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Teams from around the world will come together to learn, research, play and practice their collaborative skills. This is an opportunity for you to come together as a team and join others that are dedicated to deepening relationships, finding shared purpose, and enhancing group effectiveness.
Participants will be invited to join to a global research project to discern what is most needed at this critical time to create a more prosocial world.
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Research indicates that when sacred values and fused identities combine they create a potent mix.
Moral Rigidity Evolved to Strengthen Bonds Within Groups
Moral rigidity and its intimate link to in-group boundaries may have evolved so as to make us behave, and be seen, as trustworthy yet cautious team members in social environments mired by intergroup competition.
Why Religious Extremism is Maladaptive
Religious systems that lose their adaptability become dangerous to the societies in which they exist, and to themselves, because they absolutize the relative.
In the Eye of the Beholder: Parochial Altruism, Radicalization, and Extremism
Extremist Violence Has Its Roots in Morality, Not Ideology
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Why Terrorists Are Misunderstood
Although terrorism is often described as a form of communication, terrorists are rather poor communicators because the violence of terrorism is rarely understood by the public.
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of Terrorist Recruiters
The issue of recruitment, as opposed to just radicalization, is an undeniably important and neglected area of study.