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Amanda Ripley: High Conflict (2021, Simon & Schuster) 3 stars

impractically useful?

3 stars

Organized around several individuals' stories of intractable conflict (in local politics in California, in gang violence in Chicago, in post-rebel Colombia, in cultural exchange between US political factions) to relate to larger and smaller familiar scenes of us-vs-them in-group out-group binary simplification goaded by those who benefit from the conflict. For those looking for an answer to the larger problems, it is the same as for the smaller: active listening and complicating the narrative to give space and time for new perspectives. Yep.