Dialogue — Thinking Together is a section of Lee Beaumont's Emotional Competency website. Here you will find an excellent review of the conditions that lead to productive dialogue.

Global Sensemaking: Tools for Dialogue and Deliberation on Wicked Problems "Global Sensemaking (GSm) is a group of people dedicated to helping humanity address complex, interrelated global problems-such as climate change, energy policy, poverty, and food security-by developing and applying new web-based technology to assist collaborative decision making and cooperative problem solving."

Us and Them: Relating to Challenging Others — patterns in the shadow dance between "good" and "evil" This essay by Anthony Judge focuses on the Us-and-Them polarization problem and suggests some approaches for getting past it that seem worth exploring.

Wanted: A New Worldview by Alan Nordstrom. A short but to-the-point essay that asks, "What view of reality will let us live most fruitfully as human beings in a just and generous community with each other?"

The Dance of Polarization by Andrew Bard Schmookler. In this essay Schmookler deals with the polarization-integrating aspect of wisdom.

Dialogue Instead of Debate: Cutting Through Ideological Polarization. Some thoughts on this subject by Copthorne Macdonald plus links to organizations with active programs to address the problem.