Comments on: Radicalizing Tensions http://cwis.org/FWE/2009/11/30/radicalizing-tensions/ An Online Daily Journal of the Center for World Indigenous Studies Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay Taber http://cwis.org/FWE/2009/11/30/radicalizing-tensions/#comment-81 Jay Taber Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:13:05 +0000 http://cwis.org/FWE/2009/11/30/radicalizing-tensions/#comment-81 As things fall apart, it becomes easier to mobilize resentment around economic and religious themes. The key in combatting fearmongering, though, is in the model used to frame social conflict. In my experience, the public health model is the most effective, but few activists use it. I wrote a related pamphlet http://www.scribd.com/doc/15571303/Walking-Around-Ideas about the challenge of maintaining multiculturalism in the US. As things fall apart, it becomes easier to mobilize resentment around economic and religious themes. The key in combatting fearmongering, though, is in the model used to frame social conflict. In my experience, the public health model is the most effective, but few activists use it.

I wrote a related pamphlet http://www.scribd.com/doc/15571303/Walking-Around-Ideas about the challenge of maintaining multiculturalism in the US.

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