Beyond Polarization: Finding a Way Forward - Feat. Peter Coleman

12/15/2023


Seeking Peace Pathways Facing Calamity

12/2/2023


Listen Now: November 22nd (Feat. How to have Difficult Conversations at the Dinner Table this Thanksgiving)

Segment begins 7 minutes and 29 seconds in

11/22/2023


Seeking Peace Pathways Facing Calamity

11/16/2023


The Corrymeela Podcast,

Season 2, Episode 12

11/10/2023


Intractable Conflict

11/10/2023


Beyond Polarization: Where We Are Today

11/3/2023


The War on College Campuses

11/2/2023


Conflict, Resolution, and the Human Need to Get Along

10/22/2023


The Way Out: Overcoming Toxic Polarization, with Dr. Peter T. Coleman

9/28/2023


You Might be Able to Do Something about Political Polarization

10/24/2023


Day of Peace Keynote speaker, Dr. Peter Coleman

9/20/2023


Courageous Political Efforts to Combat Polarization

8/26/2023


Whatchamacolumn: Political Courage to Fight Polarization

8/25/2023


Building Bridges Amid Division: Understanding America's Conflict Dynamics

8/17/2023


The Exhausted Majority in the Middle are the People Who are Tired of Hate

7/11/2023


Combating Polarization and Charting a Way Forward

7/5/2023


Escape Away From Polarization

6/28/2023


Can We Learn to Talk to Each Other?

6/27/2023


Political Division in America

6/1/2023


How to End Political Polarization

5/18/2023


Indivisible: New Approaches to Polarization

4/20/2023


How to Overcome Toxic Polarization in Schools with Peter Coleman

4/11/2023


#ListenFirst Friday FTWO

3/16/2023


The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization with Dr. Peter Coleman

3/1/2023


The Way Out of Polarization

1/31/2023


Ending toxic polarization starts with you

1/11/2023


A Conversation About Difficult Conversations

1/5/2023


Thanksgiving table conversations can get tense. Here’s how to prepare.

11/22/2022


Overcoming Political Polarization on Thanksgiving

11/22/2022


【提言】紛争を解決するエキスパートが実践した「5つの方法」Five Ways Practiced by Experts in Resolving Conflicts

11/14/2022


How to talk politics at the Thanksgiving dinner table

11/13/2022


US Midterms 2022: Talking about Polarization

11/9/2022


Making Friends with Political Opponents Doesn’t Improve Support for Democracy

10/31/2022


How Do We Deal With the Polarization Around Climate Change?

9/23/2022


Recurring 'Shark Tank' entrepreneur Daniel Lubetzky launches movement to combat culture wars: 'Starts with Us'

6/29/2022


Roanoke Collaboration Project,

The Roanoke Times

6/26/2022


How to Argue about Abortion by Adam Grant

6/26/2022


Ideological Complexity: The Key to Depolarizing America by Ryan Nakade

5/29/2022


The Great Battlefield Podcast

5/27/2022


Civic List 2 Part Interview

5/18/2022


DR. PETER COLEMAN DISCUSSES THE NATION'S PROGRESSION TO "TOXIC POLARIZATION" AND HOW WE CAN BEGIN TO BREAK THE CYCLE

5/16/2022


S2 E13: Finding Our Way Out of Toxic Polarization

5/9/2022


Bridging our divides with Peter Coleman on Wednesday's Access Utah

4/13/2022


Red/Blue Workshops try to bridge the political divide. Do they really work?

