PRESS COVERAGE OF DR. PETER T. COLEMAN’S WORK INTHE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS LAB AND THE WAY OUT
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
Peter T. Coleman interviewed on The Way Out for Solutions Journalism’s How Do We Fix It? Podcast
10/8/21
Peter T. Coleman featured on The Frankie Boyer Show with BizTalk Podcasts
10/6/21
The Way Out featured in Tim Shriver’s Weekly Email Newsletter for his initiative, UNITE
10/5/21
Peter T. Coleman in Conversation with Susan Coleman—”Hurdles and Hope: Reflections on the Role of Gender”
10/3/21
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
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Larry Rifkin for the America Trends Podcast about The Way Out
9/9/21
The Way Out featured in interview with Canada’s The Globe and Mail
8/18/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Krys Boyd on KERA’s Think Podcast
8/16/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Dawn Newton for her Real Life, Real Talk Podcast
8/15/21
Peter T. Coleman featured on Politics: A Love Story on KZYX Radio Mendocino
8/6/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Divided We Fall about The Way Out
8/6/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed on Kansas Public Radio about The Way Out
8/5/21
Peter T. Coleman and The Way Out featured on the GET UP! podcast with Michael Causey
7/26/21
The Way Out featured on Story Corps’ Blog
7/21/22
The Way Out included as one of the Next Big Idea Club’s featured books of 2021
7/22/21
The Way Out featured as one of the Next Big Idea Club’s list of 9 Books for Overcoming Our Divides
7/19/21
The Way Out featured in The Wisconsin Examiner’s article: “Overcoming authoritarianism”
7/16/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed for the Mediate This podcast about The Way Out
7/16/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Louisville Forward Radio on WFMP about The Way Out
7/8/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed on KPCC’s Air Talk with Larry Mantle about The Way Out
7/8/21
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
Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Joe Donahue for The Roundtable on WAMC Northeast Public Radio
6/30/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed on The Purple Principle podcast: “Embrace Complexity to Overcome Polarization?”
6/29/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed on Talk Cocktail with Jeff Schechtman: “The New Addiction to Outrage: Our American Psychosis”
6/28/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed on Strategies for Living with David McMillian
6/23/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed on Turning Pages with Guy Rathbun on Public Radio Exchange
6/22/21
Peter T. Coleman featured on The Follow-Up Question: “Why complexity is critical to overcoming toxic polarization”
6/21/21
Peter T. Coleman interviewed by Smart Thinking Books on his new book and his personal favorites
6/19/21
The Way Out featured in article by Teachers College’s Newsroom: “How Can America Make Politics Less Hostile?”
6/17/21
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Blog Talk Radio’s Cyrus Webb on #ConversationsLIVE
6/17/21
The Way Out featured in Behavioral Scientist: “Toxic Polarization Feeds on Simplicity. Peter Coleman Offers Complexity as a Way Out”
6/14/21
The Way Out featured on Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List for 2021
6/7/21
The Way Out featured by Indisputably: Linking Dispute Resolution Scholarship, Education, and Practice
6/5/21
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed byThe Jefferson Exchange on Jefferson Public Radio: Tired of Polarization? Here’s ‘The Way Out’
6/4/21
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed about The Way Out for Talk Louisiana with Jim Engster on WKRF
6/4/21
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Columbia News about his new book, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
6/1/21
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Michigan’s WGVU Public Radio on his new book, The Way Out
6/1/21
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Tulsa Public Radio on new book, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
6/1/21
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed in the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet Blog: Can We Escape the Vortex of Polarization?
5/17/21
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
Peter T. Coleman featured on Let’s Find Common Ground Podcast
4/1/21
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed by Crisis Response Magazine about his new book, The Way Out
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3/23/21
Peter T. Coleman’s predictions about the impact of Covid-19 revisited on Laura Joyce Davis’s podcast, Shelter in Place
3/18/21
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.
