UNUM Digital Series: "The Way Out" with Dr. Peter Coleman

Columbia University’s Dr. Peter T. Coleman will be joining us Thursday, September 7th at 7 pm ET via Zoom and Facebook Live to discuss how to find our way out of toxic polarization, his book “The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization” and the “Starts With Us” initiative.

Toxic polarization and conflict are exhausting. Whether  in your family, at work or in our perpetually acrimonious civic life, it’s a like a suitcase full of big ole rocks we lug around while we try to get the usual tasks of life-y-ness done. Our UNUM journey has brought us thinkers and leaders from sea to shining sea, but now we’re turning intentionally to see THE WAY OUT — and it turns out that really being able to see it is a key first step in being able to do it.

Peter Coleman brings us deep wisdom informed by his life in scholarship that leaves us more hopeful than the usual fare.

Dr. Peter T. Coleman is Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University where he holds a joint-appointment at Teachers College and The Earth Institute. Dr. Coleman directs the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution. He is a renowned expert on conflict resolution and sustainable peace. Dr. Coleman’s current research focuses on conflict intelligence and systemic wisdom for navigating conflict constructively across all levels (from families to companies to communities to nations), and includes projects on adaptive negotiation and mediation dynamics, cross-cultural adaptivity, optimality dynamics in conflict, justice and polarization, multicultural conflict, intractable conflict, and sustainable peace.