4/6/2022


A Glimpse Into a Fearful, Angry, Imaginary World

3/30/2022


The Best Way to End a Fight, According to Science: Take a Walk Together

3/8/2022


Political polarization prompts efforts to bridge the gap through shared experiences

1/10/2022


Bridging America's political divide with conversations, "One Small Step" at a time

1/9/2022


#70: Peter Coleman - "The Way Out"

12/15/2021


#92 - Is There A Way Out of Toxic Polarization?: A Dialogue with Peter Coleman

12/1/2021


C-SPAN Washington Journal Interview with Peter T Coleman on Navigating Toxic Polarization over the Holiday

11/25/2021


How To Save Thanksgiving: An Inside Look at Polarization & the Art of Conflict Resolution

11/23/2021


Books Driving Change: Peter Coleman and The Way Out

11/23/2021


Peter T. Coleman featured in the Wichita Eagle on “The One Small Step” Initiative

11/21/21


Peter T. Coleman interviewed for Columbia News piece, "Advice on how to Deal With Family Politics and COVID-19 Concerns This Thanksgiving”

11/17/21


Peter T. Coleman featured in article inThe Daily Beast: “How Covid Broke the Way We Respond to Crises”

11/13/21


Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Andrew Keen for the KeenOn talk show

10/29/21


Peter T. Coleman interviewed on Strategies for Living with David McMillian

10/13/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed on The Way Out for Solutions Journalism’s How Do We Fix It? Podcast

10/8/21


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Peter T. Coleman featured on The Frankie Boyer Show with BizTalk Podcasts

10/6/21


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The Way Out featured in Tim Shriver’s Weekly Email Newsletter for his initiative, UNITE

10/5/21


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Peter T. Coleman in Conversation with Susan Coleman—”Hurdles and Hope: Reflections on the Role of Gender”

10/3/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed for article inThe Guardian: “Don’t say ‘privilege’: can the left find better words for talking with people on the right?”

10/1/21


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Larry Rifkin for the America Trends Podcast about The Way Out

9/9/21


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The Way Out featured in interview with Canada’s The Globe and Mail

8/18/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Krys Boyd on KERA’s Think Podcast

8/16/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Dawn Newton for her Real Life, Real Talk Podcast

8/15/21


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Peter T. Coleman featured on Politics: A Love Story on KZYX Radio Mendocino

8/6/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Divided We Fall about The Way Out

8/6/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed on Kansas Public Radio about The Way Out

8/5/21


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Peter T. Coleman and The Way Out featured on the GET UP! podcast with Michael Causey

7/26/21


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The Way Out featured on Story Corps’ Blog

7/21/22


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The Way Out included as one of the Next Big Idea Club’s featured books of 2021

7/22/21


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The Way Out featured as one of the Next Big Idea Club’s list of 9 Books for Overcoming Our Divides

7/19/21


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The Way Out featured in The Wisconsin Examiner’s article: “Overcoming authoritarianism”

7/16/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed for the Mediate This podcast about The Way Out

7/16/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Louisville Forward Radio on WFMP about The Way Out

7/8/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed on KPCC’s Air Talk with Larry Mantle about The Way Out

7/8/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed for Top of Mind with Julie Rose on BYU Radio

7/1/21


Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Adrienne Lawrence of The Young Turks: “How to End Toxic Polarization”

6/30/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Joe Donahue for The Roundtable on WAMC Northeast Public Radio

6/30/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed on The Purple Principle podcast: “Embrace Complexity to Overcome Polarization?”

6/29/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed on Talk Cocktail with Jeff Schechtman: “The New Addiction to Outrage: Our American Psychosis”

6/28/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed on Strategies for Living with David McMillian

6/23/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed on Turning Pages with Guy Rathbun on Public Radio Exchange

6/22/21


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Peter T. Coleman featured on The Follow-Up Question: “Why complexity is critical to overcoming toxic polarization”

6/21/21


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Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Smart Thinking Books on his new book and his personal favorites

6/19/21


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The Way Out featured in article by Teachers College’s Newsroom: “How Can America Make Politics Less Hostile?”

