Embracing difference: scenarios for identities, interests, conflict, violence, and cohabitation

New session of the "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series, with the participation of Adam Kahane (Reos Partners, Canada / Paris IAS Fellow).

Addressing important and difficult systemic challenges requires collaborating across deep differences, including of perspectives, positions, affiliations, interests, and identities. In many contexts, amplified by the polycrisis, such differences seem to be spreading, deepening, and hardening, and leading to increasingly violent and intractable conflicts at all scales. This project will outline multiple possible scenarios for the future of these dynamics, with a view to reframing and enriching options for enabling peaceful cohabitation.