From climate change to armed conflict, our world is struggling with urgent global issues. But disagreements about how to solve them can spiral out of control.
The only way to resolve intractable conflicts is to overcome desire to talk to allies more often than opponents. Here, a social psychologist, two ecologists and a cartoonist explain the toolbox of communication we need to resolve difficult issues.
This article was written by Winnifred Louis, UQ School of Psychology; Leonie Seabrook, UQ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Jutta Beher, University of Melbourne; Darren C Fisher, Swinburne University of Technology. The original article was first published on The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