6/17/21


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Blog Talk Radio’s Cyrus Webb on #ConversationsLIVE

6/17/21


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The Way Out featured in Behavioral Scientist: “Toxic Polarization Feeds on Simplicity. Peter Coleman Offers Complexity as a Way Out”

6/14/21


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The Way Out featured on Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List for 2021

6/7/21


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The Way Out featured by Indisputably: Linking Dispute Resolution Scholarship, Education, and Practice

6/5/21


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed byThe Jefferson Exchange on Jefferson Public Radio: Tired of Polarization? Here’s ‘The Way Out’

6/4/21


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed about The Way Out for Talk Louisiana with Jim Engster on WKRF

6/4/21


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Columbia News about his new book, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization

6/1/21


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Michigan’s WGVU Public Radio on his new book, The Way Out

6/1/21


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Tulsa Public Radio on new book, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization

6/1/21


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed in the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet Blog: Can We Escape the Vortex of Polarization?

5/17/21


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Peter T. Coleman and the Difficult Conversations Lab featured in Amanda Ripley’s new book, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped, and How We Get Out


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Peter T. Coleman featured on Let’s Find Common Ground Podcast

4/1/21


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Crisis Response Magazine about his new book, The Way Out

You can subscribe to Crisis Response at http://crisis-response.com/subscribe/.

3/23/21


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Peter T. Coleman’s predictions about the impact of Covid-19 revisited on Laura Joyce Davis’s podcast, Shelter in Place

3/18/21


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The Research of The Difficult Conversations Lab is Featured in Adam Grant’s New York Times #1 Bestselling Book: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know

See Chapter 8—Charged Conversations: Depolarizing Our Divided Discussions.


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Peter Coleman Interviewed by Newsweek: “Biden Must Mobilize Americans to Fight ‘Toxic Polarization’”

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

1/26/21


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Peter Coleman’s Conversation with Ruth DeFries Featured in Columbia Student News

1/21/21


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Navigating Uncertain Times: Peter Coleman in Conversation with Alex Halliday, Director of the Earth Institute, and Ruth DeFries, author of “What Would Nature Do? A Guide for Our Uncertain Times”

1/20/21


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Peter Coleman Interviewed by NPS’s Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson: “How Biden Might Tackle ‘Toxic Polarization’”


Photo by Eli Newman/WDET

1/19/21


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Peter Coleman Interviewed by Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter

photo by Shawn Thew

1/10/21


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Peter Coleman Interviewed about Political Polarization on Hearsay with Cathy Lewis

1/5/21


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Peter Coleman’s Advice Featured in Article in Parents: “How to Help Kids Handle Fights with Friends”

12/3/20


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Peter Coleman’s Advice Featured on the Attached Podcast’s Election Special

11/3/20


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Peter Coleman Interviewed in the NeuroLeadership Institute Podcast: “Building Bridges Over Deep Divides”

10/30/20


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Peter Coleman Interviewed for the Meet Me in the Middle Podcast

10/26/20


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Peter Coleman Featured in Editorial in Ireland’s The Independent

10/13/20


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Peter Coleman’s work featured in Shondaland:

Debating With an Open Mind and Friendly Spirit”

9/8/20


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Peter Coleman Featured in Columbia Magazine: “Healing the Red-Blue Divide”

Image by Celia Jacobs.

8/27/20


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Peter Coleman featured in Teachers College’s Newsroom: “

How the Left Can Use Diversity to Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’”

8/19/20


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Peter Coleman interviewed for Politico: “Does America Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?”

8/16/20


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Get Complicated: The Effects of Complexity on Conversations over Potentially Intractable Moral Conflicts

By Katharina G. Kugler and Peter T. Coleman, Published in Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, the peer reviewed journal of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM).

7/21/20


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Peter Coleman Interviewed for The New York Times Article: “

Talking With Relatives Across the Political Divide

6/14/20


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Peter Coleman Interviewed for Shondaland Article: “Constructive Ways to Deal with Conflict”

6/8/20


Peter Coleman Interviewed by Buzzfeed News on the Social Implications of COVID-19

5/8/20


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Peter Coleman Interviewed by French Publication, Ricochet, About the Impact of COVID-19 on Political Polarization

5/8/20


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Peter Coleman’s Ideas Part of Ongoing Dialogue on What will Come of the COVID-19 Crisis in The New Republic: “Bipartisanship Won’t Save Us”

5/6/20


Peter Coleman’s Work Featured in The Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board Commentary: “

The global jolt toward creative thinking”

5/1/20


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Peter Coleman Interviewed by Brazilian Magazine, Superinteressante, about the Post-COVID World

This article was originally published in Portuguese and is available in its original form on the Superinteressante website, as well as through this link. There is also an English version—roughly translated using Google Translate—which can be accessed using the button below.

