An influx of migrants and immigrants into wealthier nations often creates and widens schisms between citizens of host countries.
Read MoreThe cultures of people living in urban vs. rural areas have come to represent two different value systems that don’t sufficiently harmonize.
Read MoreWhen peoples’ basic needs are unmet, high emotional states, including anxiety, depression and aggression can set in, causing and exacerbating conflicts.
Read MoreToday, we live in a world in which left-brain thinking is the dominant mode. However, history shows that healthier, less polarized and more vibrant societies are otherwise.
Read MoreAccording to several historians, polarization is one of the major symptoms of civilizational decline. How and why is this so?
Read MorePolitical polarization has no single cause. It arises from a combination of different factors and conditions.
Read MoreThe striving for dominance, to be top dog, is a key hinge upon which our history turns—and mutual respect is its antidote.
Read MoreIf Canadians and their leaders are to avoid further fragmentation, they need to move beyond deeply restricting notions of “left” and “right” in politics.
Read MoreKaliningrad, an isolated Russian enclave and province in Europe, is a point of vulnerability for both NATO and Moscow.
Read MoreThe current debate as to who is at fault in Ukraine, Russia or NATO, is crippled by either/or thinking.
Read MoreHealthier Middle Eastern societies can result when the dynamic between belonging and being an individual is viewed comprehensively—not a victory of one over another.
Read MoreWhen emotionally aroused, the human mind focuses so intensely on the object in question that all dissenting information is devalued and excluded.
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