Peter Coleman Interviewed by Newsweek: “Biden Must Mobilize Americans to Fight ‘Toxic Polarization’”
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
1/26/21
Peter Coleman’s Conversation with Ruth DeFries Featured in Columbia Student News
1/21/21
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
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
Peter Coleman Interviewed by Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter
photo by Shawn Thew
1/10/21
Peter Coleman Interviewed about Political Polarization on Hearsay with Cathy Lewis
1/5/21
Peter Coleman’s Advice Featured in Article in Parents: “How to Help Kids Handle Fights with Friends”
12/3/20
Peter Coleman’s Advice Featured on the Attached Podcast’s Election Special
11/3/20
Peter Coleman Interviewed in the NeuroLeadership Institute Podcast: “Building Bridges Over Deep Divides”
10/30/20
Peter Coleman Interviewed for the Meet Me in the Middle Podcast
10/26/20
Peter Coleman Featured in Editorial in Ireland’s The Independent
10/13/20
Peter Coleman’s work featured in Shondaland: “
Debating With an Open Mind and Friendly Spirit”
9/8/20
Peter Coleman Featured in Columbia Magazine: “Healing the Red-Blue Divide”
Image by Celia Jacobs.
8/27/20
Peter Coleman featured in Teachers College’s Newsroom: “
How the Left Can Use Diversity to Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’”
8/19/20
Peter Coleman interviewed for Politico: “Does America Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?”
8/16/20
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
Peter Coleman Interviewed for The New York Times Article: “
Talking With Relatives Across the Political Divide”
6/14/20
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
Peter Coleman Interviewed by French Publication, Ricochet, About the Impact of COVID-19 on Political Polarization
5/8/20
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
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.
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
Peter Coleman’s Work Part of Ongoing Dialogue on What We Can Expect to Come of this Time of Crisis
4/23/20
Peter Coleman Featured on Light Up the Couch Podcast:
Navigating Conflict and Polarization in These Trying Times
4/23/20
Peter Coleman Interviewed on NPR’s WDET Detroit’s Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
4/13/20
Peter Coleman featured by The Teachers College Newsroom as “A Voice for Our Times”
4/10/20
Peter Coleman interviewed by The Fika Project on Polarization
4/10/20
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
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
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
Peter Coleman Featured on CNN’s Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter
12/1/2019
Peter Coleman Featured on The Newsworthy Podcast: ‘Dealing with Difficult Political Conversations’
11/21/19
Peter Coleman Interviewed by German Magazine Die Zeit about the Potentials Inherent in Times of Crisis
10/7/19
Difficult Conversations Lab Featured in the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet Blog
9/28/19
Peter T. Coleman and the Difficult Conversations Lab featured on Living Lab Radio
8/18/19
Featured in The Optimist Daily:
Why difficult conversations can be transformative—even without a resolution
7/12/19
Featured in Yes Magazine: Why Difficult Conversations Can Actually Be a Good Thing
7/11/19
Featured in Berkeley’s Greater Good Magazine: How to Talk to a Political Opponent without Losing Your Cool
4/25/19
Peter Coleman’s Research Featured in Denmark’s DR News
1/21/19
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
Article in Brazilian Magazine Revisita Epoca featuring Peter Coleman
12/21/18
Peter Coleman in Columbia News: “Social Psychologist Studies the Ins and outs of Navigating Conflict.”
12/20/18
Featured in Wired:
You Won't Win the Thanksgiving Fight. But You Can Survive.
11/21/18
Peter Coleman’s Work Critiqued in “The Angry Uncle Review” in Mother Jones
11/21/18
Featured in The New York Times: How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Thanksgiving
11/20/18
Peter Coleman interviewed for The Chicago Tribune
11/10/18
Peter T. Coleman Interviewed for Peace Talks Radio: Finding Peace, Sustaining Peace
10/1/18
Peter T. Coleman featured in Germany’s DIE ZEIT Magazine Article on Polarization and Difficult Conversations
9/20/18
Difficult Conversations Lab Featured by Solutions Journalism
6/27/18
‘Difficult Conversations Lab’ Featured in The Guardian
6/27/18
Peter T. Coleman Discusses the Boston Abortion Dialogues on This American Life
12/16/11