Published in the May 2020 Issue of the magazine.


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Peter Coleman Quoted in The Denver Post Op-Ed: Despite Our Divide, Americans Will Choose Unity

The Op-Ed is written by Tom Cosgrove and Larry Andersen, who co-created “Divided We Fall: Unity Without Tragedy,” a documentary series featuring Americans working to bridge divides.

4/24/20


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Peter Coleman’s Work Part of Ongoing Dialogue on What We Can Expect to Come of this Time of Crisis

4/23/20


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Peter Coleman Featured on Light Up the Couch Podcast:

Navigating Conflict and Polarization in These Trying Times

4/23/20


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Peter Coleman Interviewed on NPR’s WDET Detroit’s Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson

4/13/20


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Peter Coleman featured by The Teachers College Newsroom as “A Voice for Our Times”

4/10/20


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Peter Coleman interviewed by The Fika Project on Polarization

4/10/20


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Peter Coleman featured on NPR’s HearSay with Cathy Lewis, on WHRO

4/8/20


Peter Coleman featured in Andres Oppenheimer’s Column in The Miami Herald

4/4/20


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Peter Coleman featured in Thomas B. Edsall’s column in The New York Times: “

Covid-19 Is Twisting 2020 Beyond All Recognition”

4/1/20


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Peter Coleman one of 34 thought leaders Interviewed for Politico’s Cover story: “Coronavirus will change the World Permanently. Here’s how.”

3/19/20


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Peter Coleman Featured on CNN’s Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter

12/1/2019


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Peter Coleman Featured on The Newsworthy Podcast: ‘Dealing with Difficult Political Conversations’

11/21/19


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Peter Coleman Interviewed by German Magazine Die Zeit about the Potentials Inherent in Times of Crisis

10/7/19


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Difficult Conversations Lab Featured in the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet Blog

9/28/19


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Peter T. Coleman and the Difficult Conversations Lab featured on Living Lab Radio

8/18/19


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Featured in The Optimist Daily:

Why difficult conversations can be transformative—even without a resolution

7/12/19


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Featured in Yes Magazine: Why Difficult Conversations Can Actually Be a Good Thing

7/11/19


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Featured in Berkeley’s Greater Good Magazine: How to Talk to a Political Opponent without Losing Your Cool

4/25/19


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Peter Coleman’s Research Featured in Denmark’s DR News

1/21/19


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Peter T. Coleman featured in BBC Brazil: “Como sobreviver ao jantar com a família no Natal pós-eleições? As dicas de um especialista em resolução de conflitos”

12/23/18


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Article in Brazilian Magazine Revisita Epoca featuring Peter Coleman

12/21/18


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Peter Coleman in Columbia News: “Social Psychologist Studies the Ins and outs of Navigating Conflict.”

12/20/18


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Featured in Wired:

You Won't Win the Thanksgiving Fight. But You Can Survive.

11/21/18


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Peter Coleman’s Work Critiqued in “The Angry Uncle Review” in Mother Jones

11/21/18


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Featured in The New York Times: How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Thanksgiving

11/20/18


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Peter Coleman interviewed for The Chicago Tribune

11/10/18


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Peter T. Coleman Interviewed for Peace Talks Radio: Finding Peace, Sustaining Peace

10/1/18


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Peter T. Coleman featured in Germany’s DIE ZEIT Magazine Article on Polarization and Difficult Conversations

9/20/18


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Difficult Conversations Lab Featured by Solutions Journalism

6/27/18


‘Difficult Conversations Lab’ Featured in The Guardian

6/27/18


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Peter T. Coleman Discusses the Boston Abortion Dialogues on This American Life

12/16/11